Wisdom Hospice Charity

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

Financial health, per its FY2023 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a net deficit of £306,013 for the year ended 31 March 2023, resulting in a reduction of unrestricted reserves to £1,884,734. The Trustees confirm that the group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis despite ongoing challenges from the pandemic and the cost of living crisis.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Kent LLP.

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.

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).

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

• 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

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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 £2.3m
• HOSPICE AID UK income £115k
• LIVING WISDOM WORD MINISTRY income £178k
• ST SAVIOURS MEDICAL CHARITY income £431k