ST LUKE'S CHESHIRE HOSPICE

Registered charity 515595 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity's activities includeIn-care, day-care, therapies, home befriending service, lymphoedema clinic, benefits advice,counseling,education,research into palliative care thus improving servicesAlsoDevelopment of a model for dementia care for the end of life,development of an infrastructure for palliative care research,development of a model of a Public Health/end of life approach.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF ILLNESS AND SUFFERING IN SUCH WAYS AS THE ASSOCIATION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, AND IN PARTICULAR IN THE SOUTH AND MID-CHESHIRE AREA AND ADJACENT AREAS (A) BY ESTABLISHING, MAINTAINING AND CONDUCTING RESIDENTIAL NURSING AND CONVALESCENT HOMES FOR THE RECEPTION AND CARE OF PERSONS OF EITHER SEX WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM ANY CHRONIC OR TERMINAL ILLNESS OR FROM ANY DISABILITY OR DISEASE ATTRIBUTABLE TO OLD AGE. (FOR FULL DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM. ))

Area of benefit: THE SOUTH AND MID-CHESHIRE AREA

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

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

Registered contact address: Cheshire West and Chester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a record group surplus of £2,578,334, driven primarily by exceptional legacy income of £2,933,839. Per the trustees' report, excluding these legacies and investment revaluations, the hospice would have declared an operating deficit, highlighting a reliance on unpredictable income streams. The charity maintains free reserves of £4,394,567, which represents approximately nine months of operating costs, within its stated policy target of six to twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 3 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Archers' unique Paris 2024 challenge in aid of St Luke's Cheshire Hospice northwichguardian.co.uk · 22/07/2024
• St Luke's Cheshire Hospice faces major funding shortfall as boss speaks of 'reducing services' cheshire-live.co.uk · 17/04/2024

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01846186

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Luke's (Cheshire) 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.

• BACON, Patricia Anne, Dame — director, appointed 01/04/2026not on trustee list
• CAWLEY, Anita — director, appointed 01/03/2026on trustee list
• DUNN, Dennis — director, appointed 01/10/2025not on trustee list
• MOREAR, Daniel John — director, appointed 04/11/2024on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Rachael Lisa — director, appointed 26/06/2024on trustee list
• AHEARNE, Zoe Dawn — director, appointed 28/06/2023on trustee list
• GIBBS-BLYTHE, Katharine Johanna, Dr — director, appointed 24/11/2021on trustee list
• DAVIES, Wendy — director, appointed 29/01/2020on trustee list
• GREENBURY, Lee — director, appointed 28/06/2019on trustee list
• COOKSON, Tina Bernadette — director, appointed 28/06/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £420k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: St Luke's (Cheshire) Hospice — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 22/03/2016.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 23.2% of total income — in the top quarter 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).

• St Luke's (Cheshire) Hospice: Good (10/03/2026) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/03/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anita Cawley · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dame Patricia Anne Bacon DBE
• Daniel John Morear
• Dennis Dunn MBE JP DL
• Katharine Gibbs-Blythe
• Lee Greenbury
• Rachael Lisa Williams
• Tina Cookson
• Wendy Davies
• Zoe Ahearne

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester

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 ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (HARROW AND BRENT) LTD.

• ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (HARROW AND BRENT) LTD income £13.0m
• ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (BASILDON AND DISTRICT) LIMITED income £16.1m
• ST LUKE'S OXFORD income £4.9m
• ST MICHAEL'S HOSPICE (INCORPORATING THE FREDA PEARCE FOUNDATION) income £12.8m
• ST NICHOLAS HOSPICE SUFFOLK income £8.8m
• HOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD LTD income £6.1m

Side by side with its peers

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