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Garden House Hospice Care

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £8.4m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Hertfordshire, Central Bedfordshire
Website
www.ghhospicecare.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Garden House Hospice Care
Registered
1986

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£8.4m£11m
  • 2024£7.8m£8.5m
  • 2023£6.5m£7.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.0m£6.4m
  • 2021£7.7m£5.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 34% · Government grants 34%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

4. THE OBJECTS ARE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF AGE, ILL-HEALTH OR DISABILITY IN SUCH WAYS AS THE COMPANY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) BY:4.1 ESTABLISHING, MAINTAINING AND OPERATING HOSPICES AND RESIDENTIAL NURSING HOMES FOR THE RECEPTION AND CARE AND TREATMENT OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM ANY ILLNESS (IN PARTICULAR, ANY LIFE-LIMITING ILLNESS), DISABILITY OR INFIRMITY;4.2 ESTABLISHING, MAINTAINING AND OPERATING CENTRES AND/OR OTHER PREMISES FOR THE PROVISION ON A NON-RESIDENTIAL BASIS OF MEDICAL CARE OR OTHER TREATMENT, CARE AND ADVICE FOR ANY SUCH PERSONS;4.3 PROVIDING MEDICAL CARE OR OTHER TREATMENTS, CARE, SUPPORT AND ADVICE (INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF PASTORAL SUPPORT, ASSISTANCE TO COMBAT LONELINESS AND SOCIAL ISOLATION, AND DOMICILIARY CARE SERVICES) FOR ANY SUCH PERSONS IN THEIR OWN HOME SETTINGS AND/OR BY TELEPHONE, VIDEO OR OTHER ELECTRONIC MEANS;4.4 PROVIDING RELATED SUPPORT AND/OR ADVICE TO THE RELATIVES AND CLOSE FRIENDS OF SUCH PERSONS;4.5 CONDUCTING OR PROMOTING RESEARCH INTO THE CARE AND TREATMENT OF ANY SUCH PERSONS AND OF THEIR RELATIVES AND CLOSE FRIENDS AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; AND4.6 PROMOTING OR ASSISTING IN THE TEACHING OR TRAINING OF DOCTORS, NURSES, PHYSIOTHERAPISTS AND OTHER HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS AND IN THE TEACHING OR TRAINING OF STUDENTS IN ANY FIELD OF HEALTHCARE.

Grants received

17 grants · £698,389 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

Most recent

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.

8 trustees on the board

3.1y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
4.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

8
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 8

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 8Finance 1Retail and trade 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£8.4m 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.

1.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 10.6 in 2021

225 from 207 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.
68%
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
295257
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 25TH JULY 1986 AS AMENDED 17TH MARCH 1987 as amended on 17 Jun 2020 as amended on 29 Jul 2020 as amended on 30 Nov 2022
Companies House
Company number 02040989 · Active
Contact on the register
0146267940 · enquiries@ghhospicecare.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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