Common questions about Lewis-Manning Hospice Care's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Lewis-Manning Hospice Care a good charity? +
Lewis-Manning Hospice Care scores 92 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 67% 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 Lewis-Manning Hospice Care a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Lewis-Manning Hospice Care as a registered charity (charity number 1120193). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1120193&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 Lewis-Manning Hospice Care's charity number? +
Lewis-Manning Hospice Care's charity number is 1120193. 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 Lewis-Manning Hospice Care's charity rating? +
Lewis-Manning Hospice Care scores 92 out of 100 on CharityCompare (5 stars — Exceptional). 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 Lewis-Manning Hospice Care have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Lewis-Manning Hospice Care. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (none flagged on this profile). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Lewis-Manning Hospice Care? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 67% of Lewis-Manning Hospice Care'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 Lewis-Manning Hospice Care's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 5% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 5% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Lewis-Manning Hospice Care. Lewis-Manning Hospice Care's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee 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 Lewis-Manning Hospice Care receive? +
Lewis-Manning Hospice Care reported £3.6m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Lewis-Manning Hospice Care's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-01). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Lewis-Manning Hospice Care based? +
Lewis-Manning Hospice Care's registered contact address is in Bournemouth (BH15 2JD). It tells the regulator it operates in Dorset, Hampshire, Bournemouth, Poole, with a focus on hospices.
How much is Lewis-Manning Hospice Care's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Lewis-Manning Hospice Care's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee 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 Lewis-Manning Hospice Care's money come from? +
Lewis-Manning Hospice Care reported £3.6m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £1.6m (45%), trading and fundraising events £1.5m (40%), charitable activities £479k (13%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £443k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Lewis-Manning Hospice Care? +
The register records Lewis-Manning Hospice Care 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 Lewis-Manning Hospice Care's trustees paid? +
Lewis-Manning Hospice Care's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits (payments for providing services). Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
What was Lewis-Manning Hospice Care previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Lewis-Manning Hospice Care: The Lewis-Manning Trust.
When was Lewis-Manning Hospice Care registered as a charity? +
Lewis-Manning Hospice Care was entered on the register on 23 July 2007. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 06278709).
How does CharityCompare score Lewis-Manning Hospice Care? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Lewis-Manning Hospice Care'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 Lewis-Manning Hospice Care'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.