DOROTHY HOUSE

Registered charity 275745 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q141143521 · also known as DOROTHY HOUSE HOSPICE, DOROTHY HOUSE HOSPICE CARE, THE DOROTHY HOUSE FOUNDATION LIMITED

An independent Hospice offering a wide range of services and education in the provision of specialist palliative care to a local population of around 500,000 people. All services in the community and the hospice are provided free of charge and with equal access to all.

Objects

The objects for which the Charity is established are, for the public benefit, to promote by such charitable means as the Trustees shall from time to time think fit the relief of sickness among people suffering from any chronic or life limiting illnesses of any description through the provision of treatment, holistic care, financial assistance, support, education and practical advice for such individuals, their families, dependants and carers and to advance the education of the general public in all areas relating to such conditions.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED (IN PRACTICE AVON, WILTSHIRE AND SOMERSET)

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: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted funds are sufficient to meet its liabilities and continue its operations for the foreseeable future. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate and there is no material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO. 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Together in Adversity – Dorothy House Hospice Care campaign launched ehospice.com · 28/01/2025
• Dorothy House Hospice Care launches Halloween-themed interactive nature trail mnrjournal.co.uk · 04/10/2024
• Dorothy House Hospice Care receives “Outstanding” rating by CQC bathecho.co.uk · 24/08/2022
• Dorothy House Hospice Care awarded £13k to fund new support groups bathecho.co.uk · 17/06/2019
• Dorothy House Hospice Care presents joint award for Innovative Thinking bathecho.co.uk · 16/03/2018
• A royal visit to Dorothy House Hospice Care’s 40th birthday greatbritishlife.co.uk · 22/06/2016
• Fundraisers donate money to Dorothy House Hospice Care wiltshiretimes.co.uk · 09/03/2015

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01360961

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Dorothy House (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Wayne de Leeuw — Chief Executive (source)
• Francesca Thompson — Chair (source)
• Tony De Jaeger — Director (source)
• James Byron — Director (source)
• Liza Pinching — Director (source)
• Penny Agent — Director (source)
• Emma Frampton — Director (source)
• Bridget Warr — Vice Chair (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Steve Vick International — “Proudly supporting Dorothy House since 2002 Raised over £60,000 for our core services” (source page)
• Bath ASU — “Bath ASU launched their coffee initiative in 2017, where 20p from every hot drink sold from their coffee machines is donated directly to Dor…” (source page)
• Pharmaxo Group — “Together, Bath ASU and Pharmaxo Group have raised over £50,000 for Dorothy House.” (source page)
• HW Facilities — “HW Facilities has been dedicating their support since 2024. Engaged employees, based around the country, have undertaken their own challen…” (source page)
• TSHIRT & SONS — “A huge thank you to the team at TSHIRT & SONS for their generous donation of graphic tees.” (source page)
• Vivobarefoot — “We are incredibly grateful to VivoBarefoot who have donated 800 pairs of ReVivo trail, leather boots and trainers to Dorothy House Retail.” (source page)
• Robert Frederick — “We are so grateful to the team at Robert Frederick and North Parade Publishing for their first regular gift and book donations to sell in ou…” (source page)
• North Parade Publishing — “We are so grateful to the team at Robert Frederick and North Parade Publishing for their first regular gift and book donations to sell in ou…” (source page)
• Vivid Wrap — “A huge thank you to Vivid Wrap, Corsham for their generous donation of quality gift wrap, bags and accessories.” (source page)

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.

• HARWOOD, Leesa Claire — director, appointed 24/03/2026on trustee list
• HUGHES, Joanne Louise — director, appointed 20/12/2025on trustee list
• TARGETT, Paul Alan — director, appointed 16/12/2025on trustee list
• WRIGHT, Daniel John — director, appointed 16/12/2025on trustee list
• PARIS, Holly Joanne, Dr — director, appointed 01/07/2025on trustee list
• GRAY, David Paul, Revd — director, appointed 09/10/2024on trustee list
• NICHOLS, Charity Mae — director, appointed 03/05/2022on trustee list
• NDLOVU, Margaret — director, appointed 03/05/2022on trustee list
• WARR, Gillian Bridget — director, appointed 03/05/2022on trustee list
• GARE, James Alexander — director, appointed 03/07/2018on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Francesca — director, appointed 20/06/2017on trustee list
• DE JAEGER, Anthony Ignace Joseph Marie — secretary, appointed 24/07/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

17 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Dorothy House — Registered, 1 registered location, 3 regulated activities, last inspected 09/06/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram (9,110 followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 34.8% 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).

• Dorothy House Hospice Care: Outstanding (22/06/2026) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Francesca Thompsonchair
• Charity Mae Nichols
• Daniel Wright
• Dr Holly Joanne Paris
• Gillian Bridget Warr
• JAMES GARE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joanne Louise Hughes
• Leesa Harwood
• Margret Ndlovu
• Paul Alan Targett
• Rev David Paul Gray

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Somerset · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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

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 ROWCROFT HOUSE FOUNDATION LIMITED.

• ROWCROFT HOUSE FOUNDATION LIMITED income £12.0m
• DARLINGTON AND DISTRICT HOSPICE MOVEMENT income £3.6m
• DERIAN HOUSE CHILDRENS HOSPICE income £7.7m
• DOVE HOUSE HOSPICE LIMITED income £12.8m
• DONNINGTON HOUSE CARE HOME LIMITED income £2.0m
• GREAT OAKS HOSPICE income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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