WAKEFIELD HOSPICE

Registered charity 518392 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of the highest level of symptom management and care for people who have advanced active, progressive and life threatening illness., through the provision of a Specialist Palliative Care Team. The Hospice endorses a holistic approach in promoting quality of life for patients as well as providing the continuing support that is offered to families and carers.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE WELFARE OF THE TERMINALLY ILL IN THE AREA OF WAKEFIELD AND DISTRICT IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT

Area of benefit: WAKEFIELD AND DISTRICT

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: Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £7,248,720, driven largely by significant legacies and NHS grants, resulting in a net surplus of £1,209,616. The charity holds consolidated unrestricted reserves of £6,627,189, which significantly exceeds its stated target range of £2.28m - £3.29m. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for at least 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BHP LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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)

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 02038416

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wakefield Hospice (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Janet Millard — Director of Clinical Services (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• DEAN, Faris — director, appointed 11/11/2024on trustee list
• HAYAT, Saadia, Dr — director, appointed 11/11/2024on trustee list
• CROSSE, Barbara, Dr — director, appointed 19/06/2024on trustee list
• BANWAIT, Perminderjeet Kaur — director, appointed 03/04/2023on trustee list
• BECK, Christopher Robert — director, appointed 12/12/2022on trustee list
• KENDALL, Claire — director, appointed 12/12/2022on trustee list
• MILNE, John Gordon — director, appointed 01/02/2021on trustee list
• OTTER, Robert James — director, appointed 27/07/2020on trustee list
• HAMILTON, Alan Thomas — director, appointed 27/07/2020on trustee list
• HIRST, Helen Jane — director, appointed 25/03/2019on trustee list
• BEEDLE, Andrew Craig — secretary, appointed 11/01/2022

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

15 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Wakefield Hospice — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 14/11/2023.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 ~6.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 32.3% 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).

• Wakefield Hospice: Good (29/03/2024) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/03/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Thomas Hamilton
• CHRISTOPHER ROBERT BECK
• Claire Kendall
• Dr Barbara Crosse
• Dr Saadia Hayat
• Faris Dean
• Helen Jane Hirst
• JOHN GORDON MILNE · trustee of 1 other charity
• John William Knox
• Karen Lisa Parkin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Perminderjeet Kaur Banwait · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert James Otter
• Sarah Charlotte Black

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

Operates in: City Of Wakefield

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 SAINT FRANCIS HOSPICE.

• SAINT FRANCIS HOSPICE income £13.5m
• HOSPICE AID UK income £115k
• DERWENTSIDE HOSPICE CARE FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• WIGAN AND LEIGH HOSPICE income £7.2m
• WAKEFIELD DISTRICT HARRIERS AND ATHLETIC CLUB income £46k
• HOSPICE IN THE WEALD income £15.9m

Side by side with its peers

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