HOSPICE OF ST MARY OF FURNESS

Registered charity 517738 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOSPICE FOR FURNESS, ST MARY'S HOSPICE

St Mary's Hospice is the dedicated provider in South Cumbria of comprehensive specialised supportive and palliative care for people with life limiting conditions. Facilities and services are available to all adults who are facing the end of life, and to their families, carers and the bereaved.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF ILLNESS, SICKNESS OR SUFFERING BY:1. THE EXPERT CARE AND SUPPORT OF ADULTS WITH PALLIATIVE AND END OF LIFE NEEDS;2. THE PROVISION OF SERVICES TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND WELLBEING FOR PATIENTS AND CARERS;3. THE CARE AND SUPPORT OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS WHO HAVE BEEN BEREAVED;4. PROMOTING THE ADVANCEMENT OF HIGH QUALITY PALLIATIVE AND END OF LIFE CARE THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY.

Area of benefit: SEE OBJECTS

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: Westmorland and Furness, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased by 7% to £5.7m while expenditure increased by 16% to £5.7m, resulting in a net deficit for the year. Despite this, the charity reports strong financial health with unrestricted reserves of £9.2m, which the trustees note are held to cover six months of costs and identified losses in their 3 Year Plan.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. 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
• 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 02016831
• Trading subsidiary: ST MARY'S ORANGERY LTD Companies House 03052962

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.

• MURRAY, Gerald Richard, Dr — director, appointed 25/11/2025not on trustee list
• WOOD, Nicola Storey — director, appointed 08/03/2025on trustee list
• HARTLEY, Diane — director, appointed 04/03/2025on trustee list
• BLAND, Joel Alexander — director, appointed 20/02/2025on trustee list
• BURN, Catherine Joy — director, appointed 07/10/2024not on trustee list
• ROSS, Jane Michelle — director, appointed 07/02/2024on trustee list
• O'DONOVAN, James, Dr — director, appointed 28/11/2023on trustee list
• HIGGINS, James Richard John — director, appointed 01/12/2021on trustee list
• DICKSON, Alyson Judith — director, appointed 26/05/2020on trustee list
• LAKE, Susan — secretary, appointed 24/02/2014

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Hospice of St. Mary of Furness — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 02/06/2016.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 ~13.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 22.2% 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).

• Hospice of St. Mary of Furness: Good (09/08/2016) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Jameschair
• Alyson Dickson
• Diane Hartley
• Dr Gerry Murray
• Dr James O'Donovan
• James Higgins
• Jane Michelle Ross
• Joel Bland
• Nicola Wood
• Susan Jackson

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST CATHERINE'S HOSPICE LIMITED.

• ST CATHERINE'S HOSPICE LIMITED income £13.3m
• ST CUTHBERT'S HOSPICE, DURHAM income £4.8m
• ST CATHERINES HOSPICE (LANCASHIRE) LIMITED income £10.4m
• SAINT FRANCIS HOSPICE income £13.5m
• ST MARGARET'S SOMERSET HOSPICE income £15.4m
• ST CHRISTOPHERS HOSPICE income £29.4m

Side by side with its peers

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