ST CHRISTOPHERS HOSPICE

Registered charity 210667 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPICE LIMITED

St Christopher's Hospice exists to promote and provide skilled and compassionate palliative care of the highest quality. This high quality service is delivered to over 2,000 dying individuals and their families, friends and carers every year. We share our skills and expertise with others in the field through our extensive education and training programme and research into improving care.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net decrease in funds of £2.222m for the year, driven by a £2.095m operational loss and investment losses. Free unrestricted reserves were £24.511m, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover 9.3 months of operating expenditure against a policy target of 9-12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08872082

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.

• O'LEARY, Michael Shaun — director, appointed 06/10/2014not on trustee list
• O'LEARY, Michael Shaun — secretary, appointed 22/06/2017

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

11 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: St Christophers Hospice — Registered, 3 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 12/12/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

CQC provider record: St Christopher's Personal Care Services Ltd — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 26/02/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 22.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (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).

• St Christopher's Hospice: Outstanding (11/03/2020) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/07/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• NEIL GOULDENchair
• Ann Kenrick
• Anthony John Hunter
• David Lockyer
• Deepti Townsend
• Glenda Bonde
• John Andrew King
• Nicholas Diamond
• PROF DANIEL KELLY
• Philippa Martinelli
• Rhoda Iranloye · trustee of 2 other charities
• Satvinder Reyatt
• Simon Hall

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

Operates in: Bromley · Croydon · Lambeth · Lewisham · Southwark

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PILGRIMS HOSPICES IN EAST KENT.

• PILGRIMS HOSPICES IN EAST KENT income £18.9m
• HOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD LTD income £6.1m
• ST CATHERINE'S HOSPICE LIMITED income £13.3m
• EAST CHESHIRE HOSPICE income £7.8m
• ST RAPHAEL'S HOSPICE income £9.5m
• ST MICHAEL'S HOSPICE(NORTH HAMPSHIRE) income £7.2m

Side by side with its peers

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