Overall GiG Score: 15 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

THAMES HOSPICE 

The local charity supporting people living in East Berkshire and South Buckinghamshire, providing expert nursing and medical care, with emotional and practical support for adults who have illnesses from which they are not expected to recover. Our free of charge care and support extends to family, friends and carers: in our hospice; at our Community Therapy Unit and patients' homes, 365 days a year
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £32,729,000 available, equivalent to 26 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 19 years

www.thameshospice.org.uk

contact@thameshospice.org.uk

01753842121

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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*£16,656£15,277£1,379£6,456£33,020£32,72925.7330856
31/03/22£15,537£13,519£2,018£5,975£32,052£31,72028.2294727
31/03/21£13,035£11,249£1,786£4,902£27,057£26,71728.5260596
31/03/20£12,627£10,398£2,229£5,122£25,070£24,78328.6254663
31/03/19£11,356£9,796£1,560£4,345£22,949£22,44627.5247613
31/03/18£9,092£8,058£1,034£3,893£20,996£20,68630.82320
31/03/17£6,679£6,957£-278£3,620£20,050£19,98834.51450
31/03/16£6,612£6,513£99£3,156£19,230£19,12735.21210
31/03/15£8,179£6,473£1,706£2,913£19,646£19,56736.31150
31/03/14£5,380£6,017£-637£2,703£17,446£17,36034.61070
31/03/13£11,478£5,599£5,879£2,393£17,888£17,58137.7970
31/03/12£5,969£5,459£510£2,153£11,464£11,35525980
31/03/11£6,370£5,564£806£2,293£10,924£10,79923.31050
31/03/10£4,976£5,564£-588£2,314£10,103£9,55720.61100
31/03/09£7,214£5,288£1,926£2,160£9,885£9,262211060
31/03/08£5,434£4,970£464£1,908£8,548£8,00019.3940
31/03/07£4,648£4,549£99£1,566£8,228£7,70520.3990
31/03/06£4,481£4,696£-216£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 56.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 42.5%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 6%
Liabilities/Income: 12%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 99%
Reserves/Spending: 25.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 2.1
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 330 employees
  • 856 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bracknell Forest, Buckinghamshire, Reading, Slough, Surrey, West Berkshire, Windsor And Maidenhead, Wokingham,

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
National Lottery Community Fund£330,659
Wolfson Foundation£100,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
Masonic Trust£12,315
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Thames Hospice
£500 28/04/2022
Anonymous donation
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice
£2,315 10/11/2021
Unrestricted funding for hospices
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID impacted bereavement support
£310,875 27/10/2021
The funding will help expand the organisation's current services to include mental health and wellbeing support for families facing traumatic bereavements due to the pandemic and Covd-19 ....more
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Thames Hospice - 02/05/21
£5,000 14/06/2021
Core Funding
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting better mental health for Hospice staff
£9,951 16/04/2021
The funding will be used to deliver an enhanced programme of support for hospice staff. The project aims to help key workers who have been under increased mental stress during the pandemic.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000 26/02/2021
Thames Hospice Capital Appeal – Raising the Care
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Thames Hospice
£100,000 09/12/2020
WF Covid-19 Support Fund
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£10,000 10/07/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Heathrow Community Trust - Palliative care for Covid19 - PPE and equipment.
£5,000 03/04/2020
6
Thames Hospice is on the front line of the fight against COVID-19 in our community. We are caring for two of the most vulnerable groups: our existing patients whose underlying medical conditions make ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Thames Hospice
£5,763 15/11/2019
We want to give adults with life-limiting illnesses a boost with a morning of social and cultural activities and complementary therapies.
National Lottery Community Fund - Dementia Friendly Hospice
£9,833 07/08/2019
12
Dementia Friendly Hospice
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£5,000 22/05/2019
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£5,000 22/05/2019
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£5,000 28/03/2019
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£5,000 22/02/2019
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Thames Hospice
£121,949 23/10/2018
36
This project will provide group work and 1-2-1 support for children and young people experiencing bereavement. Young people will develop coping strategies, feel less isolated and improve ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - supporting people with hearing loss in our community
£10,000 21/06/2018
12
The project will support people with hearing loss and will provide deaf awareness training, deaf awareness e-learning and licences and group listening device and receivers.
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Thames Hospice
£100,000 14/06/2018
New hospice
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£100,000 23/05/2018
Thames Hospice, Building for the Future Together
Masonic Trust - Hospice Grant
£2,530 18/10/2017
Core funding for hospices
Masonic Trust - Hospice Grant
£3,576 19/10/2016
Core funding for hospices
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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: 39-78
  • ALICE HUNT Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Head Of Performance Management
  • ANDY KA Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Accountant
  • JANET KING Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director - Healthcare
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/02/2005, number: 1108298
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/12/2004, number: 05316964
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
18 returns made; AR23: 6 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from WINDSOR DEDWORTH MANOR TOWNSWOMEN'S GUILD on 15/03/2023
Main office

Thames Hospice
Windsor Road
MAIDENHEAD
Berkshire
SL6 2DN

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE RELIEF OF ILLNESS, IN PARTICULAR OF THOSE PERSONS SUFFERING FROM CANCER OR OTHER LIFE LIMITING ILLNESS, AND THE SUPPORT OF THEIR CARERS, FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND DEPENDANTS DURING AND AFTER SUCH ILLNESS, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY SEES FIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. BERKSHIRE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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