The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice

Registered charity 1076958 Registered since 1999

Operates: Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield City, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, North Lincolnshire

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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.

7 trustees on the board

1.6y median 1y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
3.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

6
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 7Education/training 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7

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 6Finance 1Retail and trade 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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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£6.0m 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.

17.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 21.7 in 2021

118 from 116 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.bluebellwood.org
Emailinfo@bluebellwood.org
Phone01909517360
AddressBLUEBELL WOOD CHILDRENS HOSPICE, CRAMFIT ROAD, NORTH ANSTON, SHEFFIELD, S25 4AJ

Finances

£5,973,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£5,742,000£4,529,000
2022£4,117,000£4,351,000
2023£4,393,000£4,355,000
2024£4,228,000£4,893,000
2025£5,973,000£5,680,000

What it does

What

Education/trainingThe Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of LivesDisability

Who

Children/young PeoplePeople With Disabilities

How

Provides Human ResourcesProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides Services

Charitable objects

The Charity’s objects are the relief of sickness and suffering of children and young people in the Midlands, North of England and adjacent areas in such ways as the Trustees shall from time to time think fit and in particular but not so as to limit the generality of the foregoing:1. To provide medical, material, emotional, educational and spiritual care for and accommodation for children and young people suffering from life limiting and life threatening illnesses and conditions, including in circumstances of sudden or unexpected death.2. To support the needs of the families of such children and young people as are occasioned by the sickness, disability or death of such children and young people, in particular needs of counselling and accommodation. 3. To promote, encourage, provide or assist in the teaching or training of doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, administrators, social workers and other persons engaged in any branch of medicine, surgery, nursing or allied services. 4. To promote, carry out or take part in research into palliative care or other care for any terminal or chronic sickness or disability, or sudden or unexpected death which may affect children and young people and to publish the useful results of such research.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 19/07/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/03/2006AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 23/09/2013 as amended on 06 Sept 2025 as amended on 06 Sept 2025

Trustees (7)

7trustees
59median age
0aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice · 03809663 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 19/07/1999

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

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