ST. HELENA HOSPICE LIMITED

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  3 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

Larking Gowen LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“This strong reserve position, alongside the organisation's overall financial health, provides the Board with sufficient assurance to confirm the organisation remains a going concern. There is no material uncertainty regarding our ability to continue operating for the foreseeable future.”

Group structure

1. ST. HELENA HOSPICE LIMITED · parent
   1. St Helena Hospice Trading Limited 1% · England · Operation of charity shops and cafes, administrative services and consultancy and care services
   2. St Helena Care Services Limited 1% · England · Provision of in-home care services
   3. St Helena Cleaning Services Limited 1% · England · Commercial cleaning services
   4. St Helena Creative Services C.I.C. 1% · England · Artistic creation services
   5. Your Hospice Lottery Limited 1% · England · Private limited company (currently dormant)
   6. Make a Smile Lottery Limited 1% · England · Private limited company (currently dormant)

Significant events

• “2024-25 was a year of significant change as we have worked to turnaround the financial deficits of the previous 2 years. Our NHS grant funding has not been increasing either in line with inflation or Agenda for Change pay awards and our grant funding does not reflect the extra activity we have been delivering.”
• “During the year ending March 2025, the Compassionate Communities network in northeast Essex, anchored by St Helena, has directly engaged more than 2,000 people in co-produced activities and reached over 20,000 others indirectly.”
• “In 2024-25, we welcomed two new additions, a general charity shop in Walton and our first-ever acquired café, Slice, located in Colchester town centre. Trading for the cafe is scheduled to begin in 2025-26.”
• “In December 2024, we launched our first-ever Superdraw which was a great success - generating an additional £372,891 in ticket sales and awarding two lucky winners with Christmas bonuses of £5,000 and £10,000!”
• “As part of the strategic review of the group's activities, the directors are considering longer term plans for the company. The company is not expected to trade in 2025-26.”
• “The decision was made for the company to terminate its franchise agreement on 31 March 2025 for St Helena Creative Services C.I.C.”
• “We have made the difficult decision to pause plans for a new hospice facility with a potential care home and retail offer at a new site. These ambitions remain important to us but are not financially feasible in the current climate.”
• “The new restructured service has sadly resulted in eleven redundancies, those being a mix of voluntary and compulsory; the redundancy numbers were minimised by swift action being taken in the autumn of 2024 when a recruitment freeze was put in place.”

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

Filings

7

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +18.4%

  £16,597,000 → £19,643,000

• Cash

  -59.6%

  £1,943,000 → £785,000

• Net assets

  +5.5%

  £11,402,000 → £12,025,000

• Employees

  -4.6%

  348 → 332

• Profit before tax

  +157.4%

  -£1,185,000 → £680,000

• Wages

  +17.6%

  £9,977,000 → £11,728,000

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