Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Income diversified: +3
  • Large legacies income: +1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 23 ?

EAST CHESHIRE HOSPICE

To provide specialist palliative care to patients and their families and carers within our catchment area. This is provided via an In-patient and Day Care facility, and also through education and research to improve services.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Income generation is well diversified
  • This charity has received considerable income from legacies in recent years
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end especially considering the historic stability of income

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£8,250£6,455£1,795£1,274£15,707£9,75518.1112400
31/03/22£7,208£5,359£1,850£995£14,423£9,44321.1102400
31/03/21£6,206£5,397£809£916£12,355£7,35916.4101640
31/03/20£6,534£4,963£1,571£1,035£10,774£5,48913.397640
31/03/19£4,704£4,889£-185£1,095£9,463£5,66213.994600
31/03/18£5,119£4,338£781£957£9,477£5,56415.4880
31/03/17£4,345£3,933£412£937£8,707£4,84714.8830
31/03/16£4,112£3,959£153£829£7,888£3,86111.7830
31/03/15£3,773£4,018£-245£720£7,852£3,85011.5850
31/03/14£3,566£3,741£-175£698£7,949£3,84212.3810
31/03/13£3,405£3,507£-102£590£7,983£3,75112.8710
31/03/12£3,778£3,248£530£426£7,879£3,46212.8610
31/03/11£4,235£3,047£1,188£563£7,461£3,05712650
31/03/10£3,914£2,945£969£499£6,183£2,61410.7650
31/03/09£2,744£2,617£127£502£5,039£1,6477.6650
31/03/08£4,662£2,423£2,239£390£5,079£2,93614.5620
31/03/07£2,520£2,474£46£496£2,939£1,5397.5610
31/03/06*£2,642£2,388£254n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£2,309£2,252£57n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£2,276£2,040£236n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 18.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 19.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 4%
Liabilities/Income: 8%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 62%
Reserves/Spending: 18.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 11 months
Quick Ratio: 8.5
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 41 years

www.eastcheshirehospice.org.uk

admin@echospice.org.uk

01625610364

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Hospice & bereavement services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cheshire East, Derbyshire,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Garfield Weston Foundation£80,000
Masonic Trust£35,000
Wolfson Foundation£25,000
Co-Operative Group£10,417
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000 09/12/2022
Sunflower Wellbeing Centre 'Fit for the Future' Appeal
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to East Cheshire Hospice
£25,000 07/12/2022
Upgrade of day care centre providing palliative care
Co-Operative Group - Grant to East Cheshire Hospice
£2,919 22/10/2022
Our aim is for everyone who needs us to have access to our professional bereavement support in East Cheshire.
Cheshire Community Foundation - Increasing Accessibility to Cheshire Hospices for the LGBTQ+ community
£2,500 06/10/2022
Increasing Accessibility to Cheshire Hospices for the LGBTQ+ community
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice UK Partnership
£35,000 31/03/2022
Dementia Community Engagement and Outreach Project – Dementia Nurse Specialist - Reimagining Day Hospice Services
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - East Cheshire Hospice - 28/09/21
£5,000 29/11/2021
Core Funding
Co-Operative Group - Grant to East Cheshire Hospice
£3,917 23/10/2021
We would like to provide support before and after a bereavement for people in our local community.
Cheshire Community Foundation - Workforce Wellbeing - COVID-19 Recovery Project
£3,150 25/06/2021
East Cheshire Hospice provides expert palliative care in the community with their Hospice @Home service and in their In Patient Unit free of charge to those adults facing end-of-life in East Cheshire. The Workforce Wellbeing COVID-19 Recovery ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000 12/03/2021
Hospice @Home Coordinated Care Service
Co-Operative Group - Grant to East Cheshire Hospice
£3,581 24/10/2020
Our aim is to support people with dementia and their loved ones in East Cheshire.
Cheshire Community Foundation - extend our emergency Covid-19 grant application to include funding for a Nocospray Disinfectant Machine.
£4,334 18/05/2020
1. East Cheshire Hospice care for those individuals and families living with a Life limiting illness. Our expert and experienced Palliative care nurses support our community in our Hospice and in the community. 2. The impact of Coronavirus has made ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to East Cheshire Hospice
£3,764 15/11/2019
We wish to provide a bereavement service for every child or young person affected by death in our area, for as long as they need us.
Cheshire Community Foundation - Dementia Carer Well-Being Service
£4,000 04/12/2018
1. East Cheshire Hospice Dementia Carer Well-Being Service, supporting carers of people with dementia. 2. The programme is designed to help people who are supporting a person with dementia in their own home. 3. The grant is vital in helping to fund ....more
Cheshire Community Foundation - Childhood Bereavement Service
£15,000 04/12/2018
1. East Cheshire Hospice Childhood Bereavement Service, supporting young people to cope with death and dying 2. Our aim is to be the 'go to place' for all referrals of childhood bereavement in East Cheshire for anyone aged 18 or under having mental ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to East Cheshire Hospice
£5,609 29/11/2017
Your can support the provision of care to patients and their families through doctors, nurses and specialist therapists.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to East Cheshire Hospice
£4,570 04/08/2017
The grant received will go towards our general running costs to support the provision of gold-standard care to our patients.
Cheshire Community Foundation - East Cheshire Hospice @Home
£17,000 31/07/2017
East Cheshire Hospice provides essential end of life care and support to adults with a wide range of diagnoses. This project is a new @Home service which aims to bring high quality care and expertise to the patient where they are at home. The ....more
Cheshire Community Foundation - Living Well With Motor Neurone Disease (Pilot)
£9,904 10/11/2016
East Cheshire Hospice identified a need for the Living Well with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) project - a wide ranging support service for people with Motor Neurone Disease and their carers (MND is a progressive disease with symptoms affecting ....more
Masonic Trust - Hospice Grant
£2,647 19/10/2016
Core funding for hospices
National Lottery Community Fund - ECHOES for Families (East Cheshire Hospice Ongoing Emotional Support)
£180,470 11/07/2012
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The aim of this new project is to provide targeted pre and post bereavement support for children who have lost or are about to lose a significant adult in their lives. The service will initially be targeted at families who have a loved one residing ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 39-68
  • DEBORAH ANN MAXWELL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Gp
  • GERALDINE MARY CRAWFORD Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Lecturer
  • IAN GRANT WILLIAMS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retail Director
  • JENNY MALLON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired
  • JULIETTE WHITE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired
  • KAREN RENITA WATERS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Nurse
  • LOUISE HAUGHTON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired
  • NEIL LANGFORD MCARTHUR Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Accountant
  • NICOLA CHARLOTTE JANE SAMPSON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Transformation Director
  • STEPHEN WILLIAM SPINKS (Chair) Appointed: 2016, Occupation: University Administrator
  • STEPHEN DICKENSON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Commercial Manager
  • DR JONATHAN BECK Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/04/1984, number: 515104
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/04/1984, number: 01807691
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Fundraising Regulator
First registered: 09/01/2016, current status: Large charity (levy paid)
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR06: 1 days late, AR05: 15 days late,
Main office

East Cheshire Hospice
Millbank Drive
Macclesfield
SK10 3DR

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF ILLNESS AND SUFFERING IN SUCH WAYS AS THE ASSOCIATION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, AND IN PARTICULAR IN THE COUNTY OF CHESHIRE AND ADJACENT AREAS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN PARTICULAR THE COUNTY OF CHESHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
Charizone

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