Bethlehem Care and Hospice Trust

Analysis

Bethlehem Care and Hospice Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sheffield. It was registered in September 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, the prevention or relief of poverty and religious activities, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations and provides services.

In the financial year ending February 2025, Bethlehem Care and Hospice Trust reported income of £84k and spending of £139k, spending 166% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from February 2021 to February 2025, income grew from £29k to £84k (+192%), an average of +31% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to February 2024, when income rose by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 124% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Bethlehem Care and Hospice Trust 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 The Old Mill Foundation (£84k), The Biscuit Fund (£84k) and Burry Port Plant Dewi (£84k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.