ST. LUKE'S HOSPICE PLYMOUTH

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  6 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Bishop Fleming LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“We believe that the charity's financial statements should be prepared on a going-concern basis on the grounds that current and future sources of funding or support will be adequate for the charity's needs.”

Group structure

1. ST. LUKE'S HOSPICE PLYMOUTH · parent
   1. SLH Ventures Limited 100% · Fundraising in support of the parent charity

Significant events

• “Reflecting on the past year, we have continued to deal with the impact of an economy that has shown sluggish growth, with GDP flat in the second half of 2024. Overall inflation has remained high with cost of food, energy, and insurance all increasing throughout the year.”
• “Following a general election in July 2024, we saw a change in government and promises of sweeping reforms to health through the creation of a 10-year plan.”
• “This year has been a historic one with the introduction in October 2024 of a Bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales and its progression through parliament.”
• “Following a CQC review in September 2024, we are proud to retain our overall rating of "Outstanding", with exceptional ratings in the following areas of assessment: Caring, Effective, Responsive, Well-Led and a "Good" rating in Safety.”
• “To enhance the physical environment for patients and their families at our specialist unit at Turnchapel, we invested in a significant revamp of our ward garden.”
• “Investing in our people across the organisation is integral to our goals. Celebrating individual and team achievements of our staff and volunteers, we held our inaugural recognition awards ceremony.”
• “Initiation of the process to recruit a permanent CEO for the organisation was approved by the Board of Trustees in September 2024. George Lillie, our seconded CEO, was appointed to the substantive role in November 2024.”
• “During the year ended 31 March 2025, we received 2,011 new patient referrals, resulting in the delivery of 3,822 individual episodes of care. This compares with 4,298 episodes of care in the previous year. The 476 decrease of episodes of care is mainly due the six months loss of activity from the hospice hospital team who left St Luke's employment on 1 October 2024 and are now directly employed by University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

15

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

last 12 months

Officers resigned

6

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +0.2%

  £8,618,016 → £8,634,094

• Cash

  -9%

  £6,788,034 → £6,177,687

• Net assets

  -4.8%

  £13,625,857 → £12,976,971

• Employees

  +0.6%

  330 → 332

• Operating profit

  -28.2%

  -£596,877 → -£765,342

• Profit before tax

  -28.2%

  -£596,877 → -£765,342

• Wages

  +1.2%

  £8,310,603 → £8,411,960

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers