KEMP HOSPICE

Registered charity 1146310 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KEMP HOUSE TRUST LTD

KEMP Hospice provides palliative care, compassionate support and practical help to people and their families in the Wyre Forest and surrounding areas who are affected by life limiting illnesses. This is achieved through the provision of a wide range of multidisciplinary services which treat the individual and family holistically.

Objects

TO PROVIDE CLINICAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL CARE WITH PRACTICAL SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE, THEIR FAMILIES, CARERS AND THE WIDER COMMUNITY WHO MAY BE AFFECTED BY SERIOUS AND LIFE LIMITING ILLNESS WITHIN WORCESTERSHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £113,664 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income rising to £2,210,979. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £1,632,312, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their policy target of 6 to 18 months of anticipated expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. 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
• 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
• 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

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

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~12.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 48.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (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).

• KEMP Hospice: Good (16/02/2026) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Geoff Taylor-Smithchair
• Janet Anne Rowe
• Katie Elizabeth Collyer
• Laura Nash
• Ruth Mayall
• Sarah Dugan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Suzanne Beattie
• Zena Dalton

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KEMP HOUSE TRUST.

• KEMP HOUSE TRUST income £108k
• DR KERSHAW'S HOSPICE income £6.0m
• ST KENTIGERN HOSPICE income £3.9m
• PILGRIMS HOSPICES IN EAST KENT income £18.9m
• HOSPICE IN THE WEALD income £15.9m
• WILLEN HOSPICE income £11.4m

Side by side with its peers

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