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Registered charity · Stoke-on-Trent

Douglas Macmillan Hospice

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £22m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Staffordshire, Stoke-on-trent City
Website
www.dmhospice.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Douglas Macmillan Hospice
Registered
1998

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£22m£21m
  • 2024£19m£19m
  • 2023£18m£18m
Earlier years
  • 2022£20m£15m
  • 2021£19m£12m
Charitable objects

1) THE RECEPTION AND CARE OF PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND PARTICULARLY THE COUNTIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE CHESHIRE DERBYSHIRE AND SHROPSHIRE WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM CANCER OR OTHER TERMINAL ILLNESSES AND UNDERTAKING SUCH OTHER ACTIVITIES AS MAY BE APPROPRIATE AND ANCILLARY TO THE CARE OF PERSONS RESIDENT AND SUFFERING AS AFORESAID (SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED IN THIS MEMORANDUM AND THE ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF THE CHARITY) IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS AS THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHARITY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE AND UNFETTERED DISCRETION THINK FIT AND WITHIN THE LIMITS OF AVAILABLE FINANCIAL RESOURCES; THE INTENTION BEING THAT THE MANAGEMENT OF THE CHARITY AND THE ADMISSION OF PERSONS AND THE NUMBERS AND QUALIFICATION OF SUCH PERSONS FOR ADMISSION AND THE DURATION AND THE CONDITIONS OF THEIR RESIDENCE THERE AND ALL OTHER MATTERS IN CONNECTION WITH THE SUCCESSFUL CARRYING ON OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE WITHIN THE EXCLUSIVE COGNISANCE OF THE DIRECTORS WHO MAY (SUBJECT AS PROVIDED IN THIS MEMORANDUM AND THE ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF THE CHARITY) MAKE RESCIND OR VARY AT ANY TIME FROM TIME TO TIME THE REGULATIONS AND CONDITIONS WHICH ARE TO GOVERN THIS WITHOUT BEING RESPONSIBLE TO ANY PERSON IN THAT CONNECTION; 2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF HEALTH CARE WORKERS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL ASPECTS OF PALLIATIVE CARE

Board analysis for researchers

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.

8 trustees on the board

5.4y median 4y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

7
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 8Education/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 8Retail and trade 3Arts and leisure 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£21.7m 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.

16.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 23.6 in 2021

499 from 339 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1071613
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 14/08/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/10/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31/10/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/06/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 30/10/2009NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 22/07/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/05/2015
Companies House
Company number 03615904 · Active
Contact on the register
01782344300 · post@dmhospice.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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