Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

WOKING HOSPICE 

The provision of palliative and other appropriate care to persons suffering from a terminal and/or chronic illness within a hospice(s) or within the community with the object of improving the conditions of life for such persons.To relieve the emotional and mental needs of the patients, families, carers, staff and volunteers who assist in the care of patients.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 24 years

www.wsbh.org.uk

info@wsbh.org.uk

01483881750

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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£8,163£9,272£-1,109£3,002£14,173£14,09218.2180650
31/03/22£9,887£8,797£1,090£2,500£15,293£15,23520.8192650
31/03/21£10,178£8,441£1,737£2,278£7,543£7,46610.6237550
31/03/20£8,041£8,509£-468£2,596£5,806£5,7488.1246800
31/03/19£8,224£8,650£-426£2,573£6,029£5,9748.3248785
31/03/18£8,509£8,436£73£2,824£6,455£6,4249.11790
31/03/17£9,236£8,308£928£2,900£4,724£3,8625.61680
31/03/16*£8,351£8,911£-560£3,534£3,796£2,7713.72160
31/03/15£7,538£8,516£-978£3,265£4,358£3,7065.21970
31/03/14£8,689£7,331£1,358£2,947£5,497£4,6757.71610
31/03/13£6,976£6,902£74£2,746£4,139£3,8566.71670
31/03/12£6,160£5,639£521£2,262£4,064£3,8958.31330
31/03/11£3,605£2,957£648£1,296£2,904£2,83511.5890
31/03/10£5,465£4,795£670£1,585£2,495£2,4616.21490
31/03/09£4,047£4,416£-368£1,316£1,825£1,7624.81240
31/03/08£3,818£3,974£-155£1,143£2,238£1,8865.7870
31/03/07£3,339£3,175£165£1,056£2,071£2,0417.7550
31/03/06£1,900£1,928£-28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£1,775£1,787£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£1,497£1,554£-57£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 67.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 32.4%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 10%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 9%
Liabilities/Income: 18%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 99%
Reserves/Spending: 18.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 2.2
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Surrey,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 180 employees
  • 650 volunteers

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
Wolfson Foundation£46,100
Community Foundation for Surrey£17,977
Co-Operative Group£8,654
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Woking & Sam Beare Hospice and Wellbeing Care
£3,246 21/10/2023
Tommy D are group sessions to support children who have, or will soon experience, the death of a loved one. They provide a safe, supportive, social and creative environment for the children.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Wellbeing - Horticultural Therapy
£3,000 20/10/2022
Funding for a horticulture project for terminally-ill people to improve wellbeing and tackle isolation.
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Woking & Sam Beare Hospice
£46,100 08/06/2022
Reconfiguration of clinical office space and equipment to enable the integration of clinical teams providing palliative care in north west Surrey
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Woking & Sam Beare Hospice - 01/10/21
£5,000 29/11/2021
Core Funding
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice
£1,940 10/11/2021
Unrestricted funding for hospices
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Woking & Sam Beare Hospice and Wellbeing Care
£2,777 23/10/2021
We want to connect with our patients and offer them online classes to help manage their stress and anxiety and to provide them with essential communication during this time.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Community Nursing Service
£5,000 18/10/2021
6
Funding to provide 58 home visits from the Community Nursing Team to people in need across North West Surrey.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Woking & Sam Beare Hospices
£2,631 24/10/2020
We would like to host an Easter egg hunt for the whole community to take part in while raising awareness and vital funds for the hospice.
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice
£2,765 14/10/2020
Unrestricted funding for hospices
Community Foundation for Surrey - COVID-19 Response - Healthcare
£5,000 17/04/2020
Funding toward a salary of a temporary member of staff for an hospice, based in Woking, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Patient Counselling at Home
£4,977 01/04/2020
11
Funding for one to one counselling sessions for terminally ill patients in their homes, by a hospice that is based in north Surrey.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Woking and Sam Beare Hospices
£5,524 29/11/2017
We want to buy some equipment to kit out a room in our new hospice to allow families to stay over with their loved ones.
Masonic Trust - Hospice Grant
£2,800 18/10/2017
Core funding for hospices
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Woking and Sam Beare Hospices
£91,378 14/06/2017
36
This project provides one-to-one, group and family support for bereaved children and young people, enabling them to improve their family relationships, better engage with education and make positive ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - Developing a new state-of-the-art hospice
£15,017 20/10/2016
17
Capital equipment for a new hospice in Goldsworth Park, Woking, which will combine the two existing in-patient units and day centres onto one site for the first time, enabling better care, for more ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 48-70
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/10/2000, number: 1082798
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/03/2000, number: 03955487
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
  • 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; AR16: 4 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE BUSENHART - MORGAN - EVANS FOUNDATION on 25/04/2023
Main office

Woking Hospice
The Goldsworth Park Centre
WOKING
GU21 3LG

Objectives

(1) TO PROVIDE RELIEF BY PALLIATIVE AND OTHER APPROPRIATE CARE AND TREATMENT, AND SUPPORT, TO PERSONS SUFFERING FROM TERMINAL AND/OR CHRONIC ILLNESS AND/OR DISEASE AND/OR DISABILITY AND/OR BEREAVEMENT(THE PATIENTS) WITHIN A HOSPICE OR HOSPICES AND WITHIN THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING THE HOMES OF THE PATIENTS WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR SUCH PERSONS;(2) TO RELIEVE THE EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL NEEDS OF THE FAMILIES, CLOSE FRIENDS, CARERS, MEDICAL AND OTHER STAFF, PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE CARE OF THE PATIENTS, BY THE PROVISION OF CARE, ADVICE, SUPPORT AND COUNSELLING, INCLUDING BEREAVEMENT COUNSELLING AND ASSOCIATED SERVICES TO ANY AND/OR ALL OF SUCH PERSONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE SURREY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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