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Weldmar Hospicecare

Registered charity 1000414 Registered since 1990

Operates: Dorset

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Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

4.9y median 3y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (4)

10
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 12Education/training 2General Charitable Purposes 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 15Arts and leisure 2Retail and trade 2

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£12.4m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

22.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 8.3 in 2021

260 from 217 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.weldmarhospicecare.org
Emailsarah.harbige@weld-hospice.org.uk
Phone01305 215300
AddressWeldmar Hospicecare, Herringston Road, DORCHESTER, Dorset, DT1 2SL

Finances

£12,383,281 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£10,804,778£8,602,501
2022£13,990,261£9,375,766
2023£10,354,267£10,400,016
2024£10,444,185£11,540,076
2025£12,383,281£11,791,123

What it does

What

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

Who

Elderly/old PeopleOther Defined GroupsThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Services

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE COMPANY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF SUCH OBJECTS) A) BY ESTABLISHING, MAINTAINING AND CONDUCTING A RESPITE CARE CENTRE AND HOSPICE TO BE KNOWN AS THE DORSET RESPITE AND HOSPICE CENTRE B) BY ESTABLISHING, MAINTAINING AND CONDUCTING OTHER HOSPITALS, RESIDENTIAL NURSING HOMES AND CLINICS IN ENGLAND OR WALES FOR THE RECEPTION AND CARE OF PERSONS OF EITHER SEX WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM ANY ILLNESS, DISABILITY, DISEASE OR OTHER INFIRMITY WHETHER PHYSICAL OR MENTAL AND BY PROVIDING MEDICAL OR OTHER TREATMENT AND ATTENTION FOR ANY SUCH PERSONS AS AFORESAID C) BY PROMOTING OR ASSISTING IN THE TEACHING OR TRAINING OF DOCTORS, NURSES, PHYSIOTHERAPISTS AND OTHER PERSONS ENGAGED IN ANY BRANCH OF MEDICINE, SURGERY, NURSING OR ALLIED SERVICES D) BY CONDUCTING OR PROMOTING RESEARCH INTO THE CARE AND TREATMENT OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM ANY ILLNESS, DISABILITY, DISEASE OR INFIRMITY AND PARTICULARLY INTO THE CARE AND TREATMENT OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM CANCER OR TERMINAL ILLNESSES AND TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS THEREOF TO THE PUBLIC E) BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF SPIRITUAL HELP AND GUIDANCE FOR ANY PERSONS RESIDENT (EITHER AS PATIENTS OR OTHERWISE) OR WORKING IN ANY SUCH CENTRE HOSPICE HOSPITAL OR HOME AS A AFORESAID

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF 10TH JULY 1990 AS AMENDED SEPTEMBER 1995, 23 SEPTEMBER 2002 AND 18 DECEMBER 2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/11/2013 as amended on 05 Mar 2021 as amended on 05 Mar 2021 as amended on 18 Nov 2021 as amended on 16 Nov 2023

Trustees (12)

12trustees
70median age
5aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Weldmar Hospicecare Limited · 02520727 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 10/07/1990

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (4)

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