Overall GiG Score: 7 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 5
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5

THE NORTH NORTHUMBERLAND HOSPICE 

Two centre hospice providing therapeutic clinics, hospice at home, lymphoedema management, bereavement support, and a range of complementary therapies.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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 and a Community Foundation
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 20 years

www.hospicecare-nn.org.uk

admin@hospicecare-nn.org.uk

01665606515

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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£808£899£-91£285£1,039£1,02213.644173
31/03/22£1,048£949£99£348£1,130£1,01112.846169
31/03/21£1,090£791£298£318£1,031£8591346200
31/03/20£819£799£20£378£732£6189.342200
31/03/19£774£707£67£323£713£5849.942180
31/03/18£611£573£38£203£646£49810.4330
31/03/17£570£510£60£169£607£42510300
31/03/16£422£394£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£449£371£78£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£385£344£41£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£288£291£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£340£302£38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£251£273£-22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£321£365£-44£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£220£537£-317£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£167£370£-204£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£253£338£-85£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£280£282£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£159£190£-31£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 61.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 31.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 8%
Liabilities/Income: 12%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 98%
Reserves/Spending: 13.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 11 months
Quick Ratio: 6.3
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Disability
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 44 employees
  • 173 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Northumberland,

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
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd£64,784
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland£46,750
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust£5,000
Co-Operative Group£4,405
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to HospiceCare North Northumberland
£1,657 22/10/2022
Our 'Dementia Cafes' provide a support group which offers peer support to those living with dementia within North Northumberland.
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - HospiceCare North Northumberland - 29/09/21
£5,000 29/11/2021
Core Funding
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to The North Northumberland Hospice
£1,000 25/11/2021
General charitable purposes
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice
£1,000 10/11/2021
Unrestricted funding for hospices
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to The North Northumberland Hospice
£3,000 21/10/2021
The organisations charitable activities
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to The North Northumberland Hospice
£250 16/09/2021
Supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to The North Northumberland Hospice
£1,500 19/08/2021
General charitable purposes
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Increased travel costs across rural areas in Northumberland due to COVID-19 restrictions
£5,000 27/05/2021
Increased travel costs across rural areas in Northumberland due to COVID-19 restrictions
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to The North Northumberland Hospice
£5,000 27/05/2021
Increased travel costs across rural areas in Northumberland due to COVID-19 restrictions
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to The North Northumberland Hospice
£500 20/05/2021
Supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to The North Northumberland Hospice
£10,000 29/04/2021
Core costs to develop and grow the services
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to The North Northumberland Hospice
£1,000 29/04/2021
General charitable purposes
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to The North Northumberland Hospice
£10,000 22/04/2021
Travel costs to patients in their homes across North Northumberland
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - improving the organisation's IT infrastructure
£24,784 18/03/2021
improving the organisation's IT infrastructure
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - the organisation's charitable objects
£1,500 14/01/2021
the organisation's charitable objects
Co-Operative Group - Grant to HospiceCare North Northumberland
£2,748 24/10/2020
To host sessions and support groups who are struggling to cope with the pressure of looking after a terminally ill family member.
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Towards the organisations charitable purposes
£5,000 24/09/2020
Towards the organisations charitable purposes
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Additional costs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic
£10,000 24/04/2020
Additional costs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - additional costs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic
£10,000 24/04/2020
additional costs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - core costs to develop and grow the services
£10,000 02/04/2020
core costs to develop and grow the services
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Core costs to develop and grow the organisation's services
£10,000 08/10/2019
Core costs to develop and grow the organisation's services
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Efficient teamwork.
£3,000 13/05/2019
Efficient teamwork.
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Towards running costs
£5,000 27/02/2018
Towards running costs
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Towards core costs for palliative care for hospice at home patients
£7,500 21/10/2015
Towards core costs for palliative care for hospice at home patients
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 59-77
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/05/2004, number: 1103635
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/10/2003, number: 04925273
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
Policies in force
  • 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
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR10: 2 days late, AR09: 17 days late, AR07: 20 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from ROTARY CLUB OF SEAHOUSES AND DISTRICT CHARITABLE TRUST FUND on 12/08/2022
Main office

Unit 3
Greensfield Industrial Estate
Willowburn Avenue
Alnwick
NE66 2DG

Objectives

THE CARE AND RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM POTENTIALLY LIFE-LIMITING ILLNESS, THE SUPPORT OF CARERS AND OF THE BEREAVED, ALL IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, AND PRIMARILY IN NORTH NORTHUMBERLAND.THE PROVISION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR SUCH PERSONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NORTH OF NORTHUMBERLAND

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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