St Elizabeth Hospice

Registered charity 289154 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q112666885 · also known as ST ELIZABETH HOSPICE (SUFFOLK)

St Elizabeth Hospice improves life for people living with a progressive or terminal illness. Our work is centred on an individual's needs, which means specialist support, whenever and wherever it is needed, whether at home, in the community or at the hospice. Through medicine and therapy we ease pain; we give life purpose and make life liveable.

Objects

2.1 The Charity’s objects are restricted specifically, only for the public benefit to:2.1.1 promote the relief of persons (without prejudice to age, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or gender reassignment) who are suffering from:2.1.1.1 any chronic, life limiting or terminal illness; or 2.1.1.2 any disability or disease attributable to old age; or2.1.1.3 physical or mental illness, disability or disease of any other description(the Patients)in such ways as the Charity shall from time to time think fit.2.1.2 relieve the emotional and mental and spiritual needs of 2.1.2.1 Patients; 2.1.2.2 the families, close friends, carers, medical and other staff, providing or assisting in the care of the Patients; and2.1.2.3 other individuals who have suffered a bereavement and are in particular need of relief as the Charity shall from time to time think fit; by the provision of care, advice, support and counselling, including (but not limited to) bereavement counselling and associated services to any and/or all such persons.

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £816,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves standing at £2,683,159. The trustees confirm that the group has adequate financial resources to continue its activities for the foreseeable future, citing strong cash balances of £16.2 million and committed grant income from Integrated Care Boards.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 4 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 06/02/2023, 6 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01794927

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Elizabeth Hospice (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.

• DE BERNHARDT WOOD, Jonathan Paul — director, appointed 05/01/2026not on trustee list
• SCARLETT, Michael David — director, appointed 23/07/2025on trustee list
• BARROW, Jordan Alexander — director, appointed 03/07/2025on trustee list
• WILSON, Angela — director, appointed 19/02/2024on trustee list
• LOWE, Bridget — director, appointed 01/03/2023on trustee list
• MONKS, Ann — director, appointed 10/02/2023on trustee list
• HILGER, Andreas W, Dr — director, appointed 11/10/2022on trustee list
• PICKERING, John — director, appointed 25/11/2021on trustee list
• FENNER, Pamela Christina — director, appointed 07/04/2021on trustee list
• BANKS, Nicholas Leslie — director, appointed 14/01/2021on trustee list
• MACKENZIE, Graham — director, appointed 25/07/2019on trustee list
• FINNEY, Marlini — secretary, appointed 25/05/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 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. Elizabeth Hospice (Suffolk) — Registered, 2 registered locations, 3 regulated activities, last inspected 21/10/2021.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 36.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/07/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ann Monkschair
• Bridget Lowe
• Graham Mackenzie
• John Pickering
• Jonathan de Bernhardt Wood
• Jordan Alexander Barrow
• Michael Scarlett
• NICHOLAS BANKS
• Pamela Fenner

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

Operates in: Norfolk · Suffolk

Income and spending

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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

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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 ISABEL HOSPICE LIMITED.

• ISABEL HOSPICE LIMITED income £11.7m
• ST ELIZABETH'S CENTRE income £42.1m
• ST OSWALD'S HOSPICE LIMITED income £17.6m
• SAINT FRANCIS HOSPICE income £13.5m
• ST CATHERINE'S HOSPICE LIMITED income £13.3m
• ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (HARROW AND BRENT) LTD income £13.0m

Side by side with its peers

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