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Registered charity · Oxford

Helen & Douglas House

The objects of the Charity are the relief of sickness and stress and in particular 1 To provide palliative and supportive care to children and young people with life-shortening conditions in order to relieve sickness and stress and in particular to...

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £11m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.helenanddouglas.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Helen & Douglas House
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£11m£12m
  • 2024£9.8m£12m
  • 2023£9.8m£10m
Earlier years
  • 2022£10.0m£9.0m
  • 2021£9.4m£8.3m
Charitable objects

The objects of the Charity are the relief of sickness and stress and in particular 1 To provide palliative and supportive care to children and young people with life-shortening conditions in order to relieve sickness and stress and in particular to enable them to live as well and as fully as possible to the end of their lives, supporting their needs and wishes at the time of their death. 2 To promote the well-being of families and carers of children and young people with life-shortening conditions by providing counselling, practical support and bereavement 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.

12 trustees on the board

4.5y median 6y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (4)

9
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 12Disability 11Education/training 3Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 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 8Education 5Business services 3

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£10.7m 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.

6.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 12.0 in 2021

200 from 164 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
1085951
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 6 DECEMBER 2000 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 2 MARCH 2001, 10 NOVEMBER 2006 AND 10 APRIL 2007.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13 DEC 2016 as amended on 01 Aug 2019
Companies House
Company number 04120488 · Active
Contact on the register
01865794749 · finance@helenanddouglas.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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