Common questions about Havens Hospices's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Havens Hospices a good charity? +
Havens Hospices scores 87 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 69% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is Havens Hospices a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Havens Hospices as a registered charity (charity number 1022119). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1022119&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is Havens Hospices's charity number? +
Havens Hospices's charity number is 1022119. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is Havens Hospices's charity rating? +
Havens Hospices scores 87 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does Havens Hospices have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Havens Hospices. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: high fundraising costs). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Havens Hospices? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 69% of Havens Hospices's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are Havens Hospices's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 31% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 32% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Havens Hospices. Havens Hospices's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 11 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Havens Hospices receive? +
Havens Hospices reported £21m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Havens Hospices's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-23). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Havens Hospices based? +
Havens Hospices's registered contact address is in Southend (SS2 6PR). It tells the regulator it operates in Barking and Dagenham, Essex, Thurrock, Southend-on-sea, with a focus on hospices.
How much is Havens Hospices's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Havens Hospices's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 11 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does Havens Hospices's money come from? +
Havens Hospices reported £21m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £7.5m (36%), donations and legacies £7.3m (35%), trading and fundraising events £5.5m (27%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £2.4m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Havens Hospices? +
The register records Havens Hospices as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are Havens Hospices's trustees paid? +
Havens Hospices's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Havens Hospices previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Havens Hospices: Havens Christian Hospice; South East Essex Christian Hospice; South East Essex Christian Hospice (Fair Havens).
When was Havens Hospices registered as a charity? +
Havens Hospices was entered on the register on 2 June 1993. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02805007).
How does CharityCompare score Havens Hospices? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Havens Hospices's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Havens Hospices's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.