Registered charity · Tunbridge Wells
Hospice in the Weald
- 11 trustees
- Income £16m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Gary WithersChair · since 2020
- Dr Andrew LongTrustee · since 2023
- Dr Susan Jane GrieveTrustee · since 2020
- Dr TIM PalmerTrustee · since 2023
- Helen PullenTrustee · since 2024
- Iain Bernard NewmanTrustee · since 2025
- Jacqueline Nicola Churchward-CardiffTrustee · since 2025
- Jill Margaret ThompsonTrustee · since 2026
- Linda KingTrustee · since 2022
- Paul StevensonTrustee · since 2023
- Sara Jane NelsonTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
- Where
- East Sussex, Kent
- Website
- www.hospiceintheweald.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Hospice in the Weald
- Registered
- 1980
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£16m£15m
- 2024£14m£13m
- 2023£13m£11m
Earlier years
- 2022£11m£11m
- 2021£11m£10m
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS IN SUCH CHARITABLE WAYS AS THE HOSPICE SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, AND IN PARTICULAR:- (A) TO PROMOTE THE CARE WITHOUT LIMITATIONS OF SEX, RACE OR AGE, OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM TERMINAL ILLNESS OR INTRACTABLE PAIN WHETHER IN HOSPITAL, NURSING HOMES, CLINICS OR THEIR OWN HOMES AND TO PROVIDE MEDICAL NURSING AND OTHER TREATMENT AND ATTENTION (B) TO CONDUCT, PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE RESEARCH INTO THE CARE AND TREATMENT OF SUFFERERS FROM TERMINAL ILLNESS OR INTRACTABLE PAIN TO MAKE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 1 OF THE MEMORANDUM 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.
11 trustees on the board
- Gary Withers Chair since 2020
- Dr Andrew Long since 2023
- Dr Susan Jane Grieve since 2020
- Dr TIM Palmer since 2023
- Helen Pullen since 2024
- Iain Bernard Newman since 2025
- Jacqueline Nicola Churchward-Cardiff since 2025
- Jill Margaret Thompson since 2026
- Linda King since 2022
- Paul Stevenson since 2023
- Sara Jane Nelson since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Gary Withers Chair since 2020
- Dr Susan Jane Grieve since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (11)
- Gary Withers Chair since 2020
- Dr Andrew Long since 2023
- Dr Susan Jane Grieve since 2020
- Dr TIM Palmer since 2023
- Helen Pullen since 2024
- Iain Bernard Newman since 2025
- Jacqueline Nicola Churchward-Cardiff since 2025
- Jill Margaret Thompson since 2026
- Linda King since 2022
- Paul Stevenson since 2023
- Sara Jane Nelson since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
9.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 20.3 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 280276
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 4TH JUNE 1980 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 07/09/09.
- Companies House
- Company number 01499846 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01892820500 · info@hospiceintheweald.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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