ST WILFRID'S HOSPICE (EASTBOURNE)

Registered charity 283686 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST WILFORD'S HOSPICE (EASTBOURNE) LIMITED, ST WILFRID'S HOSPICE (EASTBOURNE) LTD, ST WILFRID'S HOSPICE (EASTBOURNE)TRADING COMPANY LIMITED

St Wilfrid's Hospice is a local charity providing skilled and compassionate care and treatment for all patients with complex needs as they near end of life.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated net deficit of £2,850k for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily driven by a significant under-performance in legacy income. Despite the deficit, the trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern with strong cash flow and free reserves equivalent to six months of total expenditure. The charity's reserves policy targets four months of total expenditure, and the actual free reserves at year-end were £15,096k, which is above this target.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 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 01594410

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Wilfrid's Hospice (Eastbourne) Ltd (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.

• SUCKLING, Julia Lesley — director, appointed 28/07/2026on trustee list
• BEECHING, Lisa Louise — director, appointed 28/07/2026on trustee list
• LLOYD, Andrew William — director, appointed 28/07/2026on trustee list
• COLLINS, Fiona Lisbeth — director, appointed 28/07/2026on trustee list
• OWEN THOMAS, Louise — director, appointed 07/10/2025not on trustee list
• BUTT, Lucy Rebecca — director, appointed 07/10/2025on trustee list
• SMITH, Edward Robert Henry — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
• HOBSON, Beryl — director, appointed 13/09/2022on trustee list
• O'LEARY, Michael Shaun — director, appointed 28/09/2021on trustee list
• BARNES, Mark Hodson, Dr — director, appointed 01/10/2019on trustee list
• ADAMS, Duncan John — director, appointed 25/07/2017on trustee list
• BUTLER, Jane Margaret — director, appointed 25/07/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

8 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: St Wilfrid's Hospice (Eastbourne) — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 07/08/2014.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (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: Outstanding (26/02/2015) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Shaun O'Learychair
• Andrew William Lloyd Mr
• Beryl Hobson
• Dr Mark Hodson Barnes
• Edward Robert Henry Smith
• Fiona Lisbeth Collins Mrs
• Julia Suckling Ms
• LUCY BUTT
• Lisa Louise Beeching Ms
• Louise Owen Thomas

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST CATHERINE'S HOSPICE LIMITED.

• ST CATHERINE'S HOSPICE LIMITED income £13.3m
• ST OSWALD'S HOSPICE LIMITED income £17.6m
• ST WILFRID'S HOSPICE (SOUTH COAST) LIMITED income £10.4m
• HOSPICE OF ST FRANCIS (BERKHAMSTED) LTD income £8.7m
• ST CLARE WEST ESSEX HOSPICE CARE TRUST income £9.3m
• ST RICHARDS HOSPICE FOUNDATION income £10.6m

Side by side with its peers

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