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Registered charity · London

Hospice UK

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £34m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Guernsey and more
Website
www.hospiceuk.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Hospice UK
Registered
1992

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£34m£33m
  • 2024£6.7m£8.2m
  • 2023£8.6m£7.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£109m£105m
  • 2021£264m£264m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants 73%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO FACILITATE AND PROMOTE THE RELIEF, CARE AND TREATMENT OF THE SICK, ESPECIALLY OF THE DYING, AND THE SUPPORT AND CARE OF THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS AND OF THE BEREAVED; (B) TO FACILITATE AND PROMOTE THE CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES OF THOSE PERSONS (WHETHER INDIVIDUALS OR ORGANISATIONS0 WHICH PROVIDE AND/OR SUPPORT HOSPICE CARE; (C) TO PROVIDE OR FACILITATE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR PROFESSIONALS AND VOLUNTEERS ENGAGED IN PALLIATIVE CARE AND INCREASE AWARENESS AMONG THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE VALUES, PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE.

Grants received

77 grants · £563,102,585 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department of Health and Social Care · £556,040,556 (16 grants)
  • Masonic Charitable Foundation · £2,409,653 (9 grants)
  • Postcode Care Trust · £1,620,000 (4 grants)
  • Monument Trust · £1,240,000 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £874,964 (8 grants)

Most recent

Board analysis

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.

3.4y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (1)

14
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 14General Charitable Purposes 14The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Other services 20Health and social care 18Education 5

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£34.1m 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.

1.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 0.2 in 2021

79 from 82 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.
74%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1014851
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29/09/1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/03/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/05/2007NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 25/10/2009AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 13/11/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 30/01/2014 as amended on 19 May 2021 as amended on 04 Jul 2023
Companies House
Company number 02751549 · Active
Contact on the register
02075208200 · info@hospiceuk.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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