MOUNTBATTEN HAMPSHIRE LIMITED

Registered charity 1123304 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COUNTESS MOUNTBATTEN HOSPICE CHARITY, COUNTESS MOUNTBATTEN HOSPICE CHARITY LIMITED

The provision of palliative care.

Objects

The objects of the Charity (“the Objects”) are:a) The relief, care and treatment of sickness and those who are sick (including, but not limited to, those diagnosed with a terminal or life-limiting condition and the elderly) through the provision of hospice care, short-term residential care, in-patient and out-patient services, and at-home support, and such other wholly charitable means as the trustees think fit;b) The provision of activities, facilities, support and services for:i. such individuals who may receive relief, care and treatment under object (a);ii. the families and carers of such individuals who may relief, care and treatment under object (a); andiii. the benefit of the public in the interests of social welfare with the objects of improving their condition of life;both before and after bereavement, including (without limitation): providing information and advice to encourage open discourse about attitudes towards death, dying and bereavement , psychotherapy and counselling, and other activities and facilities to promote and support mental and emotional health and wellbeing, including communal activities such as a community choir, mental health support groups, and the provision of religious and non-religious services including provision of space for quiet contemplation; andc) The advancement of palliative care through the provision of funds and facilities for research, educational facilities and training in the field of palliative care and related fields of study.

Area of benefit: SOUTHAMPTON

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

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

Registered contact address: Eastleigh, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity produced a deficit of £157k for the year, a significant improvement from the prior year's £1,071k. Unrestricted reserves decreased to £162,385, which management notes is less than one month of budgeted expenditure, significantly below their policy target of nine to twelve months. Despite this low reserve position, the trustees and auditor confirm the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis, supported by controls and formal support from the group holding company.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services Limited. Discloses 5 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Mountbatten Hampshire Ltd (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sir Ian Cheshire — Chair of Trustees (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 18.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/02/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Charles Neill · trustee of 1 other charity
• Angela Sarene Anne Anderson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Barbara Halliday · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charalambous Louis Panayi · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dean Barry Kirby · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr John Sichel · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Tim Peachey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kate Collins · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Acland · trustee of 2 other charities
• Moraig Forrest-Charde
• Sir Ian Cheshire
• Vicky Hastings · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Southampton City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MOUNTBATTEN ISLE OF WIGHT.

• MOUNTBATTEN ISLE OF WIGHT income £17.9m
• WILLOWBROOK HOSPICE income £6.3m
• ROYAL TRINITY HOSPICE income £17.8m
• HAMPSHIRE HOSPITALS CHARITY income £821k
• THE ASSOCIATION FOR PALLIATIVE MEDICINE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND income £483k
• MH GEMACH income £42k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.