The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Dove Cottage DAY Hospice

Registered charity 1057941 Registered since 1996

Operates: Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland

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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.

6 trustees on the board

0.7y median 0.5y
average tenure
2y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
5.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

6
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 6General Charitable Purposes 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 9Business services 2Education 1

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£548k 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.

8.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 11.0 in 2021

36 from 42 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.

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.dovecottage.org
Emaildan@dovecottage.org
Phone01949860303
AddressDove Cottage Day Hospice, Canal Lane, Stathern, MELTON MOWBRAY, Leicestershire, LE14 4EX

Finances

£548,090 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£618,663£448,920
2022£618,503£519,490
2023£622,798£610,160
2024£807,048£632,608
2025£548,090£705,410

What it does

What

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

Who

Elderly/old PeoplePeople With Disabilities

How

Provides Services

Charitable objects

1) To promote the relief of sickness by such charitable means as the trustees may from time to time determine and in particular by the provision of care and support for persons with serious and progressive illnesses and by the provision of respite care for the carers or families of such persons. 2) To assist in the provision of any other charitable facilities for such persons and in particular to make grants to other charities having aims identical or similar to those of this charity

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 21 AUGUST 1996 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 15TH JANUARY 2003 as amended on 01 Apr 2023 as amended on 01 Mar 2024

Trustees (6)

6trustees
65median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Dove Cottage DAY Hospice · 03240240 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 21/08/1996

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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