Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

HOSPICE UK 

Hospice UK is the national charity working for those experiencing death, dying and bereavement. Our strategic goals underpin our programmes and aim to ensure hospice quality care is delivered in any setting; tackle inequality and widen access to hospice care; build community capacity and resilience and empower a strong, dynamic and responsive hospice sector.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end
  • Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained
Established: 32 years

www.hospiceuk.org

info@hospiceuk.org

02075208200

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£8,578£7,782£796£1,472£12,206£10,68616.5831
31/03/22£109,132£105,145£3,987£1,647£11,630£10,1071.2791
31/03/21£264,355£263,564£791£1,104£7,564£6,6410.3821
31/03/20£6,376£6,450£-74£1,241£6,351£5,1519.6721
31/03/19*£7,193£6,734£459£1,188£6,666£5,61610671
31/03/18£7,772£6,883£889£1,211£6,159£5,2029.1620
31/03/17£5,876£5,496£380£1,264£5,285£4,63710.1530
31/03/16£5,545£5,596£-51£1,304£4,566£4,0208.6540
31/03/15£6,431£6,779£-348£1,696£4,786£4,2667.6570
31/03/14£66,533£67,016£-483£1,592£4,886£4,2540.8590
31/03/13£5,995£6,834£-839£1,547£5,223£4,5828690
31/03/12£6,574£7,802£-1,228£1,487£5,786£5,3518.2690
31/03/11£7,344£7,624£-280£1,670£6,982£6,2129.8680
31/03/10£6,073£5,889£184£1,424£7,163£5,87512670
31/03/09£7,974£5,864£2,110£1,016£6,740£5,95712.2630
31/03/08£6,130£6,316£-186£1,180£4,967£4,0387.7580
31/03/07£5,913£6,535£-622£1,150£5,358£4,1117.5550
31/03/06£6,301£6,572£-271£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£6,887£5,518£1,369£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£3,961£4,172£-211£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 17.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 18.9%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 13%
Highest pay band: £100,000-£110,000
Liabilities/Assets: 22%
Liabilities/Income: 41%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 88%
Reserves/Spending: 16.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 12 months
Quick Ratio: 2.9
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Guernsey, Isle Of Man, Jersey, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 83 employees
  • 1 volunteer

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Department of Health£530,601,089
Masonic Trust£600,000
Wolfson Foundation£600,000
The Baring Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice UK Partnership
£300,000 23/03/2023
Hospice UK themed partnership grants - Poverty and Deprivation - cost of living crisis
Department of Health - Hospice UK
£22,008 31/01/2023
Through the HW Alliance, policy teams can work collaboratively with the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations, accessing the sectors expertise and connecting policy leads ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice UK Partnership
£300,000 09/11/2022
MCF Hospice UK Bursary Scheme -
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Hospice UK
£600,000 08/06/2022
Renewal of bursary scheme
Department of Health - Hospice UK
£148,000,000 22/01/2022
4800 in patient and hospice at home beds daily49,920 community contacts including access to 24/7 specialist palliative and end of life care adviceThe expected outcomes are to sustain the hospice ....more
Department of Health - Health and Wellbeing Alliance 21/22 to 23/24 Hospice UK
£90,000 01/07/2021
Through the HW Alliance, policy teams can work collaboratively with the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations, accessing the sectors expertise and connecting policy leads ....more
Department of Health - Hospice PPE Reimbursement
£165,000 01/04/2021
To reimburse primary care contractor groups, in line with the Chief Secretary to the Treasurys direction to the Department.
Department of Health - Hospice Capacity Funding
£125,000,000 01/11/2020
The expected outcomes are to sustain the hospice sector during the pandemic and also enable hospices to support the pandemic response, to enable discharge with additional capacity.
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Hospice UK
£5,000 14/09/2020
Support for new forms of service provision: to enable Hospice UK to support the hospice sector in coordinating Covid-19 responses.
Department of Health - Palliative & End of Life Care Consortium (Supplier: Hospice UK)
£60,000 28/04/2020
See HWA summary:Working with the VCSE sector - encourange two way flow of information and inteliigence betweeen the Sector and the System.
Department of Health - Hospices PPE Cost Reimbursement
£165,091 01/04/2020
reimburse primary care contractor groups, in line with the Chief Secretary to the Treasurys direction to the Department, for the monies they spent on PPE early on in the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Department of Health - Hospice Covid-19 Emergency Grant
£257,098,990 01/04/2020
The added capacity will ease winter and COVID-19 pressures on local health systems providing step-up and step-down facilities and crisis management to keep people out of hospitals.Providers will need ....more
Department of Health - Health and Wellbeing Alliance-Hospice UK
£60,000 01/04/2019
The Health & Wellbeing Alliance consists of 21 organisations from the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector. These organisations engage in intensive co-production with system ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice
£10,000 01/03/2019
Unrestricted funding for hospices
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Hospice UK
£600,000 14/06/2018
36
Wolfson bursaries for training for hospice/palliative care medical staff (over three years)
Ministry of Defence - Supporting delivery of a public service
£29,322 01/04/2018
The Grant will fund projects that support non-core health, wellbeing and social care needs for older veterans (born before 1 January 1950) including surviving World War 2 veterans, those who ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - LICC Young People's Empowerment Project
£9,636 28/02/2018
12
This project will engage young people and local networks, provide training to young volunteers to build confidence, self-esteem and resilience.
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Led Hospice Care
£323,294 26/07/2017
24
The funding will be used to extend hospice care for adults and children throughout England with a terminal or life shortening condition. The project will focus on five pioneering projects across ....more
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Hospice UK
£200,000 16/06/2017
Wolfson bursaries for training for hospice/palliative care medical staff
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Hospice UK
£23,190 16/05/2017
Develop an Equalities Skills Builder project to train all UK hospice staff in the adoption of a human rights based approach to end of life care.
Department of Health - Hospice UK
£25,000 01/04/2017
Making the 6 point end of life care commitment a relity for people from various groups: gyspsy and traveller communities, LGBTQ and homeless people
National Lottery Community Fund - COLLABORATE: Zimbabwe Community HIV Care
£499,984 24/06/2013
36
The project based in Goromonzi, Zimbabwe, aims to enhance the quality of life of vulnerable individuals marginalised by HIV improving their health and wellness. Appropriate community led and ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 35-69
  • CHLOE CHIK Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Senior Manager
  • EMMA REYNOLDS Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Corporate Affairs Director
  • PAUL JENNINGS (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Chief Executive
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/10/1992, number: 1014851
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/09/1992, number: 02751549
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR19: 3 days late, AR05: 12 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PALLIATIVE CARE EDUCATORS (NAPCE) on 06/08/2019
  • Asset transfer in from THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PALLIATIVE CARE on 04/09/2019
  • Asset transfer in from FRIENDS OF KEY WORKERS on 09/11/2021
  • Asset transfer in from PELSALL DISABLED PERSONS ORGANISATION on 20/09/2022
Main office

Hospice UK
34-44 Britannia Street
London
WC1X 9JG

Objectives

(A) TO FACILITATE AND PROMOTE THE RELIEF, CARE AND TREATMENT OF THE SICK, ESPECIALLY OF THE DYING, AND THE SUPPORT AND CARE OF THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS AND OF THE BEREAVED; (B) TO FACILITATE AND PROMOTE THE CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES OF THOSE PERSONS (WHETHER INDIVIDUALS OR ORGANISATIONS0 WHICH PROVIDE AND/OR SUPPORT HOSPICE CARE; (C) TO PROVIDE OR FACILITATE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR PROFESSIONALS AND VOLUNTEERS ENGAGED IN PALLIATIVE CARE AND INCREASE AWARENESS AMONG THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE VALUES, PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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