WILLEN HOSPICE

Registered charity 270194 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOSPICE OF OUR LADY AND ST JOHN

To provide Specialist Palliative Care to people with cancer and other life limiting illnesses(symptom relief and support) who are over the age of 18 years living in Milton Keynes and surrounding communities. Depending upon the patients needs and their choice, care can be provided as an In patient, in the patients home or Day Hospice.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND SUFFERING RESULTING IN PARTICULAR FROM TERMINAL ILLNESS. 2. TO CONDUCT OR PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE CARE AND TREATMENT OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM ANY ILLNESS, DISABILITY, DISEASE OF INFIRMITY AND IN PARTICULAR INTO THE CARE AND TREATMENT OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM CANCER OR TERMINAL ILLNESSES AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

Area of benefit: MILTON KEYNES

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

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

Registered contact address: Milton Keynes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an underlying operational deficit of approximately £800k for the year ended 31 March 2026, driven by rising costs and reliance on voluntary income. Per the trustees' report, total consolidated reserves stood at £16,727,540, which is above the stated policy target of 6 to 18 months of operational running costs. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mercer & Hole LLP. Discloses 3 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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 01231909

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Willen 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.

• MCNEILL-RICHARDSON, David — director, appointed 11/06/2026on trustee list
• SIMPSON, Helen — director, appointed 11/09/2025on trustee list
• WEATHERUP, Penolope — director, appointed 28/02/2025not on trustee list
• MOHAMED, Shahida — director, appointed 21/11/2024on trustee list
• MEDILL, Rachel Mary — director, appointed 10/06/2024not on trustee list
• MARSH, Anthony James — director, appointed 15/02/2024on trustee list
• COOPER, Paul Andrew — director, appointed 04/08/2022on trustee list
• BALL, Philip Ronald Arthur — director, appointed 01/04/2021on trustee list
• ESAM, Marihelen — director, appointed 06/02/2020on trustee list
• WOOD, Jan-Denise — director, appointed 02/11/2017on trustee list
• ALSOP, Richard — secretary, appointed 25/07/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

CQC provider record: Willen Hospice — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 24/03/2015.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Head of Clinical Quality and Governance — 55000 - 55000 UKP per year · Willen Hospice (On-site) · posted 1 day ago (seen 04/11/2026)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~17.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 38.6% 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).

• The Hospice of Our Lady and St John: Good (03/06/2015) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rachel Medill MBEchair
• Anthony James Marsh
• David McNeill-Richardson
• Helen Simpson
• Marihelen Esam
• Paul Andrew Cooper
• Penelope Weatherup
• Philip Ronald Arthur Ball
• Shahida Mohamed

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

Operates in: Bedford · Buckinghamshire · Central Bedfordshire · Milton Keynes · Northamptonshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 WIGAN AND LEIGH HOSPICE.

• WIGAN AND LEIGH HOSPICE income £7.2m
• ST MICHAEL'S HOSPICE (INCORPORATING THE FREDA PEARCE FOUNDATION) income £12.8m
• Havens Hospices income £20.6m
• THE WILL CHARITABLE TRUST income £520k
• HALTON HAVEN HOSPICE income £2.7m
• WOKING HOSPICE income £9.3m

Side by side with its peers

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