PILGRIMS HOSPICES IN EAST KENT

Registered charity 293968 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity runs three hospices providing specialist palliative care services to patients through inpatient and day care, clinics, support at home from teams of community nurses and a 24-hour helpline. Families receive social, pastoral and bereavement support from teams of professionals at all three hospices. An education centre provides training and education for professionals and the public.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND SUFFERING IN SUCH WAYS AS THE ASSOCIATION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT. (FOR FULL DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES)

Area of benefit: EAST KENT

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Canterbury, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £250,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £18.9 million against total expenditure of £18.6 million. The trustees report that free reserves stood at £15.7 million, which they consider sufficient to cover five to six months of operating expenditure, maintaining a prudent level of financial stability despite economic pressures.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £120,001 - £130,000 (FY2024) to £160,001 - £170,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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)

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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 31/03/2021 (received 07/02/2022, 7 days after the 31/01/2022 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 02000560

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Pilgrims Hospices In East Kent (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.

• PUGH, Paul William — director, appointed 25/06/2026on trustee list
• KOCHNARI, Kate — director, appointed 04/12/2025on trustee list
• HERRON, Ruth Karen — director, appointed 26/06/2025on trustee list
• HAMES, Faye Marie — director, appointed 03/10/2024on trustee list
• LEPPER, Peter Godfrey — director, appointed 16/04/2024on trustee list
• BIGGS, Peter Edward — director, appointed 29/09/2022on trustee list
• RICHARDS, James David — director, appointed 29/09/2021on trustee list
• ORIEL, Susan Margaret Julie — director, appointed 15/05/2019on trustee list
• WILSON, Ruth Edna Mary, Dr — director, appointed 01/01/2018on trustee list
• WARDEN, Karen Frances — director, appointed 01/01/2018not on trustee list
• SHARP, Elizabeth Jean — director, appointed 25/05/2016on trustee list
• MACKENZIE, Darren — secretary, appointed 21/05/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

39 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (27 freehold); recorded price paid £717k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent — Registered, 3 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 16/06/2017.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~10.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 26.5% of total income — in the top quarter 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).

• Pilgrims Hospice Canterbury: Good (30/03/2015) · CQC record
• Pilgrims Hospice Thanet: Good (16/08/2017) · CQC record
• Pilgrims Hospice Ashford: Outstanding (23/10/2025) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Peter Biggs
• Faye Hames
• James David Richards
• Karen Mitcalfe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kate Kochnari
• Paul Pugh
• Peter Godfrey Lepper
• Ruth Herron
• Susan Margaret Julie Oriel

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

Operates in: Kent

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 KENTIGERN HOSPICE.

• ST KENTIGERN HOSPICE income £3.9m
• PILGRIMS' FRIEND SOCIETY income £23.0m
• ST MICHAEL'S HOSPICE (INCORPORATING THE FREDA PEARCE FOUNDATION) income £12.8m
• PILGRIM HOMES TRUST income £2.3m
• ST GILES HOSPICE income £12.8m
• ST CATHERINES HOSPICE (LANCASHIRE) LIMITED income £10.4m

Side by side with its peers

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