St Catherines Hospice (Lancashire) Limited

Analysis

St Catherines Hospice (Lancashire) Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Preston. It was registered in January 1982, 44 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 01602467). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, St Catherines Hospice (Lancashire) Limited reported income of £10.4m and spending of £10.0m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £7.6m to £10.4m (+36%), an average of +7.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, St Catherines Hospice (Lancashire) Limited sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Touchstone-Leeds (£10.3m), St Wilfrid's Hospice (South Coast) Limited (£10.4m) and St Leonard's Hospice York (£10.3m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from trading 40%, charitable activities 29%, donations and legacies 27% and investments 3.6%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £1.3m. Charitable activities took 73% of spending and raising funds 27%. Reserves of £7.4m would cover about 9 months of spending at that rate. It employed 169 people.