HOSPICE OF ST FRANCIS (BERKHAMSTED) LTD

Registered charity 280825 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOSPICE OF ST FRANCIS, THE HOSPICE OF ST FRANCIS

The Hospice of St Francis (Berkhamsted) Ltd aims to achieve the best quality of life for patients with life-limiting illness, using the skills of a highly trained team of staff and volunteers in the therapeutic environment of the Hospice, at home, and elsewhere.

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 deficit of £3,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total reserves standing at £10.771 million. The trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern and has sufficient reserves to operate efficiently for the next 12 months. However, the financial review notes that expenditure increased by 3.3% due to inflationary pressures, and the board has committed to returning to a balanced budget by the end of 2026.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01507474

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hospice Of St Francis (Berkhamsted) (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Fay Richardson — Director of Care (source)
• Polly Traxler — Head of Integrated Governance (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.

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.

• JUNIPER, Jean Elizabeth — director, appointed 20/04/2026on trustee list
• SHAH, Avni Uttamchand — director, appointed 20/04/2026on trustee list
• BURROUGHS, Philip Anthony — director, appointed 20/04/2026on trustee list
• PURKIS, Darren Martin — director, appointed 01/10/2025not on trustee list
• THROWER, Charlotte Esi — director, appointed 01/10/2025on trustee list
• DASGUPTA, Debashis — director, appointed 03/10/2024on trustee list
• TURNER, Sandra — director, appointed 03/10/2024on trustee list
• JENKINS, Jennifer Clare — director, appointed 25/10/2021on trustee list
• POWELL, Edward John — director, appointed 27/11/2020on trustee list
• RAO, Shailen Guradhary — director, appointed 23/10/2019not on trustee list
• SYMINGTON, Timothy Douglas, Mr. — director, appointed 23/10/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

14 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: Hospice Of St. Francis (Berkhamsted) Limited — Registered, 1 registered location, 3 regulated activities, last inspected 25/05/2016.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (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 St Francis: Outstanding (09/09/2016) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/08/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Timothy Douglas Symingtonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Avni Shah
• Charlotte Thrower
• Debashis Dasgupta
• Edward Powell
• Jean Juniper
• Jennifer Clare Lloyd Jenkins
• Philip Burroughs
• SANDRA TURNER
• Shailen Guradhary

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Hertfordshire

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 SAINT FRANCIS HOSPICE.

• SAINT FRANCIS HOSPICE income £13.5m
• ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (BASILDON AND DISTRICT) LIMITED income £16.1m
• ST CATHERINE'S HOSPICE LIMITED income £13.3m
• FRANCIS HOUSE FAMILY TRUST income £6.0m
• ST RICHARDS HOSPICE FOUNDATION income £10.6m
• ST LUKE'S HOSPICE PLYMOUTH income £13.0m

Side by side with its peers

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