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.

Objects

3.1TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING(SO FAR AS SUCH PURPOSE IS CHARITABLE) IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF SUCH OBJECT)311BY ESTABLISHING MAINTAINING AND PROVIDING HOSPICE CARE AND HOME CARE SERVICES FOR THE RECEPTION AND CARE OF PERSONS OF EITHER SEX (WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE OR CREED) WHO ARE SUFFERING (AT ANY AGE) FROM ANY CHRONIC OR TERMINAL ILLNESS OR FROM ANY DISABILITY OR DISEASE ATTRIBUTABLE TO OLD AGE OR FROM ANY OTHER PHYSICAL OR MENTAL INFIRMITY DISABILITY OR DISEASE AND BY PROVIDING MEDICAL OR OTHER TREATMENT AND ATTENTION FOR ANY SUCH PERSONS AS AFORESAID IN THEIR OWN HOMES312 BY CONDUCTING OR PROMOTING OR ENCOURAGING RESEARCH INTO THE CARE AND TREATMENT OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM ANY SUCH ILLNESS DISABILITY, DISEASE OR INFIRMITY AS AFORESAID AND PARTICULARLY INTO THE CARE AND TREATMENT OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM CANCER OR TERMINAL ILLNESSES313BY PROVIDING BEREAVEMENT COUNSELLING SERVICES FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE THE BEREAVEMENT CONCERNS A PATIENT TREATED BY THE CHARITY314 BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN OR ENCOURAGING THE PROVISION OF SPIRITUAL HELP AND GUIDANCE FOR3141 PERSONS SUFFERING FROM ANY SUCH ILLNESS DISABILITY DISEASE OR INFIRMITY AS AFORESAID WHETHER RECEIVING CARE AND/OR TREATMENT AT A HOSPICE RESIDENTIAL HOME OR IN THEIR OWN HOMES3142 THE FAMILIES OF SUCH PERSONS AND3143 THE CARERS OF SUCH PERSONS AND315BY PROVIDING CARE SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE TO THE CARERS AND FAMILY OF PATIENTS TREATED BY THE CHARITY IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY THINKS FIT

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED IN PRACTICE WILTSHIRE

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £538,764 for the year ended 31 March 2026, driven by strong legacy income. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £2,472,365 fall within the stated policy target range of £2,388,529 to £2,610,293, which is based on six to nine months of running costs. The charity has designated £1.9 million to cover a contractual five-year commitment to increase its grant to the hospice service.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2025) → 1 (FY2026).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2025) to "within" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

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.

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

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 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 24.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (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

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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
• BURY HOSPICE income £4.8m
• HOSPICE AID UK income £115k
• BARNSLEY HOSPICE APPEAL income £4.8m
• ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (HARROW AND BRENT) LTD income £13.0m
• HALTON HAVEN HOSPICE income £2.7m

Side by side with its peers

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