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.

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Latest income
£4.8m
Latest spending
£4.7m
Registered
2010
Accounts read
FY2025

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

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £5.9m; policy: six months total budgeted costs)
“The target of six months budgeted costs based on these accounts equates to £2.35m and the actual balance of the Continuity Fund at 31 March 2025 was £1.9m” — page 15
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Bury Hospice Trading Limited
“There is one wholly owned subsidiary, Bury Hospice Trading Limited, which runs a weekly lottery and gift aids its profits annually to the Charity.” — page 7
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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 (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)

Total income
£4.8m
Total spending
£4.7m
Cost of raising funds
£2.0m
Reserves (reported)
£1.9m
Employees
111

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 41.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Bury

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£4.8m£4.7m
31/03/2024£3.7m£4.5m
31/03/2023£3.9m£3.8m
31/03/2022£4.2m£3.4m
31/03/2021£2.9m£2.9m

Common questions

Is BURY HOSPICE financially healthy?

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. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by MHA.

Who funds BURY HOSPICE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BURY HOSPICE as a grant recipient include THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED, THE INLIGHT TRUST, BAIN CHARITABLE TRUST, The Cranswick Charitable Trust, SKIPTON BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

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 ISABEL HOSPICE LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
BURY HOSPICE£4.8m——below—no doubt
ISABEL HOSPICE LIMITED FY2025£10.4m——above—no doubt
GREENWICH AND BEXLEY COMMUNITY HOSPICE LIMITED FY2025£13.3m£120,000 - £129,999—unclear—no doubt
HOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD LTD FY2025£6.1m—0above32.0%no doubt
ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (HARROW AND BRENT) LTD FY2025£13.0m——above—no doubt
HOSPICE AID UK FY2025£115k—0unclear—no doubt

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