BEEHIVE CARE GROUP

Registered charity 1204867 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BEEHIVE CARE

Services for adults over 50yrs who require assistance with activities of daily living. These include assistance in their own homes through our Support at Home team, residential care at our care home Cornwell House, extra care living at Old School House, respite care based at Cornwell House, companion services, day services, dementia care and support services delivered through our Dementia Hub.

Objects

THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT FOR THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS:1 THE RELIEF AND CARE OF ELDERLY PERSONS LIVING WITH THE DISABILITIES OF OLD AGE OR OTHERWISE BEING IN NEED, INCLUDING BY THE PROVISION AND MANAGEMENT OF CHARITABLE SOCIAL HOUSING AND/OR RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES AND/OR SUPPORT AT HOME. IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS, BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE CHARITY MAY:(A) PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN, OR ASSIST IN PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING, CHARITABLE SOCIAL HOUSING AND/OR RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES AND/ OR HOSTELS FOR SUCH ELDERLY PERSONS; AND (B) PROVIDE, OR ASSIST IN PROVIDING, CARE, SUPPORT, AMENITIES OR SERVICES FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH ELDERLY PERSONS. 2 SUCH OTHER PURPOSES RECOGNISED BY ENGLISH LAW AS CHARITABLE AS THE CHARITY SHALL DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME.

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

Causes: Disability · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net operating loss of £229,854 for the year ended 31 October 2025, a significant reversal from the prior year's surplus. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves were £34,997, which is below the stated policy target of £505,000 (three months of core running costs). The trustees acknowledge the challenging care landscape but assert the charity remains in a strong financial position with no material uncertainty regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hodson & Co. 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
• 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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jacqui Swindells — CEO (source)
• Tammy Townsend — Chief Operating Officer (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 (3 freehold); recorded price paid £1.7m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Beehive Care Group — Registered, 4 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 09/04/2021. CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (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).

• Cornwell House, Beehive Care: Good (05/06/2019) · CQC record
• Support at Home, Beehive Care: Good (19/06/2019) · CQC record
• Old School House, Beehive Care: Good (11/05/2021) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Thomson
• Betty Elsie McCann
• Christopher John Hayhoe
• Daphne Slator
• David Botting
• Jill Lancaster
• John Charles Gough · trustee of 1 other charity
• SALLY MCDONALD

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BEEHIVE CHILDCARE GROUP.

• THE BEEHIVE CHILDCARE GROUP income £431k
• THE DEMENTIA CARE HUB income £211k
• CORNWALL OLD PEOPLE'S HOUSING SOCIETY income £2.2m
• AVANTE CARE AND SUPPORT LIMITED income £44.0m
• THE ABBEYFIELD UXBRIDGE SOCIETY LIMITED income £368k
• BEEHIVE PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £166k

Side by side with its peers

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