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Registered charity · Taunton

ST Margaret's Somerset Hospice

  • 17 trustees
  • Income £15m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Somerset, North Somerset
Website
www.st-margarets-hospice.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
ST. Margaret's Somerset Hospice
Registered
1980

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£15m£16m
  • 2024£14m£15m
  • 2023£14m£14m
Earlier years
  • 2022£15m£13m
  • 2021£13m£11m
Charitable objects

THE PROMOTION RELIEF OF SICKNESS BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE ASSOCIATION SHALL THINK FIT. (FOR DETAILS SEE ARTICLE 7 OF THE ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION).

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.

17 trustees on the board

4.4y median 4y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (16)

Portfolio (1)

16
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 17Religious Activities 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 17Retail and trade 2Arts 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£15.4m 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.

7.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 11.7 in 2021

267 from 329 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
279473
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 07/01/1980 AND AMENDED ON 23/01/1980, 12/11/1996, 08/092000, 13/05/2003, AND 11/05/2004 NOW ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION ADOPTED AND AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION ON 30/11/2009 as amended on 30 Dec 2017 as amended on 20 Dec 2021 as amended on 05 Mar 2025 as amended on 03 Dec 2025
Companies House
Company number 01471345 · Active
Contact on the register
01823365603 · info@st-margarets-hospice.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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