Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 4
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Income diversified: +3
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

ST NICHOLAS HOSPICE SUFFOLK

Care and support to people with life threatening diseases and conditions together with their carers and families including: 12 bedded inpatient unit, day hospice and patient groups, community care, counselling and bereavement support, medical outpatient support, spiritual care.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Income generation is well diversified
  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are extremely 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
31/03/23£6,931£7,043£-112£2,670£8,381£8,23014163593
31/03/22£6,947£6,352£595£2,591£8,783£8,68216.4151525
31/03/21£6,081£6,754£-673£2,469£7,999£7,89514175618
31/03/20*£6,197£7,759£-1,563£2,787£7,999£7,89512.2156657
31/03/19£6,088£7,611£-1,523£2,642£9,773£9,42314.9190648
31/03/18£6,109£6,931£-822£2,422£11,304£10,969191420
31/03/17£6,306£6,599£-292£2,313£12,181£11,80921.51700
31/03/16£6,235£6,221£14£2,100£11,969£11,44022.11570
31/03/15£5,959£6,160£-201£2,051£12,169£11,45722.31210
31/03/14£5,856£5,535£321£1,800£11,614£10,79023.41150
31/03/13£5,788£4,912£877£1,558£11,187£10,623261060
31/03/12£5,299£4,761£538£1,533£9,798£9,32623.51020
31/03/11£5,114£4,347£767£1,355£9,251£8,70024910
31/03/10£4,832£3,906£926£1,205£8,301£7,90324.3860
31/03/09£4,459£4,254£205£1,379£6,608£5,57815.7900
31/03/08£4,630£3,781£849£997£7,359£6,44020.4860
31/03/07£4,437£3,486£951£920£6,966£6,30521.7840
31/03/06*£3,235£3,117£118n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£3,005£2,897£108n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£2,706£2,653£53n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 60.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 38.4%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 9%
Highest pay band: £100,000-£110,000
Liabilities/Assets: 6%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 98%
Reserves/Spending: 14 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 1.9
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 41 years

www.stnicholashospice.org.uk

enquiries@stnh.org.uk

01284766133

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Hospice & bereavement services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Norfolk, Suffolk,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
Suffolk Community Foundation£14,800
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust£5,000
Cheshire Community Foundation£5,000
DCMS£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£2,500 22/01/2024
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice
£1,065 10/11/2021
Unrestricted funding for hospices
Suffolk Community Foundation - Core costs
£2,000 30/06/2021
Towards core costs of St Nicholas Hospice.
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - St Nicholas Hospice (Suffolk) - 04/05/21
£5,000 14/06/2021
Core Funding
Suffolk Community Foundation - Music Therapy
£2,800 01/12/2020
4
Towards delivering music therapy.
Cheshire Community Foundation - Hospice Neighbours Haverhill
£5,000 04/11/2020
St Nicholas Hospice Care provides help and support to people living with dying, caring, death and bereavement in West Suffolk and Thetford. Hospice Neighbours is a project which links patients with end of life conditions with volunteers from the ....more
Suffolk Community Foundation - For core costs to support Covid-19 work.
£5,000 21/08/2020
12
Towards the overall core running costs of St Nicholas Hospice during Covid 19 and beyond.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£5,000 21/08/2020
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 and small organisations who can provide an ....more
Suffolk Community Foundation - Hospice Neighbours
£5,000 29/06/2020
11
Towards the running of the Hospice Neighbour Scheme operated by St Nicholas Hospice during the Covid 19 lock down.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Therapy Chair for Sylvan Ward
£3,383 13/11/2019
12
To provide a Therapy Chair for Sylvan Ward.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Information sessions for people caring for patients at end of life.
£3,653 20/09/2019
12
Supporting information sessions for people caring for patients at end of life.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Grant to St Nicholas Hospice
£20,000 05/09/2019
11
Grant to St Nicholas Hospice
Suffolk Community Foundation - Open House Botesdale (and other work in the area)
£2,607 23/11/2017
11
Towards Open House - a drop in service for people facing long term and life threatening illnesses, loved ones, carers or those struggling with bereavement.
Masonic Trust - Hospice Grant
£2,718 19/10/2016
Core funding for hospices
National Lottery Community Fund - The Garden of Life
£46,682 27/11/2014
12
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Hospice Service
£431,212 19/09/2012
24
This project aims to improve quality of life and wellbeing of terminally ill patients and their families by widening access to 24-hour home-based care. A 'First Contact Team' will seek and manage patient referrals, nursing assistants will be trained ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - HospiceNet
£10,000 26/08/2010
12
This is a project by a charity in Suffolk who will use the funding to transform their website into an online support centre with 24 hour online support. This will help people dealing with bereavement and improve their wellbeing.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 26-76
  • ANITA PEARSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director Of Integration
  • ANNE FISHER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Independent Education Advisor
  • ANTHONY DOMINICK HUGH FAULKNER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Company Director
  • DAVID JAMES EVANS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
  • DONNA FORSTER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Digital Marketing Officer
  • DR PAUL WILLIAM LEOPOLD SIKLOS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
  • JOANNE JEANETTE HOWLETT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
  • KAREN CHANDLER-MALE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Business Executive
  • KATHERINE VAUGHTON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director
  • REV MAX DRINKWATER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Clerk In Holy Orders
  • SAM WILLIAM TURNER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Civil Servant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/11/1983, number: 287773
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/08/1983, number: 01748046
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: 57 days late, AR06: 1 days late, AR05: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from WEST SUFFOLK AND DISTRICT STOMA GROUP on 23/09/2022
  • Asset transfer in from NEWMARKET BREAST CANCER SUPPORT GROUP on 07/11/2022
Main office

St. Nicholas Hospice Care
Hardwick Lane
BURY ST. EDMUNDS
Suffolk
IP33 2QY

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF PERSONS OF EITHER SEX (WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE OR CREED) WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM ANY OTHER PHYSICAL OR MENTAL INFIRMITY DISABILITY OR DISEASE IN SUCH WAYS AS THE ASSOCIATION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

ENGLAND

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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