ST OSWALD'S HOSPICE LIMITED

Registered charity 503386 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal activity of the Hospice is to provide specialist palliative medical and nursing care to patients with life limiting illnesses.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: 1. THE PROVISION OF RESIDENTIAL AND DAY CARE AND CARE IN THE COMMUNITY FOR PERSONS SUFFERING FROM A LIFE THREATENING OR CHRONIC ILLNESS; 2. THE PROVISION OF CARE AND SUPPORT TO PATIENT'S FAMILIES, FRIENDS, CARERS AND OTHERS IN NEED; 3. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR PROFESSIONALS AND VOLUNTEERS ENGAGED IN PALLIATIVE AND END OF LIFE CARE; 4. THE PROMOTION OF AWARENESS OF THE VIRTUES, PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF HOSPICES AND PALLIATIVE AND END OF LIFE CARE AND SUPPORT; 5. THE PROVISION OF SPIRITUAL HELP TO PATIENTS, THEIR FAMILIES, CARERS AND STAFF.

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

Registered contact address: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a deficit of £479k for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a surplus in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £6.6 million, which is below the stated policy target of £8.9 million but remains within the acceptable range of £4.4 million to £13.3 million. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate reserves to continue operations for the foreseeable future despite planned future deficits.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. Discloses 6 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01166239

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Oswald's Hospice Limited (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.

• SAFDAR, Sahreen — director, appointed 08/09/2025on trustee list
• CUFF, Andrew Vincent, Dr — director, appointed 21/05/2025on trustee list
• CHARLEWOOD, Alison, Dr — director, appointed 28/04/2025on trustee list
• STEPHENSON, Nicola Jane, Dame — director, appointed 06/01/2025on trustee list
• WORLAND, Kirste Vicki — director, appointed 06/01/2025on trustee list
• REYNOLDS, David Iain — director, appointed 01/12/2022on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Richard — director, appointed 24/11/2021on trustee list
• SINTON, Sue — director, appointed 24/11/2021on trustee list
• HOLMES, James Forster — director, appointed 19/07/2021on trustee list
• HOLLAND, Imogen — director, appointed 03/02/2021on trustee list
• O'DRISCOLL, Laura Elizabeth — director, appointed 20/07/2020on trustee list
• JAMES, Stephen Peter — director, appointed 21/05/2019on trustee list
• PHILLIPS, Tricia — director, appointed 26/03/2019on trustee list
• HICKS, David Charles — director, appointed 25/09/2018on trustee list
• MALLEN, Christy — secretary, appointed 13/05/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

20 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: St. Oswald's Hospice Limited — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 07/09/2015.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (17,376 followers) · instagram (5,233 followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 34.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile 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).

• St Oswalds Hospice: Good (26/01/2016) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dame Nicola Stephenson
• David Hicks
• David Iain Reynolds
• Dr Alison Charlewood
• Dr Andrew Cuff
• Dr Neil Morris
• Imogen Holland
• James Holmes
• Kirste Worland
• Laura O'Driscoll
• Richard Taylor
• Sahreen Safdar
• Stephen James
• Sue Sinton
• Tricia Phillips

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

Operates in: Durham · Gateshead · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside · Northumberland · South Tyneside · Sunderland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST CLARE WEST ESSEX HOSPICE CARE TRUST.

• ST CLARE WEST ESSEX HOSPICE CARE TRUST income £9.3m
• HOSPICE AID UK income £115k
• ST WILFRID'S HOSPICE (EASTBOURNE) income £8.5m
• THE MARY STEVENS HOSPICE income £6.5m
• ST RICHARDS HOSPICE FOUNDATION income £10.6m
• ST MICHAEL'S HOSPICE (INCORPORATING THE FREDA PEARCE FOUNDATION) income £12.8m

Side by side with its peers

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