LEWIS-MANNING HOSPICE CARE

Registered charity 1120193 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEWIS-MANNING HOSPICE, THE LEWIS-MANNING TRUST

The Lewis-Manning Hospice offers palliative care for local people living with cancer and some other life threatening illnesses. The services offered by the hospice are day hospice, lymphoedema clinic and breathlessness clinic.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated deficit of £262,279 for the year ended 31 March 2025, a reversal from the previous year's surplus. Total net assets decreased to £3,174,375, with unrestricted general reserves standing at £1,455,601, which the trustees consider to be in line with their policy of holding 6 to 9 months of operating costs. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: LEWIS-MANNING HOSPICE CARE (RETAIL) LIMITED Companies House 02734333
• Trading subsidiary: LEWIS-MANNING HOSPICE CARE (LOTTERY) LIMITED Companies House 04481834
• Trading subsidiary: LEWIS-MANNING HOSPICE CARE (FURNITURE WAREHOUSE) LIMITED Companies House 05216874
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06278709

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Lewis-Manning Hospice Care (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Clare Gallie — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Susan Newcombe — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Nicki Cluley — Director of Fundraising, Marketing and Communications (source)
• Laura Adams — Director of Clinical Services (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• NFU Mutual Bournemouth — “NFU Mutual Bournemouth has launched a new community partnership with Dorset’s independent hospice charity, Lewis-Manning Hospice Care to hel…” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SHERWOOD, Gareth John, Dr — director, appointed 16/12/2025on trustee list
• BUFTON, Cecilia Mary — director, appointed 25/09/2025on trustee list
• THURSFIELD, Alice Josey — director, appointed 28/08/2025on trustee list
• ANDREWS, Nathaniel — director, appointed 10/06/2025on trustee list
• SMEATON, Kate, Dr. — director, appointed 16/09/2024on trustee list
• BARR, Lewis William — director, appointed 23/05/2024on trustee list
• BARON, Susan Elizabeth Mary, Dr. — director, appointed 11/04/2024on trustee list
• GOODSON, Timothy Mark — director, appointed 30/11/2022on trustee list
• LUNE, Jeremy Michael — director, appointed 19/11/2020on trustee list
• MCDONALD, David Alexander — director, appointed 19/11/2020on trustee list
• MARSHALL, Ian — director, appointed 23/11/2017not on trustee list
• LEE, Timothy — director, appointed 27/07/2017on trustee list
• JEFFRIES, Harry Michael — secretary, appointed 25/02/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

14 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £1.2m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Lewis-Manning Hospice Care — Registered, 3 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 22/11/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Lewis-Manning Hospice Care: Good (30/01/2023) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alice Josey Thursfield
• Cecilia Bufton
• David Alexander McDonald
• Dr Gareth John Sherwood
• Dr Kate Smeaton
• Dr Susan Elizabeth Mary Baron
• IAN MARSHALL OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jeremy Lune
• Lewis William Barr
• Nathaniel Andrews
• Timothy Lee
• Timothy Mark Goodson

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Hampshire · Poole

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Rowans Hospice.

• Rowans Hospice income £10.7m
• ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (HARROW AND BRENT) LTD income £13.0m
• WESTON HOSPICECARE LIMITED income £6.2m
• PILGRIMS HOSPICES IN EAST KENT income £18.9m
• HOSPICE AT HOME CARLISLE AND NORTH LAKELAND income £2.0m
• WILLEN HOSPICE income £11.8m

Side by side with its peers

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