Overall GiG Score: 11 ?
Finance Score: -7
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9

DOROTHY HOUSE 

An independent Hospice offering a wide range of services and education in the provision of specialist palliative care to a local population of around 500,000 people. All services in the community and the hospice are provided free of charge and with equal access to all.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and a Community Foundation
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 46 years

www.dorothyhouse.org.uk

info@dorothyhouse-hospice.org.uk

01225722988

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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£15,384£16,790£-1,406£5,262£15,666£15,62111.23091,002
31/03/22£16,323£13,804£2,519£4,876£17,336£17,33615.1283811
31/03/21£14,490£13,865£625£5,141£14,589£14,58912.6290994
31/03/20£13,666£14,328£-662£5,368£13,223£13,22311.13081,023
31/03/19£12,538£14,597£-2,059£5,386£14,222£10,7788.92991,053
31/03/18£13,452£13,240£213£4,992£15,855£12,42611.32720
31/03/17£12,960£12,715£245£5,000£15,838£12,32711.62600
31/03/16£11,073£11,804£-731£4,428£14,563£11,26111.42540
31/03/15£10,782£11,536£-754£4,214£15,513£12,12012.62310
31/03/14£10,377£10,446£-69£3,733£15,815£12,46214.32140
31/03/13£8,386£9,121£-734£2,947£15,755£12,71416.71980
31/03/12£7,937£8,328£-391£2,533£15,706£12,56518.11760
31/03/11£8,500£7,876£623£2,320£16,217£12,96219.71600
31/03/10£8,574£6,856£1,718£1,930£15,181£12,15721.31470
31/03/09£7,465£6,263£1,202£1,767£12,572£9,49618.21360
31/03/08£8,378£5,594£2,785£1,572£12,181£9,04719.41270
31/03/07£6,622£4,968£1,655£1,399£9,454£6,67016.11180
31/03/06£5,626£4,612£1,015£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£4,830£4,468£362£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£4,768£3,965£803£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 60.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 31.5%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 9%
Highest pay band: £100,000-£110,000
Liabilities/Assets: 15%
Liabilities/Income: 17%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 11.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 309 employees
  • 1,002 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Bath And North East Somerset, Somerset, Wiltshire,

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
Garfield Weston Foundation£40,000
Masonic Trust£37,296
Wiltshire Community Foundation£30,000
BBC Children in Need£29,541
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer Companions for Terminally-ill Patients and their Carers
£8,979 23/09/2022
The hospice will continue and develop their volunteer companionship services for terminally ill patients and their carers offering respite friendship interaction and support from specially trained ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Dorothy House Hospice Care
£1,000 01/06/2022
As requested by the fund holder towards supporting the work of Dorothy House to provide compassionate care and support for patients and families affected by life-limiting illness. Our focus is on ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Dorothy House Hospice
£15,000 06/04/2022
Dorothy House Hospice provides end-of-life care and support. Funding will help meet the costs of their support for bereaved children and young people.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000 04/04/2022
The Expansion and Enhancement of Community Palliative Care
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice UK Partnership
£34,576 31/03/2022
The World Can be a Day Patient’s Oyster Too: Using Virtual Reality to Aid Patient Wellbeing Within the Day Hospice and at Home - Reimagining Day Hospice Services
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£1,250 27/01/2022
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice
£1,470 10/11/2021
Unrestricted funding for hospices
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer Companions for Terminally-ill Patients and their Carers
£8,466 02/07/2021
The funding will be used to continue to deliver a 'Volunteer Companionship' service for terminally ill patients and their carers.
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Dorothy House Hospice Care - 05/05/21
£5,000 14/06/2021
Core Funding
Somerset Community Foundation - COVID19 Nurse specialists for people with life-limiting illnesses
£1,000 06/04/2021
COVID19 Nurse specialists for people with life-limiting illnesses
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Dorothy House Hospice
£10,000 22/09/2020
7
Specialist nursing care in the community for people with life-limiting illness.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Dorothy House Hospice
£5,000 14/05/2020
To support the costs of hospice care in the home for vulnerable clients.
Somerset Community Foundation - COVID19 Contribution towards a hospice at home service in Mendip
£3,500 30/03/2020
1
Contribution towards a hospice at home service in Mendip
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Dorothy House Foundation
£29,541 08/08/2019
36
This project will provide play and craft activities to children and their families to help them cope with bereavement. It will increase their coping skills, reduce feelings of isolation and create ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice UK Partnership
£13,613 28/02/2019
Friends in Grief - Bereavement Support
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Hospice at Home advancement
£5,000 27/02/2019
Dorothy House Hospice provides end of life care and support. Funding will go towards the costs of providing end of life care for people in their own homes.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Dorothy House Hospice Care (DHHC)
£3,489 19/11/2018
Help fund our Creative Keepsakes project giving patients and families the space to make pieces of art that live beyond bereavement.
Somerset Community Foundation - Hospice at Home Advancement Pilot
£5,000 28/06/2018
11
Pilot 'hospice at home' project offering respite, end of life and crisis care to local residents
Somerset Community Foundation - DHHC Hospice at Home service in Mendip, Somerset
£5,000 08/02/2017
11
Hospice at Home service
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Dorothy House Hospice
£5,000 13/11/2015
12
Dorothy House Hospice Care is an independent hospice delivering ‘compassionate caring for our community, supporting patients and their families with life-limiting illness to live and die well’. ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 42-78
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/06/1978, number: 275745
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/04/1978, number: 01360961
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
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; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from HOSPICE 23 on 19/05/2023
Main office

DOROTHY HOUSE HOSPICE CARE
WINSLEY
BRADFORD-ON-AVON
BA15 2LE

Objectives

The objects for which the Charity is established are, for the public benefit, to promote by such charitable means as the Trustees shall from time to time think fit the relief of sickness among people suffering from any chronic or life limiting illnesses of any description through the provision of treatment, holistic care, financial assistance, support, education and practical advice for such individuals, their families, dependants and carers and to advance the education of the general public in all areas relating to such conditions.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED (IN PRACTICE AVON, WILTSHIRE AND SOMERSET)

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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