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.

Objects

The objects for which the Charity is established (the "Objects") are to promote the relief of suffering (so far as such purpose is charitable) in such ways as the Trustees shall from time to time think fit, and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of such object) by:3.1 establishing, maintaining and providing hospice care and home care services in England and Wales for the reception and care of people of who are suffering (at any age) from any chronic or terminal illness, or from any disability of disease attributable to old age, or from any other physical or mental infirmity, disability or disease;3.2 providing or assisting in or encouraging the provision of spiritual help and guidance for such people, their families and carers;3.3 providing such other care, support and assistance to the families and carers of such people as the Trustees shall from time to time think fit;3.4 conducting, promoting or encouraging research into the care of such people, particularly but not exclusively those who are suffering from cancer or terminal illness;3.5 promoting, encouraging or assisting in the teaching or training of doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and other persons engaged in health and social care, and of students in any branch of medicine, surgery, nursing, health and social care or allied services; and3.6 providing bereavement counselling services for adults and children.

Area of benefit: ENGLAND AND WALES

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bromley, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• 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
• Investment
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Trustpilot: Stchristophers scores 3.2/5 from 1 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

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 3.7%) (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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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST CATHERINE'S HOSPICE LIMITED.

• ST CATHERINE'S HOSPICE LIMITED income £13.3m
• ST MICHAEL'S HOSPICE (INCORPORATING THE FREDA PEARCE FOUNDATION) income £12.8m
• ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (BASILDON AND DISTRICT) LIMITED income £16.1m
• ST RICHARDS HOSPICE FOUNDATION income £10.6m
• ST CHRISTOPHER'S FELLOWSHIP income £16.3m
• SAINT FRANCIS HOSPICE income £13.5m

Side by side with its peers

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