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Registered charity · Torquay

Rowcroft House Foundation Limited

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £12m (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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Devon, Torbay
Website
www.rowcrofthospice.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Rowcroft House Foundation Limited
Registered
1981

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£12m£11m
  • 2024£9.7m£11m
  • 2023£10m£10m
Earlier years
  • 2022£11m£9.3m
  • 2021£11m£9.4m
Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AMONGST ADULTS AND PERSONS TRANSITIONING TO ADULTHOOD, ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DECIDE, SUFFERING FROM LIFE LIMITING ILLNESSES AND SUPPORT FOR THEIR FAMILIES THROUGH THE PROVISION OF A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY, SPECIALIST PALLIATIVE CARE TEAM IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT COVERING, IN PARTICULAR, THE AREAS OF TORBAY AND SOUTH DEVON.

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.

5.8y median 6y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 12General Charitable Purposes 2

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 15Professional services 8Tech and media 4

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£12.0m 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.

8.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 19.3 in 2021

186 from 167 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
282723
Status
Registered
Governing document
INCORPORATED 14/05/1981NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 21/10/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/01/2011AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 24/01/2011 as amended on 02 Jul 2018 as amended on 25 May 2021 as amended on 20 Sep 2021 as amended on 23 Sept 2024 as amended on 30 Jun 2025
Companies House
Company number 01561601 · Active
Contact on the register
01803 210823 · info@rowcrofthospice.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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