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Wakefield Hospice

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £7.2m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
City Of Wakefield
Website
www.wakefieldhospice.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Wakefield Hospice
Registered
1988

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.2m£6.0m
  • 2024£5.2m£5.5m
  • 2023£4.5m£5.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.3m£4.4m
  • 2021£5.4m£4.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 21%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE WELFARE OF THE TERMINALLY ILL IN THE AREA OF WAKEFIELD AND DISTRICT IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT

Grants received

21 grants · £297,878 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.

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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.

13 trustees on the board

3.5y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (3)

12
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 13General Charitable Purposes 2Education/training 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Health and social care 18Property 6Construction 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£7.2m 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.

6.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 10.0 in 2021

146 from 124 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
518392
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION 17 JULY 1986AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11 JUN 1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28 JAN 2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26 NOV 2018 as amended on 12 Dec 2022 as amended on 14 Dec 2023
Companies House
Company number 02038416 · Active
Contact on the register
01924331400 · info@wakefieldhospice.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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