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Registered charity · Gloucestershire

Longfield Hospice Care

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £5.4m (2025)

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
Gloucestershire
Website
www.longfield.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Longfield Hospice Care
Registered
1988

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.4m£6.0m
  • 2024£5.0m£5.3m
  • 2023£5.7m£4.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.8m£4.0m
  • 2021£4.2m£3.4m
Charitable objects

THE PROMOTION OF THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM OR WHO HAVE SUFFERED FROM CANCER OR ANY PROGRESSIVE LIFE THREATENING ILLNESS AND TO COUNSEL AND PRESERVE THE HEALTH OF THE FAMILIES CARERS AND FRIENDS OF SUCH PERSONS ( WHETHER OR NOT SUCH PERSONS BE STILL LIVING).

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

3.3y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (2)

10
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 11The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10Economic/community Development/employment 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1Religious 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.

Finance 12Health and social care 12Professional services 4

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£5.4m 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.

5.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 4.8 in 2021

164 from 137 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.
10%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.
Qualified
Auditor's opinioniAuditor's opinionThe accounts_qualified flag on the latest filed annual return is True - the auditor qualified their opinion. A register flag, shown as filed.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
298627
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 25 JANUARY 1988, AS AMENDED 25 SEPTEMBER 1996AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 22/01/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 08 APR 2015 as amended on 15 Jun 2021
Companies House
Company number 02213662 · Active
Contact on the register
01453886868 · info@longfield.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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