Rowans Hospice

Registered charity 299731 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PORTSMOUTH AREA HOSPICE, THE ROWANS, THE ROWANS (PORTSMOUTH AREA HOSPICE), THE ROWANS - THE ROWANS HOSPICE, THE ROWANS HOSPICE

Specialist care and support across Portsmouth and SE Hants is provided to those aged 16 and above diagnosed with progressive life limiting illnesses and their families and carers. The service is free of charge irrespective of the nature of the illness, the patients' creed or financial means. Education programmes are run to enhance the skills base of other local health professionals.

Objects

The Object of the Charity as established is the relief of sickness, suffering and distress of persons with a terminal illness, progressive chronic illness or increasing and irreversible frailty, in particular by the provision of medical and nursing care and facilities for their care, treatment and benefit.

Area of benefit: PORTSMOUTH AND AREA

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an operating surplus of £891k, a significant turnaround from a budgeted deficit, driven by strong legacy income and cost-saving measures. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £5.099m, which exceeds its stated policy target of £3.7m, providing a buffer against income volatility. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations for at least 18 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hopper Williams & Bell Limited. 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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 02275068
• Trading subsidiary: THE ROWANS HOSPICE TRADING COMPANY LIMITED Companies House 02300646

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Rowans 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.

• GEORGE, Alexander Christian Wallis — director, appointed 13/05/2026on trustee list
• KNIGHTON, John, Dr — director, appointed 13/05/2026on trustee list
• POWER, Mark — director, appointed 25/09/2024on trustee list
• YOUNGS, Peter Maurice — director, appointed 25/09/2024on trustee list
• PARIS, Deborah Ann — director, appointed 07/09/2022on trustee list
• WATKINS, John, Dr — director, appointed 25/04/2019on trustee list
• GRACE, Georgina Bridget — secretary, appointed 18/09/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

15 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: The Rowans Hospice — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 28/09/2016.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 26.4% 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).

• The Rowans Hospice: Outstanding (06/05/2025) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/05/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Deborah Parischair
• Alexander Christian Wallis George
• Dr John Knighton
• Dr John Watkins
• Mark Power
• Peter Youngs

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Portsmouth City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 Havens Hospices.

• Havens Hospices income £20.6m
• ST ANDREWS HOSPICE LIMITED income £7.3m
• HOXTON HEALTH income £206k
• ROWAN HUMBERSTONE LIMITED income £951k
• ROWCROFT HOUSE FOUNDATION LIMITED income £12.0m
• NORTH DEVON HOSPICE income £9.8m

Side by side with its peers

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