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Registered charity · Kent

Demelza Hospice Care for Children

  • 16 trustees
  • Income £17m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Where
Throughout London, East Sussex, Kent
Website
www.demelza.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Demelza Hospice Care for Children
Registered
1994

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£17m£19m
  • 2024£17m£18m
  • 2023£14m£16m
Earlier years
  • 2022£12m£13m
  • 2021£13m£11m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 4% · Government grants 10%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF ILLNESS AND SUFFERING IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Grants received

59 grants · £5,445,026 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

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.

16 trustees on the board

2.5y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (15)

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.

Disability 16The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 16Education/training 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 16Business services 6Property 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£17.3m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

7.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 17.6 in 2021

378 from 291 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.
14%
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
1039651
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 14/07/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/02/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/03/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/06/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/03/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/03/2003NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 03/05/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 07/06/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 25/03/2014 as amended on 06 Oct 2022 as amended on 30 Aug 2023 as amended on 03 Oct 2024
Companies House
Company number 02948500 · Active
Contact on the register
01795 845200 · info@demelza.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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