Wisdom Hospice Charity

Registered charity 284894 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE FRIENDS OF THE WISDOM HOSPICE LIMITED

The main objective of the Charity is to promote the relief of suffering and treatment of illness in the Medway and Swale areas. The Charity makes an annual grant to Medway Community Healthcare to not only ensure that the current services of The Wisdom Hospice are maintained but, where possible, to continually improve upon those services.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £2,310,516, with the Trustees regarding this as an appropriate level to maintain financial support for the hospice. The group reported a net income increase to £2,124,123, driven largely by a significant rise in legacy income, while operating costs rose to £1,768,306. The Trustees confirmed adequate resources for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis despite ongoing economic challenges.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Hacker Young. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wisdom Hospice Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Andy Gray — Director (source)
• Victoria Brown — Director (source)
• Nigel Wright — Director (source)
• Bob Coleman — Director (source)
• Emma Bowler — Director (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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~15.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 46.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Victoria WEBSTERchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Gray
• Avis Margaret Brett
• Emma Bowler
• Nigel Christopher John Wright · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROBERT FREDERICK COLEMAN
• Victoria Naomi Brown

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Nigel Christopher John Wright — trustee here and at WISDOM HOSPICE SUPPORT

Known funders

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

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 WISDOM HOSPICE SUPPORT.

• WISDOM HOSPICE SUPPORT income £672k
• CHONYI WISDOM CHARITY income £279k
• Salisbury Hospice Charity Limited income £2.7m
• COMMUNITY WISE income £145k
• WIGAN AND LEIGH HOSPICE income £7.2m
• WISDOM HOUSE income £124k

Side by side with its peers

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