THE OAKHAVEN TRUST

Registered charity 900215 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OAKHAVEN HOSPICE TRUST

Providing excellence in care and promoting the best quality of life for people living with a life-limiting condition and their families. Meeting the end-of-life care needs of our local community through the provision of specialist services combined with support, education, partnership working and collaboration with others. Patients receive expert, dignified, compassionate and supportive care.

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Latest income
£10.2m
Latest spending
£8.9m
Registered
1989
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £1.13m for the year ended 31 March 2025, a significant improvement from the previous year's loss, driven largely by exceptional legacy income. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stand at £5.08m, equating to 8.48 months of charitable expenditure, providing a buffer against the unpredictability of legacy funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: 8.48 months of charitable expenditure (held: £5.1m)
“After allowing for this there remains £5.08m (2024: £3.89m) of unrestricted funds which equates to 8.48 months (2024: 5.16) of charitable expenditure based upon 2025/26 budgeted expenditure.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Education services provided by Lynn Dodson; Director of Oakhaven Care and related to former Trustee Chairman.
“Education services were provided by Lynn Dodson to the Charity of £Nil (2024: £1,324), Lynn is a Director of Oakhaven Care and also related to Paul Dodson, who served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees until April 2023.” — page 45
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Oakhaven Trust Trading Company Limited, Oakhaven Lottery Company Limited, Oakhaven Care Limited
“The Charity has three subsidiaries: Oakhaven Trust Trading Company Limited, registered company number 02466879, Oakhaven Lottery Company Limited, registered company number 03339521 and Oakhaven Care Limited, registered company number 08409572.” — page 26
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Hopper Williams & Bell Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

Corporate structure

OAKHAVEN CARE LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts
  • Note 6 discloses 'Amounts owed to group undertakings' within Creditors, with a 2025 value of £58,646 and a 2024 value of £36,239.
OAKHAVEN LOTTERY COMPANY LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts
  • Creditors include £8,217 owed to group undertakings (2024).

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

12 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: The Oakhaven Trust — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 09/08/2016.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Total income
£10.2m
Total spending
£8.9m
Cost of raising funds
£871k
Reserves (reported)
£5.1m
Employees
257

Reported reserves equal ~6.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£10.2m£8.9m
31/03/2024£7.5m£9.0m
31/03/2023£8.8m£8.0m
31/03/2022£8.6m£7.0m
31/03/2021£7.6m£6.2m

Common questions

Is THE OAKHAVEN TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £1.13m for the year ended 31 March 2025, a significant improvement from the previous year's loss, driven largely by exceptional legacy income. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stand at £5.08m, equating to 8.48 months of charitable expenditure, providing a buffer against the unpredictability of legacy funding. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Hopper Williams & Bell Limited.

Who funds THE OAKHAVEN TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE OAKHAVEN TRUST as a grant recipient include THE BRENDA VERA COOPER CHARITABLE WILL TRUST, THE BURRY CHARITABLE TRUST, THE BEAVERBROOK FOUNDATION, THE HARAMEAD TRUST, Waterside Community Fund.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 Oxhaven Trust.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE OAKHAVEN TRUST£10.2m——above—no doubt
Oxhaven Trust FY2025£183k—0within—no doubt
Havens Hospices FY2025£20.6m£110,000 - £119,999—unclear—no doubt
GREAT OAKS HOSPICE FY2025£1.7m£80,001 - £90,000—unclear—no doubt
PARKHAVEN TRUST FY2025£7.7m——unclear11.0%no doubt
HOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD LTD FY2025£6.1m—0above32.0%no doubt

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