ST HELENA HOSPICE LIMITED

Registered charity 280919 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JOAN TOMKINS DAY CENTRE, MYLAND HALL EDUCATION CENTRE, TENDRING DAY CENTRE

Serving North Essex. Providing specialist palliative end of life care & bereavement services to patients, families and friends, advice & education to colleagues working in palliative care. Co-ordination of end of life services 24/7 including hosting an electronic end of life register. Education short courses & conferences.

Objects

To improve the quality of life of people in North Essex and other areas who are approaching end of life, whether through a life limiting disease, multiple co-morbidities or frailty. This includes support for immediate family and carers, and those affected by bereavement.

Area of benefit: THE COUNTY OF ESSEX AND ADJACENT AREAS

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Colchester, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £623k and free reserves of £3,942k, which comfortably exceed the agreed collar threshold of £3,300k. Per the trustees' report, the organisation remains a going concern with no material uncertainties, despite facing ongoing cost pressures and planned service reductions in the coming year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Larking Gowen 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
• 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)

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.

Regulator actions

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01511841
• Trading subsidiary: ST HELENA HOSPICE TRADING LIMITED Companies House 07152341
• Trading subsidiary: ST HELENA CARE SERVICES LTD Companies House 12440509

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

Funders the charity credits

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

• Rotary Club — “Representatives from four local Rotary Clubs presented cheque for £10,000 raised through the 2026 Colchester 10k run.” (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.

• CLARK, Angel Louise — director, appointed 19/02/2026not on trustee list
• BROWNING, Kevin Peter — director, appointed 28/08/2024on trustee list
• BROWN, Joanna — director, appointed 28/08/2024on trustee list
• POLOM, Richard Anthony — director, appointed 14/03/2023on trustee list
• FIELD, Timothy — director, appointed 16/12/2021on trustee list
• HYDE, Frances Catherine, Dr — director, appointed 19/09/2019on trustee list
• ALDRED, Kenneth John — director, appointed 15/12/2011on trustee list
• CRESSWELL, David — director, appointed 15/12/2011on trustee list
• GOWERS, Mandy Theresa — secretary, appointed 01/09/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

32 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: St. Helena Hospice Limited — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 24/11/2016.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 ~6.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 48.3% 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 Helena Hospice: Not Rated · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Angel Louise Clark
• DAVID CRESSWELL
• Dr Frances Catherine Hyde
• Joanna Brown
• Joanne Tonkin
• KENNETH JOHN ALDRED
• Kevin Browning
• Richard Polom · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy Field · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Common questions

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

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST CLARE WEST ESSEX HOSPICE CARE TRUST.

• ST CLARE WEST ESSEX HOSPICE CARE TRUST income £9.3m
• ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (HARROW AND BRENT) LTD income £13.0m
• ST MICHAEL'S HOSPICE (INCORPORATING THE FREDA PEARCE FOUNDATION) income £12.8m
• ST GEMMA'S HOSPICE income £15.7m
• ST NICHOLAS HOSPICE SUFFOLK income £8.8m
• ST GILES HOSPICE income £12.8m

Side by side with its peers

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