ST WILFRID'S HOSPICE (SOUTH COAST) LIMITED

Registered charity 281963 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

St Wilfrid's Hospice provides and promotes high quality specialist palliative care. The charity operates a 14 bed inpatient unit, and a community team (including a rapid response service) caring for around 340 patients at any one time, a bereavement service, internal and external education provision, and support and advice to patients & staff in local hospitals.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM CANCER AND OTHER TERMINAL CONDITIONS AND THE RELIEF OF THE CARERS AND FAMILIES OF SUCH PEOPLE WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS.

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: Chichester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that an independent audit was conducted by Crowe U.K. LLP for the year ended 31 March 2025. The auditor identified income completeness and management override of controls as the greatest risks of material misstatement. The report confirms the audit was performed in accordance with auditing standards without noting any material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01562110

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St. Wilfrid’s Hospice (Chichester) (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.

• BUTCHER, Stewart Leslie — director, appointed 11/03/2026on trustee list
• HUDGELL, Keith James — director, appointed 28/05/2025on trustee list
• SAVILL, Melanie — director, appointed 27/11/2024on trustee list
• BATEMAN, Alastaire Michael, Dr — director, appointed 24/05/2023not on trustee list
• MARTYN, John James — director, appointed 19/04/2023on trustee list
• GREENBERG, Karla, Dr — director, appointed 19/04/2023on trustee list
• BRUCE, Louise — director, appointed 24/02/2021on trustee list
• EASTER, Alan James — director, appointed 21/09/2020on trustee list
• MUDFORD, Victoria Mary — director, appointed 24/07/2019on trustee list
• CLAYTON, Julian John — director, appointed 28/02/2018on trustee list
• WATT, Louise Ursula — director, appointed 24/08/2016on trustee list
• CLAPCOTT, Gemma — secretary, appointed 01/07/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

11 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: St. Wilfrid's Hospice (South Coast) Limited — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 20/04/2016.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~11.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 33.9% 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 Wilfrid's Hospice: Good (06/07/2016) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan James Easter
• Dr Alastair Bateman
• Dr Karla Greenberg
• John James Martyn
• Julian John Clayton
• Keith Hudgell
• Louise Bruce
• Melanie Savill
• Stewart Butcher
• Ursula Watt · trustee of 2 other charities
• Victoria Mary Mudford

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

Operates in: Hampshire · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 ST WILFRID'S HOSPICE (EASTBOURNE).

• ST WILFRID'S HOSPICE (EASTBOURNE) income £8.5m
• ST. DAVID'S HOSPICE income £6.4m
• ST CHRISTOPHERS HOSPICE income £29.4m
• ST GILES HOSPICE income £12.8m
• HOSPISCARE income £17.4m
• ST ANDREWS HOSPICE LIMITED income £7.3m

Side by side with its peers

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