The Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance

Analysis

The Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in January 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, overseas aid/famine relief and human rights/religious or racial harmony/equality or diversity, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06735120). It says it makes grants to organisations, provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance reported income of £81k and spending of £175k, spending 215% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £327k to £81k (-75%), an average of -29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income dropped by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bucks Search & Rescue (£81k), School of T'ai Chi Chuan London (£81k) and Sheffield Samaritans (£81k).