Priscilla Bacon Hospice Charity

Registered charity 1166579 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PRISCILLA BACON NORFOLK HOSPICE CARE LTD

The object of the Charity is to promote the relief of persons who are suffering from any chronic or terminal illness or any disability or disease attributable to old age or from any other physical or mental infirmity disability or disease and of families of such persons in such ways as the organisation shall from time to time think fit.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM ANY CHRONIC OR TERMINAL ILLNESS OR ANY DISABILITY OR DISEASE ATTRIBUTABLE TO OLD AGE OR FROM ANY OTHER PHYSICAL OR MENTAL INFIRMITY DISABILITY OR DISEASE AND OF THE FAMILIES OF SUCH PERSONS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE ORGANISATION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Norfolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £2,284,432 from £3,130,058 in the prior year, while total expenditure increased to £2,411,090, resulting in a net decrease in funds of £102,813. The charity holds unrestricted funds of £3,050,927, which exceeds its stated reserves policy target of £1,220,000 (equivalent to six months of operating costs). The auditors confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Larking Gowen LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2024) to £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 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
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 — Priscilla Bacon Hospice Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Fearn Hambling — Chief Executive (source)
• Andrew Barnes MBE — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Lynda McElligott — Head of Operations (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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~14.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 56.7% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Jonathon Barneschair
• Francesca Underhill
• James Ellis
• Justin Jolyon Peter Ripman
• Kristian Bowles
• LADY SUSAN BACON
• Linda Roberts
• Mark Proctor
• Maureen Carson Seale
• Philip Gormley

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

Common questions

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 HOUSING INDEPENDENT PEOPLE.

• HOUSING INDEPENDENT PEOPLE income £44k
• HALTON HAVEN HOSPICE income £2.7m
• BOLTON HOSPICE income £7.3m
• THE PATRICIA BEECHAM CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT income £25k
• HOSPICE AID UK income £115k
• PRISCILLA BACON LODGE SUPPORT GROUP income £59k

Side by side with its peers

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