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."

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE ASSOCIATION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: STOCKTON-ON-TEES

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: Middlesbrough, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

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

Accounts audited by Waltons Business Advisers 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
• 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
• 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 01642201

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)

Reported reserves equal ~6.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 40.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (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).

• Teesside Hospice Care Foundation: Good (25/06/2016) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gary Whiteheadchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carole Langrick · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dominic Modesto Lusardi
• John Hodgson
• John Sheridan
• Richard Morris · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ryan John Pugh
• Victoria Blunsdon

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

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).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOSPICE AID UK.

• HOSPICE AID UK income £115k
• ROYAL TRINITY HOSPICE income £17.8m
• THE TEESSIDE FAMILY FOUNDATION income £235k
• TAMESIDE AND GLOSSOP INTEGRATED CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITABLE FUND income £148k
• DERWENTSIDE HOSPICE CARE FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• CARE FOR THE CARERS income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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