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Registered charity · Worthing

Southern Hospice Group

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £30m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Where
East Sussex, Hampshire, West Sussex
Website
www.southernhospicegroup.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Southern Hospice Group
Registered
1968

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£30m£34m
  • 2024£33m£26m
  • 2023£21m£23m
Earlier years
  • 2022£19m£20m
  • 2021£20m£18m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 6% · Government grants 16%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM CANCER AND OTHER TERMINAL CONDITIONS IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION BY:(A) CARING FOR AND SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS LIVING WITH A TERMINAL OR LIFE LIMITING CONDITION; (B) SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR FAMILIES FACING OR EXPERIENCING BEREAVEMENT THROUGH THE PROVISION OF WELL BEING SERVICES, COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT; AND (C) ADVANCING RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INTO PALLIATIVE AND END OF LIFE CARE.

Grants received

39 grants · £2,251,154 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

  • Department of Health and Social Care · £1,898,926 (3 grants)
  • SHAREGIFT · £207,500 (19 grants)
  • LUND TRUST · £100,000 (4 grants)
  • Masonic Charitable Foundation · £24,347 (9 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £10,000

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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.

14 trustees on the board

4.4y median 4y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (1)

11
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 14Education/training 13The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 13Disability 1Recreation 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 20Finance 9Professional services 9

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£30.3m 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.

7.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 14.7 in 2021

538 from 346 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.
21%
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
256789
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 05/04/1968AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/11/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/02/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/05/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/11/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23 FEB 2016 as amended on 23 May 2022 as amended on 30 Oct 2024
Companies House
Company number 00930107 · Active
Contact on the register
01903706300 · corporate.governance@southernhospicegroup.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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