BURY HOSPICE

Registered charity 1136843 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The advancement of health for the public benefit by maintaining a Hospice and services for the relief of pain, the treatment of symptoms and the spiritual welfare of those requiring palliative care.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY MAINTAINING AND MANAGING A HOSPICE AND SERVICES FOR THE RELIEF OF PAIN, THE TREATMENT OF SYMPTOMS AND THE SPIRITUAL WELFARE OF THOSE REQUIRING PALLIATIVE CARE.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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: Bury, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £54,698 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £5.90m, with a designated Continuity Fund of £1.9m, which is below the stated policy target of six months' budgeted costs (£2.35m). The current ratio was reported as 3.5, indicating sufficient short-term liquidity.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. 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)

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 — Bury Hospice (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Stuart Richardson — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Jenny Gallagher — Director of Clinical Services (source)
• Jane Banks — Associate Director of Quality and Corporate 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles 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.

CQC provider record: Bury Hospice — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 26/02/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 41.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 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).

• Bury Hospice: Good (03/01/2025) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/03/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Holland
• Clare Lomax
• David Cohen
• David Kevin Jones
• Devin Cassidy
• Donna McNicoll
• Jane Stevens
• Nicola Caffrey
• Paul Horrocks
• Stuart Page
• Tom Postlethwaite

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

Operates in: Bury

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOSPICE AID UK.

• HOSPICE AID UK income £115k
• HOSPICE UK income £34.1m
• AGE UK BURY income £782k
• Salisbury Hospice Charity Limited income £2.7m
• ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (HARROW AND BRENT) LTD income £13.0m
• BURY SOCIETY FOR BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED income £181k

Side by side with its peers

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