FRANCIS HOUSE FAMILY TRUST

Registered charity 328659 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRANCIS HOUSE, RAINBOW FAMILY TRUST

Francis House Family Trust exists to manage & fund Francis House & Francis Lodge Children & Young Peoples Hospice. Providing respite & end of life care for children & young people with life limiting conditions, and the necessary support and short term care for their families. Care is available to families regardless of cultural or religious backgrounds. Care is family and child /young person led.

Objects

The Objects of the Charity are to promote the relief of illness and disability and suffering in such ways as the Charity shall from time to time think fit, and in particular in the North West of England and adjacent areas and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality whether geographical or otherwise of such object): 1.1. By establishing, maintaining and operating residential nursing and respite homes for the reception and care of children and young persons including the families and/or carers of children and young persons who are suffering from life limiting and life shortening illnesses (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Beneficiaries’) and the care and support of their families and/or carers;1.2. By providing, coordinating or promoting medical or other treatment or attention and appropriate support for the Beneficiaries and their families and/or carers in their own homes or at any other location; 1.3. By conducting or promoting or encouraging research into the care and treatment of the Beneficiaries and their families and/or carers, and promoting the dissemination of the results of such research; 1.4. By promoting or encouraging or assisting in the teaching or training of Doctors, Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Psychotherapists, Administrators, Social Workers, Counsellors and other persons engaged in any branch of medicine, surgery, nursing or allied or complementary services, and in the teaching or training of students in any branch of medicine, surgery, nursing or allied or complementary services; 1.5. By assisting access to spiritual support and guidance for the Beneficiaries and their families and/or carers 1.6. By providing or assisting in the provision of financial, emotional and practical support of the families and carers of Beneficiaries in relation to grief and bereavement of a Beneficiary .

Area of benefit: NORTH WEST ENGLAND

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated with a significant deficit of £2.22 million, which is being funded from reserves. The trustees recognize that income must increase significantly over the next five years to address this shortfall, citing uncertainty around government funding and rising operational costs. Despite the deficit, the charity maintains substantial unrestricted reserves of £11.6 million and holds a cash reserve of £500,000 to manage cashflow and capital projects.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Champion Accountants 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02519173
• Trading subsidiary: FRANCIS HOUSE FAMILIES LIMITED Companies House 05180888

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Francis House Children's 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.

• GIBBON, Amanda Jane — director, appointed 10/04/2025not on trustee list
• WOOLLEY, Stephen Kark, Father — director, appointed 16/01/2025on trustee list
• HYDE, Susan Margaret, Dr — director, appointed 17/04/2024on trustee list
• O'NEAL, Eamonn Sean — director, appointed 11/05/2023on trustee list
• GASIOROWSKI, Edward Robert — director, appointed 15/04/2021on trustee list
• CARNEY, Joseph, Rev — director, appointed 15/04/2021on trustee list
• RANGREZ, Aysha Iqbal — director, appointed 14/01/2021on trustee list
• KEMPLER, Amanda Jane — director, appointed 02/07/2020on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Andrew William, Dr — director, appointed 11/01/2018on trustee list
• LEDIGO, Charles — director, appointed 30/07/2015on trustee list
• SRIVASTAVA, Vijay Andrew Kumar — director, appointed 02/07/2015not on trustee list
• O'HALLORAN, Susan Mary, Dr — director, appointed 01/07/2013on trustee list
• KIRK, Susan Amanda, Dr — director, appointed 01/07/2013on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Rachael — secretary, appointed 01/04/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £820k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Francis House Family Trust — Registered, 4 registered locations, 3 regulated activities, last inspected 17/11/2021.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 ~37.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (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).

• Francis House Children's Hospice: Good (14/02/2022) · CQC record
• 463: Good (03/10/2019) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jane Amanda Kemplerchair
• Amanda Melton
• Aysha Rangrez
• CHARLES LEDIGO
• DR SUSAN KIRK
• DR SUSAN MARY O'HALLORAN
• Dr Andrew Taylor
• Dr Edward Robert Gasiorowski
• Dr Susan Hyde
• Eamonn Sean O'Neal · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Stephen Woolley
• VIJAY ANDREW KUMAR SRIVASTAVA LLB

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Family Fund Trust.

• Family Fund Trust income £44.9m
• SAINT FRANCIS HOSPICE income £13.5m
• FAMILY CARE TRUST income £4.1m
• THE FAMILY PLACE FOUNDATION income £224k
• RICHARD HOUSE TRUST income £4.8m
• HOSPICE OF ST FRANCIS (BERKHAMSTED) LTD income £8.7m

Side by side with its peers

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