ST PETER'S HOSPICE

Registered charity 269177 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST PETER'S HOSPICE LIMITED

St Peter's Hospice is Bristol's only adult hospice caring for local people with life-limiting illnesses. Our commitment is to improve the quality of life of patients while extending care and support to their families and loved ones.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THIS OBJECT), TO PROVIDE SERVICES SO AS TO SUPPORT THE PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL NEEDS OF THOSE AFFECTED BY LIFE-LIMITING ILLNESSES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £1.4m for the year, driven by increased staff costs and operating expenses exceeding income. Per the trustees' report, this deficit is being funded by free reserves, which stood at £11.774m and represented 6.7 months of underlying operating expenditure, exceeding the policy target of 3-6 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 5 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01191227
• Trading subsidiary: ST PETER'S HOSPICE ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 02595158

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Peter's Hospice (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• CHERRY, Charlotte Elizabeth — director, appointed 31/03/2026on trustee list
• ARDRON, David James — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
• BOWER, Jonathan Charles — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
• BUDD, Chris David — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
• TALBOT-WILLIAMS, Sarah Elizabeth — director, appointed 26/06/2024on trustee list
• CRAYTON, Maria — director, appointed 26/06/2024on trustee list
• REED, Emma-Kate, Dr — director, appointed 26/06/2024on trustee list
• TAFFINDER, Robert — director, appointed 06/12/2022on trustee list
• WINT, Alison Jean, Dr — director, appointed 30/03/2022on trustee list
• GODFREY, Alison Louise — director, appointed 30/03/2022on trustee list
• NAIVALURUA, Richard Kitioni — director, appointed 22/06/2021on trustee list
• MORGAN, Helen Elizabeth — director, appointed 22/06/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

40 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold); recorded price paid £553k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: St Peter's Hospice — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 17/03/2016.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (17,300 followers) · instagram (4,226 followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 48.7% of total income — above the 90th percentile 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 Peter's Hospice: Not Rated · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/01/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/02/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Helen Elizabeth Morganchair
• Alison Louise Godfrey
• Charlotte Cherry
• Chris Budd
• David Ardron
• Dr Alison Jean Wint · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Emma-Kate Reed
• Jonathan Charles Bower · trustee of 1 other charity
• Maria Crayton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Kitioni Naivalurua
• Robert Taffinder
• Sarah Talbot-Williams

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

Operates in: Bristol City · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Jonathan Charles Bower — trustee here and at WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (UK) CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION

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 ST CATHERINE'S HOSPICE LIMITED.

• ST CATHERINE'S HOSPICE LIMITED income £13.3m
• ST CHRISTOPHERS HOSPICE income £29.4m
• ST WILFRID'S HOSPICE (EASTBOURNE) income £8.5m
• HOSPICE OF ST FRANCIS (BERKHAMSTED) LTD income £8.7m
• ST OSWALD'S HOSPICE LIMITED income £17.6m
• ST CUTHBERT'S HOSPICE, DURHAM income £4.8m

Side by side with its peers

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