SEATON AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL LEAGUE OF FRIENDS

Registered charity 1146357 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SEATON AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL LEAGUE OF FRIENDS LTD, SEATON HOSPITAL LEAGUE OF FIENDS, SEATON HOSPITAL LEAGUE OF FRIENDS

To relieve patients & former patients of Seaton hospital, and others in the community, who are sick, convalescent, disabled, handicapped, infirm or in need of assistance. Generally to support the charitable work of the hospital by the provision of equipment and similar items to enhance the lot of the patients therein.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £254,226 for the year ended 30 September 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £4,897,917 to £4,643,691. The trustees consider the total reserves of £4,643,691 to be prudent, noting that £600,000 is required annually for the Hospice @ Home service and £325,000 should be retained as free reserves. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Westcotts (SW) LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02557203

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.

• HAMNETT, Janette — director, appointed 18/04/2024on trustee list
• SPENCER, Lesley Jane — director, appointed 26/07/2023on trustee list
• HITCHCOCK, Julia Anne — director, appointed 11/11/2020on trustee list
• HEYS, Sheila Elizabeth — director, appointed 26/04/2017on trustee list
• ROWE, Carol — director, appointed 13/04/2016on trustee list
• WELLAND, Mark Julian, Dr — director, appointed 26/03/2014on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Shirley Madelaine — director, appointed 17/04/2012not on trustee list
• ROWE, Carol — secretary, appointed 25/04/2018

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~114.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/06/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lesley Jane Spencerchair
• Carol Rowe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Mark Julian Welland
• Emma Cox
• Janette Hamnett
• Julia Hitchcock
• Nick Eul-Barker
• Sheila Heys
• Steve Taylor

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF HORSHAM HOSPITAL.

• THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF HORSHAM HOSPITAL income £165k
• THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF THE BEXHILL HOSPITAL CIO income £305k
• THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS TO THE ROBERT JONES & AGNES HUNT ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL income £882k
• LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST income £335k
• LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF THE KING'S LYNN AREA HOSPITALS income £258k
• LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF THE QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER HOSPITAL income £164k

Side by side with its peers

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