TEESSIDE HOSPICE CARE FOUNDATION
Registered charity 512875 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TEESSIDE HOSPICE
"To provide Specialist Palliative Care and relief of complex symptoms with a regard to physical, social, psychological and spiritual aspects of patient / family care, thus enabling them to return home or to another care environment."
Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity generated a deficit of £187,895 before unrealised investment gains, with unrestricted funds decreasing by £135,076. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £3,401,424, which exceeds the stated acceptable level of £3,100,000, and the trustees maintain a reasonable expectation of adequate resources for the foreseeable future.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: £3,100,000 (held: £3.4m)
“moving into 2025/26 the risk based approach above has defined an acceptable level of £3,100,000.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: HR Alchemy
“J Davies business HR Alchemy kindly donated £4,280 to corporate fundraising in the year ended 31 March 2025 (2024: £2,385).” — page 45
“D Modesto Lusardi is a governor at Middlesbrough College. The Hospice paid Middlesbrough College £70 in the year for an emergency first aid course.” — page 45
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Middlesbrough College
“J Davies business HR Alchemy kindly donated £4,280 to corporate fundraising in the year ended 31 March 2025 (2024: £2,385).” — page 45
“D Modesto Lusardi is a governor at Middlesbrough College. The Hospice paid Middlesbrough College £70 in the year for an emergency first aid course.” — page 45
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Teesside Hospice (Trading) Limited
“J Davies business HR Alchemy kindly donated £4,280 to corporate fundraising in the year ended 31 March 2025 (2024: £2,385).” — page 45
“D Modesto Lusardi is a governor at Middlesbrough College. The Hospice paid Middlesbrough College £70 in the year for an emergency first aid course.” — page 45
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Teesside Hospice (Trading) Limited
“Teesside Hospice (Trading) Limited is 100% owned by the Charity.” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Waltons Business Advisers Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Teesside Hospice (matched by registered charity number).
Funders the charity credits
Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).
- Thirteen — “We’d like to say a huge thank you to Teesside-based housing association Thirteen, which has donated funds from its community fund to Teessid…” (source page)
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.
- MORRIS, Richard Guy — director, appointed 03/10/2025on trustee list
- BLUNSDON, Victoria Jayne — director, appointed 24/09/2025on trustee list
- PUGH, Ryan Mark — director, appointed 27/02/2025on trustee list
- HODGSON, John — director, appointed 05/12/2024on trustee list
- LUSARDI, Dominic Modesto — director, appointed 29/02/2024on trustee list
- LANGRICK, Carole — director, appointed 30/01/2020on trustee list
- SHERIDAN, John — director, appointed 30/01/2020on trustee list
- WHITEHEAD, Gary — director, appointed 27/11/2019on trustee list
Official officers record.
Public-sector contracts awarded
From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.
Property (HM Land Registry)
7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
CQC provider record: Teesside Hospice Care Foundation — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 16/03/2016. CQC record
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£2.4m
Reported reserves equal ~6.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 40.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (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).
- Teesside Hospice Care Foundation: Good (25/06/2016) · CQC record
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Darlington · Hartlepool · Middlesbrough · North Yorkshire · Redcar And Cleveland · Stockton-on-tees
Income and spending
Common questions
Is TEESSIDE HOSPICE CARE FOUNDATION financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a deficit of £187,895 before unrealised investment gains, with unrestricted funds decreasing by £135,076. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £3,401,424, which exceeds the stated acceptable level of £3,100,000, and the trustees maintain a reasonable expectation of adequate resources for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Waltons Business Advisers Limited.
Who funds TEESSIDE HOSPICE CARE FOUNDATION?
Funders whose own accounts filings name TEESSIDE HOSPICE CARE FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include TEES VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, THE GOSHEN TRUST, THE REED FOUNDATION, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, YARM, The Teesside Charity.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
Government & lottery funding
Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).
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