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Hospice HE401

Hospice is a tag in the UK-CAT classification of charities in the UK. It is part of the Health categoryand the Healthcare provider subcategory.

558 charities have been tagged with this tag. This represents 0.27% of all charities.

Keywords to find charities

UK-CAT categories are applied to charities based on a set of keywords, in the form of a regular expression.

The regular expression used to find charities in this tag is:

\b(hospices?)\b

Distribution by size of charity

Income band Charities with tag Percent of all charities
Under £10k 150 0.21%
£10k - £100k 125 0.18%
£100k - £250k 44 0.20%
£250k - £500k 10 0.09%
£500k - £1m 20 0.29%
£1m - £10m 120 1.32%
Over £10m 75 3.36%
Total 544 0.28%

Distribution by charity regulator

Regulator Charities with tag Percent of all charities
ccew 499 0.29%
oscr 44 0.18%
ccni 15 0.21%
Total 558 0.27%

Ten largest charities (by income)

Name Latest income
MARIE CURIE [Charity number: 207994]
Marie Curie is a UK charity dedicated to the care of people with terminal illnesses:Provide specialist care for the terminally illHelp and support families and carers of the terminally illResearch the best ways to care for the terminally illCampaign for the terminally ill to be able to die in their place of choice
£181,101,000
SUE RYDER [Charity number: 1052076]
Provide specialist palliative care in our hospices and in patients' homes.Provide health and social support via community services. Provide grief and bereavement support.
£106,110,000
Sue Ryder [Charity number: SC039578]
The Objects of the Charity are: 3.1 to provide or assist in the provision of care for persons suffering from any serious or permanent disability, incapacity or illness, whether physical or mental. 3.2 to relieve the needs of those people potentially excluded from society by reason of old age, ill health (physical or mental), disability, poverty, or criminal history, and to assist their integration into society for the public benefit. 3.3 to advance the education of the public about the causes of disability, incapacity or illness, whether physical or mental, and the means of relieving those needs. 3.4 to relieve the mental and physical suffering of persons affected by bereavement or loss, including by the provision of counselling and support for such persons.
£106,110,000
THE HOSPITAL SATURDAY FUND [Charity number: 1123381]
The Charitable Company's principal activities are grant making to medical charities, hospices and hospitals and to individuals with health or disability problems. These donations and grants were made possible by the surplus profits of the Charitable Company's trading Company, HSF health plan, being gifted to The Hospital Saturday Fund.
£34,712,364
HOSPICE UK [Charity number: 1014851]
Hospice UK is the national charity working for those experiencing death, dying and bereavement. Our strategic goals underpin our programmes and aim to ensure hospice quality care is delivered in any setting; tackle inequality and widen access to hospice care; build community capacity and resilience and empower a strong, dynamic and responsive hospice sector.
£34,097,000
Hospice UK [Charity number: SC041112]
Objects 3. The objects of the Charity are: 3.1 to facilitate and promote the relief, care and treatment of the sick, especially of the dying, and the support and care of their families and carers and of the bereaved 3.2 to facilitate and promote the charitable activities of Independent Hospices. 3.3 to provide or facilitate education and training for professionals and volunteers engaged in palliative care and increase awareness among the general public of the values, principles and practice of hospice and palliative care
£34,097,000
Southern Hospice Group [Charity number: 256789]
Providing end of life care for adults in our local community, in their home or at our adult hospice - St Barnabas House and caring for life limited children throughout Sussex at our children's hospice - Chestnut Tree House.
£30,337,000
FARLEIGH HOSPICE [Charity number: 284670]
Adult Hospice
£30,248,000
ST CHRISTOPHERS HOSPICE [Charity number: 210667]
St Christopher's Hospice exists to promote and provide skilled and compassionate palliative care of the highest quality. This high quality service is delivered to over 2,000 dying individuals and their families, friends and carers every year. We share our skills and expertise with others in the field through our extensive education and training programme and research into improving care.
£29,419,000
Children’s Hospices Across Scotland [Charity number: SC019724]
To promote the relief of illness and suffering in such ways as the Company shall from time to time think fit
£26,244,000

Ten random charities

Name Latest income
RICHARD RADCLIFFE TRUST [Charity number: 1068930]
We give grants, not exceeding 5000, to local and national charitable organisations supporting young people to help them get a proper start in life, for example by facilitating technical training. We also support charities helping the physically handicapped, those who are severely deaf and blind, hospice-care for the terminally ill, and nature conservancy.
£60,640
CORNWALL HOSPICE CARE LIMITED [Charity number: 1113140]
Cornwall Hospice Care provides help and relief to people suffering from cancer and other life threatening illnesses by providing and promoting specialist palliative care to the people of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.The charity achieves this by providing In Patient and Out Patient specialist palliative care at its two hospices, Mount Edgcumbe Hospice,St Austell and St Julia's Hospice,Hayle
£13,443,098
CYNTHIA SPENCER HOSPICE CHARITY [Charity number: 1174402]
THE CYNTHIA SPENCER HOSPICE CHARITY RAISE FUNDS TO SUPPORT STAFF AND PATIENT NEEDS AT CYNTHIA SPENCER HOSPICE
£1,643,188
ST FRANCIS HOSPICE FOR CATS [Charity number: 1062053]
The object of the charity is to relieve the suffering of cats that are in need of care and attention, in particular those who are elderly, infirm, chronically and terminally ill and to provide facilities for their reception and care.
£6,096
LADY STRICKLAND TRUST FOR MALTA [Charity number: 221992]
General charitable purposes including using the income earned to help entities such as the Malta Hospice Movement, an organisation focussed on palliative care and the Daughters of the Mary Help of Christians.
£4,206
TY CYMORTH (CARMARTHEN AND DISTRICT) HOSPICE CARE APPEAL [Charity number: 1020279]
Fund raises money to provide Hospice Day Care to adult patients suffering from life-limiting illness and bereavement service to all ages and to provide extra facilities for benefit of patients which are not already provided by Hywel Dda U.H.B.Hold coffee mornings, concerts etc. for fund-raising and publicise palliative care service through local papers, leaflets, etc.
£250
THE SQUIRES FOUNDATION [Charity number: 328149]
The Foundation supports the following; Social Welfare - particularly the relief of need, hardship and distress, Community Development, work which supports Children, Young People and the Elderly, local Hospitals and Hospices and Christian Activities. Grants can be one-off or recurrent and are made primarily in Tyneside and Northumberland.
£191,739
THE RENE AND GHISLAINE OF PARIS HEALING FOUNDATION [Charity number: 1158561]
The Foundation?s principal activity is to promote and protect the physical and mental health for the public benefit, in particular but not exclusively, to help people suffering from Parkinson?s Disease or those who are patients within a hospice, by supporting holistic therapies accepted as being embraced by the first and second groups of therapies by the House of Lords
£105,397
THE HOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD [Charity number: 701876]
The Bassetlaw Hospice, working in partnership with the Nottinghamshire Foundation NHS Trust, provides facilities and services to support palliative care for the local community. It exists to enable patients living with a progressive life limiting illness and their carers, to achieve the best quality of life.
£516,145
ST MICHAEL'S HOSPICE(NORTH HAMPSHIRE) [Charity number: 1002856]
St Michael's Hospice was established to meet the needs of persons of either sex (without regard to race or creed) with active, progressive and advanced illness, by the provision of specialist palliative care. To promote the highest quality of life for patients with continued support for their families and carers and to ensure that sufficient resources are always available for this purpose.
£6,016,416