Salisbury Hospice Charity Limited

Registered charity 1123314 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SALISBURY HOSPICE, SALISBURY HOSPICE CHARITY, SALISBURY HOSPICECARE TRUST LIMITED

The charity provides financial support for the Palliative Care Service based at Salisbury Hospice, and for the relief of suffering in cancer and other terminal illness and the promotion of related research. The aim of the charity is to contribute to the funding of a full range of palliative care services from Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £105,300 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by a £31,301 unrealised loss on investments. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £3,688,378, which is above the stated policy target range of £2,086,320 to £2,306,980, providing a surplus to maintain future service contributions.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Fawcetts LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06525170

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Salisbury Hospice Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Nikki Spicer — Chair of the Board (source)
• Tom Goodinge — Director of Fundraising & Marketing (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.

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.

• RANABOLDO, Jane — director, appointed 16/03/2026on trustee list
• FREEMANTLE, Patricia Mary — director, appointed 16/03/2026on trustee list
• BIRT, Carina — director, appointed 16/03/2026on trustee list
• BRAZIER, John Graham — director, appointed 21/07/2025on trustee list
• JENKINS, Peter David — director, appointed 15/07/2024on trustee list
• SPICER, Nicola Ann — director, appointed 23/02/2017on trustee list
• MERRILL, Mark — director, appointed 15/09/2016on trustee list
• SYKES, Stella Valentine Margaret — director, appointed 28/05/2014on trustee list
• PARDOE, David Hugh Charles — director, appointed 20/02/2014on trustee list
• DOWNIE, Ian Peter — director, appointed 10/02/2010on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~12.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 24.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/03/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carina Birt
• DAVID HUGH CHARLES PARDOE · trustee of 1 other charity
• IAN PETER DOWNIE
• Jane Ranaboldo
• John Graham Brazier
• MARK MERRILL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicola Ann Spicer
• Patricia Mary Freemantle
• Peter David Jenkins
• STELLA VALENTINE MARGARET SYKES

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Carina Birt — trustee here and at Salisbury Hospice Charity Limited
• DAVID HUGH CHARLES PARDOE — trustee here and at Salisbury Hospice Charity Limited
• IAN PETER DOWNIE — trustee here and at Salisbury Hospice Charity Limited
• Jane Ranaboldo — trustee here and at Salisbury Hospice Charity Limited
• John Graham Brazier — trustee here and at Salisbury Hospice Charity Limited
• MARK MERRILL — trustee here and at Salisbury Hospice Charity Limited
• Nicola Ann Spicer — trustee here and at Salisbury Hospice Charity Limited
• Patricia Mary Freemantle — trustee here and at Salisbury Hospice Charity Limited
• Peter David Jenkins — trustee here and at Salisbury Hospice Charity Limited
• STELLA VALENTINE MARGARET SYKES — trustee here and at Salisbury Hospice Charity Limited

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SALISBURY DISTRICT HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FUND.

• SALISBURY DISTRICT HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FUND income £3.3m
• SALISBURY TRUST FOR THE HOMELESS LTD income £406k
• ST MICHAEL'S HOSPICE (INCORPORATING THE FREDA PEARCE FOUNDATION) income £12.8m
• WIGAN AND LEIGH HOSPICE income £7.2m
• CICELY SAUNDERS INTERNATIONAL income £424k
• ST RICHARDS HOSPICE FOUNDATION income £10.6m

Side by side with its peers

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