Overall GiG Score: 8 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 9
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Fundraising costs high: -4
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9

SAINT FRANCIS HOSPICE 

The Hospice aims to provide timely holistic care. This care may be provided to address needs which are; physical, emotional, social (Inclusive of environmental and diversity challenges people face) and spiritual in order to enhance the quality of life of each individual patient and those important to them.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • 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 gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

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 extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 46 years

www.sfh.org.uk

mail@sfh.org.uk

01708753319

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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£11,883£11,613£270£3,391£19,608£19,32920251631
31/03/22£11,772£10,759£1,013£3,209£19,778£19,44021.7249619
31/03/21£12,557£10,646£1,911£2,963£18,494£18,22920.52530
31/03/20£12,291£11,111£1,180£1,484£15,722£15,54116.8275780
31/03/19*£12,997£11,022£1,975£3,326£15,132£14,62215.9292839
31/03/18£10,886£10,317£569£3,070£12,996£12,49514.52870
31/03/17*£11,268£11,069£199£3,183£12,424£11,91712.92970
31/03/16£11,175£10,674£501£3,077£11,634£3,0363.42980
31/03/15£10,590£10,391£199£3,141£11,307£11,14012.92830
31/03/14£10,845£9,693£1,152£2,951£10,834£10,57013.11950
31/03/13£9,028£8,836£192£2,497£9,527£9,45512.82050
31/03/12£9,560£8,721£839£2,571£9,073£6,54291950
31/03/11£8,165£8,150£15£1,924£8,262£5,6068.31620
31/03/10£8,081£7,370£711£1,614£8,247£5,55691460
31/03/09£7,003£8,116£-1,113£1,413£7,536£4,72971400
31/03/08£6,556£6,847£-291£1,215£8,649£5,87410.31380
31/03/07£7,223£6,141£1,082£1,127£8,940£6,07511.91370
31/03/06*£4,421£4,674£-253£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£4,248£4,472£-223£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£4,512£3,997£515£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 37.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 29.2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 5%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 99%
Reserves/Spending: 20 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 11 months
Quick Ratio: 9.4
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 251 employees
  • 631 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Essex, Isles Of Scilly, Lancashire, Throughout London,

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£343,687
City Bridge Trust£231,000
Wolfson Foundation£50,000
Masonic Trust£22,594
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Saint Francis Hospice
£231,000 05/04/2023
£231,000 over five years (£41,800, £43,900, £46,100, £48,400, £50,800) towards a 1 FTE Child and Family Therapist to provide therapeutic support for children and young people, as well as ....more
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to St. Francis Hospice
£2,500 07/07/2022
towards staff costs of the therapies and wellbeing team at a hospice supporting adults with life limiting illnesses in West Essex
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice
£1,890 10/11/2021
Unrestricted funding for hospices
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice UK Partnership
£20,704 06/03/2020
To facilitate rough sleepers and vulnerably housed people, to better access palliative care services
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Saint Francis Hospice
£50,000 13/06/2019
Roof repairs and other maintenance work to improve conditions for patients and staff
National Lottery Community Fund - Deaf Aware
£9,816 23/05/2019
12
The funding will be used to purchase hearing aids and deliver specialist training. The project aims to better the support provision for people living with the effects of hearing impairment.
London Marathon Charitable Trust - Turning patients back into people – purchase of Motomed Muvi for Pemberton Place day hospice
£6,335 26/04/2019
Towards a Motomed Muvi, a rehabilitative piece of equipment to provide specialist palliative care to people with life limiting illness, through exercise and movement based therapy for arms and legs. ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching further doing more
£333,871 18/04/2019
36
The project will provide telephone support to reduce social isolation and loneliness, to those affected by a life limiting illness. The helpline provides social conversation, signposting, and advice ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 13/06/2018
Smart Hubs
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Saint Francis Hospice
£75,500 14/03/2018
24
£75,500 over two years (£37,200; £38,300) for a full-time Project Co-ordinator and support costs to establish a new one-to-one service for socially isolated carers. The funds to be restricted for ....more
Masonic Trust - Hospice UK partnership
£20,000 21/02/2018
Pre- and post- bereavement support for lonely isolated carers
Masonic Trust - Hospice Grant
£2,710 18/10/2017
Core funding for hospices
Masonic Trust - Hospice Grant
£3,719 19/10/2016
Core funding for hospices
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Saint Francis Hospice
£129,474 11/10/2016
36
This project will provide theraputic support and positive experiences for young people who have been bereaved, to help improve their emotional well being, strengthen family relationships, and develop ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - TalkSupport
£366,692 12/08/2015
36
This is a new project which aims to support people affected by life limiting illnesses coping with an end of life experience in the Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Brentwood areas. The ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Garden Spa Room
£10,000 27/05/2015
12
A garden spa will be created for the benefit of hospice patients and carers to receive valuable treatments for their wellbeing.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Saint Francis Hospice
£89,700 07/08/2013
Pemberton's hybrid musk roses restored to The Hall at Havering-atte-Bower where they were originally bred
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 65-79
  • ANNE BENDER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Company Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/06/1978, number: 275913
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/05/1978, number: 01367828
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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR19: 7 days late, AR17: 1 days late, AR06: 1 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE WOODFORD WELLS ECUMENICAL CHURCH TRUST on 01/04/2021
Main office

ST. FRANCIS HOSPICE
THE HALL
BROXHILL ROAD
HAVERING-ATTE-BOWER
ROMFORD
RM4 1QH

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF PERSONS OF EITHER SEX (WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE OR CREED) WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM ANY CHRONIC OR TERMINAL ILLNESS OR FROM ANY DISABILITY OR DISEASE ATTRIBUTABLE TO OLD AGE OR FROM ANY OTHER PHYSICAL OR MENTAL INFIRMITY DISABILITY OR DISEASE IN SUCH WAYS AS THE ASSOCIATION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF SUCH OBJECT).

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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