Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 8

Support Score: 2

Liabilities <10%: +3
Excess liquidity: -1
Income diversified: +3
Multiple Deficits: -2
Fundraising costs high: -2

12+ Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: 11

QUEENSCOURT HOSPICE

Provide specialist palliative care free of charge to adults with a serious and life limiting illness. To promote the practice of palliative care by example and by teaching and training.

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:

There are 13 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appeared to be considerably in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end especially considering the historic stability of income
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised

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		£5,779	£6,532	£-753	£907	£12,343	£12,017	22.1	164	349
31/03/22		£5,546	£5,574	£-28	£813	£13,541	£13,335	28.7	161	338
31/03/21		£5,943	£5,599	£344	£798	£12,869	£12,809	27.5	161	530
31/03/20		£4,978	£6,046	£-1,068	£857	£11,359	£11,274	22.4	180	575
31/03/19		£4,890	£5,784	£-894	£954	£12,822	£12,761	26.5	175	595
31/03/18		£4,892	£5,421	£-529	£886	£13,199	£13,130	29.1	175	0
31/03/17		£3,882	£4,858	£-975	£1,022	£13,664	£13,580	33.5	157	0
31/03/16	*	£4,437	£4,674	£-236	£963	£13,340	£13,236	34	156	0
31/03/15		£5,152	£4,487	£665	£968	£13,955	£13,901	37.2	86	0
31/03/14		£3,817	£4,105	£-288	£829	£12,605	£12,509	36.6	76	0
31/03/13		£3,275	£3,672	£-397	£764	£12,574	£12,538	41	70	0
31/03/12		£4,168	£3,416	£752	£754	£11,926	£11,827	41.5	77	0
31/03/11		£3,940	£3,266	£674	£665	£11,026	£10,537	38.7	62	0
31/03/10		£3,556	£3,141	£414	£655	£9,980	£9,905	37.8	66	0
31/03/09		£3,451	£2,753	£698	£612	£8,405	£8,361	36.4	66	0
31/03/08		£2,749	£2,407	£342	£556	£8,838	£8,794	43.8	51	0
31/03/07		£2,252	£2,292	£-40	£514	£8,757	£8,712	45.6	51	0
31/03/06		£1,891	£1,793	£98	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£2,235	£1,563	£672	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£2,109	£1,437	£673	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 20.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 13.9%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 14%
Highest pay band: £130,000-£140,000
Liabilities/Assets: 9%
Liabilities/Income: 20%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 97%
Reserves/Spending: 22.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.3

Asset Split ?

Established: 37 years

www.queenscourt.org.uk

hospice@queenscourt.org.uk

01704517926

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Hospice services

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Lancashire, Sefton,

Who it helps

People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

164 employees
349 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - A Better Quality Of Life In Hospice
£9,980	18/11/2022	The funding will provide TV media equipment within a hospice to enable people undergoing treatments with limited mobility and those in the final days of their life with music TV games and apps to ....more The funding will provide TV media equipment within a hospice to enable people undergoing treatments with limited mobility and those in the final days of their life with music TV games and apps to support their family time wellbeing and quality of life.
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice
£1,470	10/11/2021	Unrestricted funding for hospices

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (13)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 41-77

ANDREW APPLETON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of Digital, Estates And Facilities

DAVID KEMP Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Private Landlord

GEMMA CAUSER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Deputy Director Of Nursing

JACQUI CAMPBELL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Housing Director

LOUISE HOOTON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Group Head Of Housing

TERRY MCGRAW Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Solicitor

ANTHONY DAMIAN CREWE (Chair) Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Hmrc Enquiry Co-Ordinator

CAROL BERNARD Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Retired Nurse

CHRISTOPHER PAUL CUTNER Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Retired

DR GERALDINE ROSE BOOCOCK Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Retired Doctor, Other trusteeship: LIVERPOOL WELSH CHORAL UNION,

KIM BARTRUM WALLIS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Chartered Surveyor, Other trusteeship: BIRKDALE COMMUNITY HUB AND LIBRARY,

MARGARET HELEN TARPEY Appointed: 2004, Occupation: Managing Director

REV PETER MARTIN ABRAMS Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Hospital Chaplaincy Lead, Other trusteeship: CRADLE CHARITY,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/06/1987, number: 518801
Registered at Companies House on 23/02/1987, number: 02102320

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

20 returns made; AR16: 0 days late,

Main office

QUEENSCOURT HOSPICE
TOWN LANE
SOUTHPORT
PR8 6RE

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE CARE OF, PROVIDE CARE AND SERVICES TO, GIBE SYMPTOM CONTROL TO AND FOR, AND ORGANISE AND PROVIDE CONTINUING AND TERMINAL CARE SERVICES TO ALL PERSONS WITH CANCER OR ANY OTHER DISEASE, WHERE IT IS FELT THAT A CURE IS NO LONGER POSSIBLE AND FOR WHOM ONLY PALLIATIVE TREATMENT IS AVAILABLE AND PROVIDE SUCH SERVICES TO ALL PERSONS SUFFERING FROM INTRACTABLE PAIN, SO FAR AS THIS CAN BE DONE WITHOUT DETRIMENT TO THOSE SUFFERING FROM TERMINAL ILLNESS AND TO ESTABLISH AND OPERATE A CENTRE FOR SUCH PERSONS. (FOR FURTHER OBJECTS SEE MEMORANDUM)

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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