Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Income diversified: +3
  • Large legacies income: +1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

HOSPISCARE 

Hospiscare provides a holistic palliative care service to patients with life-limiting illnesses. This includes symptom control, emotional, spiritual and social care. Hospiscare delivers care in the community, e.g. in patients' homes, care homes or community hospitals; in the hospice which has 12 in-patient beds and a daycare facility for up to 60 patients a week; and in the local acute hospital.
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
  • 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:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 37 years

www.hospiscare.co.uk

info@hospiscare.co.uk

01392688000

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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£9,542£10,774£-1,232£3,799£14,220£12,05413.4271500
31/03/22£12,512£9,733£2,779£3,311£15,719£13,03216.1261576
31/03/21£9,282£9,447£-165£2,989£12,690£9,99812.7260890
31/03/20£12,661£10,604£2,056£3,897£11,923£9,11710.3286978
31/03/19£10,917£9,907£1,010£3,925£10,507£10,05812.2277985
31/03/18*£8,888£9,455£-568£3,729£9,378£9,01911.42680
31/03/17£8,861£8,878£-17£3,375£9,990£9,58112.92690
31/03/16£8,672£8,033£640£3,178£9,681£9,28013.92600
31/03/15£8,465£7,566£898£2,987£9,157£8,76813.91730
31/03/14£7,498£7,090£407£2,728£8,110£7,103121600
31/03/13£6,621£6,940£-319£2,504£7,662£7,28212.61640
31/03/12£6,540£6,287£253£1,991£7,834£6,86313.11570
31/03/11£6,576£5,830£745£1,768£7,585£6,57013.51020
31/03/10£5,424£5,684£-259£1,581£6,755£6,28413.3980
31/03/09£5,405£5,582£-177£1,515£6,726£6,04513980
31/03/08£6,437£4,857£1,579£1,397£7,158£6,07815900
31/03/07£3,843£3,574£269£1,274£5,697£4,80916.11490
31/03/06£4,462£3,404£1,058£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£2,667£2,973£-306£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£2,856£2,662£193£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 59.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 35.5%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 7%
Liabilities/Income: 12%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 85%
Reserves/Spending: 13.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 3.2
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Devon,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 271 employees
  • 500 volunteers

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
Wolfson Foundation£50,000
DCMS£44,106
Masonic Trust£25,790
Devon Community Foundation£19,266
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Hospiscare
£50,000 08/06/2023
Redevelopment of entrance to inpatient unit
Devon Community Foundation - Mobile Pain Relief
£5,000 09/02/2022
To help patients with a terminal illness manage their pain relief facilitating their mobility and independence.
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice
£1,000 10/11/2021
Unrestricted funding for hospices
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice
£1,000 10/11/2021
Unrestricted funding for hospices
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice
£1,000 10/11/2021
Unrestricted funding for hospices
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice
£1,565 10/11/2021
Unrestricted funding for hospices
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Hospiscare - 23/04/21
£5,000 14/06/2021
Core Funding
Devon Community Foundation - COVID19 Can you help us continue to provide community crisis care?
£5,000 17/02/2021
1
Grant to HOSPISCARE
Cheshire Community Foundation - Help us develop our regional bereavement support centre
£5,000 04/11/2020
Hospiscare is a local hospice charity operating across Exeter, Mid and East Devon. We are seeking funding to develop our bereavement support centre, meeting the need brought by Covid-19. A grant from ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Exmouth & Lympstone Hospiscare
£5,037 24/10/2020
To purchase new furniture and soft furnishing to make our room appealing, calming and comfortable for patients, carers and families.
Devon Community Foundation - COVID19 Nursing in the community
£4,910 08/10/2020
1
Grant to HOSPISCARE
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£4,910 08/10/2020
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
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£39,196 15/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Devon Community Foundation - COVID19 Help us extend our bereavement support service
£4,356 14/05/2020
1
Grant to HOSPISCARE
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice UK Partnership
£21,225 06/03/2020
Help us provide an end of life care plan for our local homeless community
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£20,000 24/07/2017
Embedding Specialist Dementia Care
Dunhill Medical Trust - Volunteer Care Navigator Initiative
£30,000 12/06/2017
36
This project pairs individual care navigators and hospice patients with the aim of creating long-term trusting relationships. Volunteers offer the patients social, emotional and practical support and ....more
Masonic Trust - Hospice Grant
£2,718 19/10/2016
Core funding for hospices
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Hospiscare
£15,000 09/06/2016
12
Towards extending the Care Navigator programme into Exeter and Mid Devon.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 38-74
  • ANTHONY MARTIN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Deputy Director Nhs England South West
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/10/1987, number: 297798
  • Registered at Companies House on 15/09/1987, number: 02164215
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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; AR18: 6 days late, AR05: 332 days late, AR04: 26 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE FRIENDS OF OKEHAMPTON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL on 27/09/2023
  • Asset transfer in from ADRIAN JOHN HOWARD-BLOOD CHARITABLE TRUST on 12/03/2024
  • Asset transfer in from ADRIAN JOHN HOWARD-BLOOD CHARITABLE TRUST on 12/03/2024
Main office

Hospiscare
Searle House
Dryden Road
EXETER
EX2 5JJ

Objectives

THE CHARITY‘S OBJECTS ARE TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF AND CARE OF THOSE WHO HAVE A LIFE SHORTENING ILLNESS IN PARTICULAR BY:(A) THE PROVISION AS THE CHARITY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE OF NURSING FOR THE RELIEF AND CARE AT HOME AND ELSEWHERE OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM A LIFE SHORTENING ILLNESS (HEREINAFTER CALLED ?PATIENTS?)(B) THE PROVISION OF A COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT AND COUNSELLING SERVICE FOR THE PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND ALL OTHERS ENGAGED IN OR CONCERNED WITH THE CARE OF THE PATIENTS.(C) THE PROVISION OF PREMISES (INCLUDING A RESIDENTIAL HOSPICE OR HOSPICES) FACILITIES EQUIPMENT MATERIALS DRUGS MEDICINES AND SERVICES FOR THE PATIENTS.(D) THE PROVISION OF TRAINING AND EDUCATION FOR ALL PERSONS IN ALL ASPECTS OF THE RELIEF AND CARE OF THOSE WITH A LIFE SHORTENING ILLNESS AND OF THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT AND COUNSELLING AS AFORESAID.(E) THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND ADVICE CONCERNING THE CHARITY AND ALL ASPECTS OF ITS WORK AS AFORESAID AND THE PROMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF ALL ASPECTS OF THE WORK OF RELIEF AND CARE OF THOSE WITH A LIFE SHORTENING ILLNESS.(F) THE PROVISION OF PREMISES, FACILITIES, EQUIPMENT, DRUGS AND SERVICES FOR PATIENTS USING THE CHARITY‘S DAY SERVICES.(G) THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT SERVICES AS AFORESAID IN THE COMMUNITY TO PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES IN THEIR OWN HOMES BY COMMUNITY NURSING TEAMS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

DEVON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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