Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Income diversified: +3
  • Large legacies income: +1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs high: -3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

ST CHRISTOPHERS HOSPICE

St Christopher's Hospice exists to promote and provide skilled and compassionate palliative care of the highest quality. This high quality service is delivered to over 2,000 dying individuals and their families, friends and carers every year. We share our skills and expertise with others in the field through our extensive education and training programme and research into improving care.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Income generation is well diversified
  • This charity has received considerable income from legacies in recent years
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end especially considering the historic stability of income
  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£27,541£28,528£-987£5,535£46,755£44,39418.74751,199
31/03/23£27,229£25,320£1,909£4,888£45,538£42,80820.34861,017
31/03/22£29,487£22,552£6,935£4,719£44,569£41,61422.1348968
31/03/21£27,337£22,867£4,470£5,048£37,387£34,27418376730
31/03/20?*£22,850£22,887£-37£6,088£30,923£27,64914.54751,200
31/03/18£20,347£21,719£-1,372£1,829£28,972£26,22414.54500
31/03/17£20,080£21,349£-1,269£4,823£29,660£27,16015.34650
31/03/16£20,931£20,349£582£4,120£29,559£26,87015.83770
31/03/15£19,496£19,382£114£3,716£27,724£24,91115.43580
31/03/14£19,170£23,281£-4,111£2,575£27,954£24,89812.83110
31/03/13£17,644£17,507£137£2,495£32,185£29,32120.12930
31/03/12£18,241£17,042£1,199£2,358£31,061£28,48520.12790
31/03/11£19,119£17,174£1,945£2,210£30,703£28,75520.12810
31/03/10£16,403£16,126£277£2,134£27,240£25,92819.32910
31/03/09£17,664£15,087£2,577£1,939£26,184£24,06219.12810
31/03/08£18,422£13,183£5,239£1,508£24,033£21,940202310
31/03/07£13,235£11,676£1,559£1,381£19,180£18,16418.72280
31/03/06£12,878£10,813£2,065n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£11,381£11,302£79n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£12,236£10,820£1,416n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 26.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 19.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 9%
Highest pay band: £150,000-£200,000
Liabilities/Assets: 5%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 95%
Reserves/Spending: 18.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 2
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 62 years

www.stchristophers.org.uk

info@stchristophers.org.uk

02087684500

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Hospice & bereavement services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
City Bridge Trust£170,250
National Lottery Heritage Fund£131,600
BBC Children in Need£129,893
Wolfson Foundation£125,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
London Catalyst - St Christopher's Hospice - 13
£1,250 08/12/2022
Hardship Fund
BBC Children in Need - Grant to St Christophers Hospice
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to St. Christopher’s Hospice
£500 12/01/2022
Anna Austin Staff Sponsorship in support of fund raising dinner
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice
£2,780 10/11/2021
Unrestricted funding for hospices
London Catalyst - St Christopher's Hospice - 12
£1,300 03/06/2021
Hardship Fund
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice UK Partnership
£25,000 31/03/2021
Dementia Caring Pathways - Widening Access – Improving Equality and Diversity in Hospice Care
BBC Children in Need - Grant to St Christophers Hospice
£114,438 20/12/2020
This project will deliver one to one and group counselling for bereaved children and young people. The activities will result in improved communication, improved family relationships and decreased anxiety.
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to St Christopher's Hospice
£125,000 09/12/2020
WF Covid-19 Support Fund
BBC Children in Need - Grant to St Christophers Hospice
£14,955 30/11/2020
This project will deliver counselling and group work for young people who have suffered from a bereavement and are isolated due to Covid-19. The activities will result in better communication, improved family relationships and feeling less anxious.
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice
£3,095 14/10/2020
Unrestricted funding for hospices
City Bridge Trust - Grant to St Christopher's Hospice
£5,000 24/04/2020
A grant of £5,000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to St Christopher's Hospice
£131,600 04/03/2020
The Birthplace of The Modern Hospice Movement: An Oral History of St Christopher's
City Bridge Trust - Grant to St Christopher's Hospice
£165,250 30/01/2020
36
£165,250 over three years for the salary and associated costs of a Project Manager to adapt and establish Compassionate Neighbours to support older, frail, socially isolated people in Bromley.
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to St Christopher's Hospice
£85,458 08/10/2019
36
Coach4Care - empowering family carers to be resilient in their role, by matching them with former carers for coaching.
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice
£3,080 19/09/2019
Unrestricted funding for hospices
National Lottery Community Fund - Riser Recliner Chairs for the Hospice
£9,300 31/05/2019
12
The funding will be used to buy new special chairs for the patients and visitors of a hospice. The project aims to improve existing facilities and provide better care.
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to St Christopher's Hospice
£35,507 22/01/2019
12
Developing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) at St Christopher’s Hospice, to better support elderly end of life patients at home
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice
£2,822 04/10/2018
Unrestricted funding for hospices
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£100,000 19/09/2018
Learning Hub
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to St Christopher's Hospice
£500,000 14/06/2018
Learning Hub
BBC Children in Need - Grant to St Christophers Hospice
£108,897 02/03/2018
36
Bereavement counselling and support groups for 470 children and young people. Children and young people will be supported to positively process their grief, remember those they have lost and communicate better with others.
Masonic Trust - Hospice UK partnership
£20,000 21/02/2018
To establish Bereavement Help-Points in South East London.
Masonic Trust - Hospice Grant
£4,620 18/10/2017
Core funding for hospices
National Lottery Community Fund - St Christopher's Therapeutic Ward Bath Project
£9,821 18/01/2017
12
This project will use funding to install a therapeutic bath for patients who are elderly, vulnerable or terminally ill. This will provide them with a facility that benefits their health and wellbeing.
Masonic Trust - Hospice Grant
£7,870 19/10/2016
Core funding for hospices
National Lottery Community Fund - Specialist Riser Recliner Chair Project
£10,000 09/01/2014
12
The project for Lewisham West and Penge will use the funding to provide specialist recliner chairs that will encourage movement and exercise for beneficiaries receiving palliative care.
National Lottery Community Fund - The People's Garden
£10,000 30/03/2010
11
A project by this group based in Bromley to refurbish their pavilion. The project will upgrade and modernise the facilities so patients at the hospice and their relatives can interact in a relaxing environment. The project will also increase the use ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 11/12 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 42-73
  • ANTHONY JOHN HUNTER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Chair Doncaster Children'S Services Trust
  • CATHERINE EMMA JANE MCDONALD Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Public Sector
  • DEEPTI TOWNSEND Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Owner Dts (Uk) Ltd
  • ELEANOR MARY BROWN Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Retired
  • GLENDA BONDE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Hr Professional
  • JOHN ANDREW KING Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Banker
  • NEIL GOULDEN (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director
  • NICHOLAS DIAMOND Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Executive Director
  • PROF DANIEL KELLY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Rcn Professor
  • PROFESSOR IAN JUDSON Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired
  • SATVINDER REYATT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Executive Director Of People, Finance & Governance
  • VIVIAN PAUL BAZALGETTE MA Appointed: 2016
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/10/1962, number: 210667
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/01/1961, number: 00681880
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
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
20 returns made; AR20: 22 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from LEWISHAM BEREAVEMENT COUNSELLING on 12/10/2020
Main office

51-59 LAWRIE PARK ROAD
SYDENHAM
LONDON
SE26 6DZ

Objectives

The objects for which the Charity is established (the Objects) are to promote the relief of suffering (so far as such purpose is charitable) in such ways as the Trustees shall from time to time think fit, and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of such object) by:3.1 establishing, maintaining and providing hospice care and home care services in England and Wales for the reception and care of people of who are suffering (at any age) from any chronic or terminal illness, or from any disability of disease attributable to old age, or from any other physical or mental infirmity, disability or disease;3.2 providing or assisting in or encouraging the provision of spiritual help and guidance for such people, their families and carers;3.3 providing such other care, support and assistance to the families and carers of such people as the Trustees shall from time to time think fit;3.4 conducting, promoting or encouraging research into the care of such people, particularly but not exclusively those who are suffering from cancer or terminal illness;3.5 promoting, encouraging or assisting in the teaching or training of doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and other persons engaged in health and social care, and of students in any branch of medicine, surgery, nursing, health and social care or allied services; and3.6 providing bereavement counselling services for adults and children.

Defined Area of Benefit:

ENGLAND AND WALES

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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