Common questions about Southern Hospice Group's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Southern Hospice Group a good charity? +
Southern Hospice Group scores 88 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 Southern Hospice Group a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Southern Hospice Group as a registered charity (charity number 256789). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=256789&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 Southern Hospice Group's charity number? +
Southern Hospice Group's charity number is 256789. 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 Southern Hospice Group's charity rating? +
Southern Hospice Group scores 88 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 Southern Hospice Group have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Southern Hospice Group. 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 Southern Hospice Group? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 69% of Southern Hospice Group'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 Southern Hospice Group'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 31% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Southern Hospice Group. Southern Hospice Group's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 19 employees paid more than £60,000, including 5 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (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 Southern Hospice Group receive? +
Southern Hospice Group reported £30m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Southern Hospice Group's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-31). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Southern Hospice Group based? +
Southern Hospice Group's registered contact address is in Brighton (BN12 6NZ). It tells the regulator it operates in East Sussex, Hampshire, West Sussex, with a focus on hospices.
How much is Southern Hospice Group's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Southern Hospice Group's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 19 employees paid more than £60,000, including 5 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (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 Southern Hospice Group's money come from? +
Southern Hospice Group reported £30m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £13m (42%), trading and fundraising events £9.1m (30%), charitable activities £7.8m (26%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £6.5m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Southern Hospice Group? +
The register records Southern Hospice Group 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 Southern Hospice Group's trustees paid? +
Southern Hospice Group's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Southern Hospice Group previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Southern Hospice Group: St Barnabas Nursing Home Limited; St. Barnabas Hospices (Sussex) LTD; St. Barnabas' Hospice (Worthing); St. Barnabas' Hospice (Worthing) Limited.
When was Southern Hospice Group registered as a charity? +
Southern Hospice Group was entered on the register on 3 October 1968. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00930107).
How does CharityCompare score Southern Hospice Group? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Southern Hospice Group'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 Southern Hospice Group'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.