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.

Objects

The Objects of the Charity are for the public benefit and specifically restricted as follows: TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE CHARITY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT in particular, but not exclusively, by:1 establishing, maintaining and conducting a respite care centre and hospice to be known as Lewis-Manning Hospice Care;2 establishing, maintaining and conducting other hospitals, residential nursing homes and clinics in England or Wales for the reception and care of persons who are suffering from any illness, disability, disease or other infirmity whether physical or mental and by providing medical or other treatment and attention for any such persons as aforesaid;3 promoting or assisting in the education, teaching, or training of healthcare professionals;4 conducting or promoting research into the care and treatment of persons suffering from any illness, disability, disease or infirmity and particularly into the care and treatment of persons suffering from cancer or terminal illnesses and to disseminate the results thereof to the public; 5 promoting or assisting in the provision of spiritual help and guidance to improve the wellbeing and quality of life of any persons resident (whether as day patients or otherwise) or working in any such centre, hospice, hospital or home as aforesaid.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE DORSET

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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 · Financial health read from its filings
• 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)

15 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 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (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
• 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 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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WIGAN AND LEIGH HOSPICE.

• WIGAN AND LEIGH HOSPICE income £7.2m
• HOSPICE AT HOME CARLISLE AND NORTH LAKELAND income £2.0m
• ASHGATE HOSPICECARE income £15.6m
• PENDLESIDE HOSPICE income £5.7m
• DR KERSHAW'S HOSPICE income £6.0m
• LINDSEY LODGE LIMITED income £5.0m

Side by side with its peers

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