Common questions about Keech Hospice's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Keech Hospice a good charity? +
Keech Hospice scores 69 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 57% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are late. 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 Keech Hospice a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Keech Hospice as a registered charity (charity number 1035089). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1035089&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 Keech Hospice's charity number? +
Keech Hospice's charity number is 1035089. 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 Keech Hospice's charity rating? +
Keech Hospice scores 69 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). 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 Keech Hospice have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Keech Hospice. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: late accounts filing; 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 Keech Hospice? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 57% of Keech Hospice'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 Keech Hospice's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 43% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 43% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Keech Hospice. Keech Hospice's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 13 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Keech Hospice receive? +
Keech Hospice reported £14m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Keech Hospice's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-12-22). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Keech Hospice based? +
Keech Hospice's registered contact address is in Luton (LU3 3NT). It tells the regulator it operates in Central Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes, Bedford, with a focus on hospices.
How much is Keech Hospice's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Keech Hospice's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 13 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Keech Hospice's money come from? +
Keech Hospice reported £14m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were trading and fundraising events £7m (48%), charitable activities £3.8m (27%), donations and legacies £3.1m (22%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £1.3m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Keech Hospice? +
The register records Keech Hospice 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 Keech Hospice's trustees paid? +
Keech Hospice's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Keech Hospice previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Keech Hospice: Keech Hospice Care; Luton and South Bedfordshire Hospice; Pasque Charity.
When was Keech Hospice registered as a charity? +
Keech Hospice was entered on the register on 15 March 1994. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02904446).
How does CharityCompare score Keech Hospice? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Keech Hospice'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 Keech Hospice'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.