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Registered charity · Ipswich

St Elizabeth Hospice

2.1 The Charity’s objects are restricted specifically, only for the public benefit to:2.1.1 promote the relief of persons (without prejudice to age, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or gender reassignment) who are suffering...

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £19m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

Also 2 organisations acting as trustee: Jola Adebd Ademokun, Jonathan de Bernhardt Wood.

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
Norfolk, Suffolk
Website
www.stelizabethhospice.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
ST Elizabeth Hospice
Registered
1984

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£19m£18m
  • 2024£19m£17m
  • 2023£16m£16m
Earlier years
  • 2022£23m£14m
  • 2021£15m£13m
Charitable objects

2.1 The Charity’s objects are restricted specifically, only for the public benefit to:2.1.1 promote the relief of persons (without prejudice to age, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or gender reassignment) who are suffering from:2.1.1.1 any chronic, life limiting or terminal illness; or 2.1.1.2 any disability or disease attributable to old age; or2.1.1.3 physical or mental illness, disability or disease of any other description(the Patients)in such ways as the Charity shall from time to time think fit.2.1.2 relieve the emotional and mental and spiritual needs of 2.1.2.1 Patients; 2.1.2.2 the families, close friends, carers, medical and other staff, providing or assisting in the care of the Patients; and2.1.2.3 other individuals who have suffered a bereavement and are in particular need of relief as the Charity shall from time to time think fit; by the provision of care, advice, support and counselling, including (but not limited to) bereavement counselling and associated services to any and/or all such persons.

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.

10 trustees on the board

3.6y median 3.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 10Education/training 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10

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 14Finance 3Professional services 2

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£19.3m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

3.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 6.9 in 2021

500 from 409 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.
33%
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
289154
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 24TH FEBRUARY 1984 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 13TH MARCH 1989 AND 19 SEPTEMBER 2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22 SEP 2016 as amended on 27 Jan 2022 as amended on 27 Jan 2022 as amended on 25 May 2023
Companies House
Company number 01794927 · Active
Contact on the register
01473707023 · enquiries@stelizabethhospice.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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