Common questions about St David's Foundation Hospice Care's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is St David's Foundation Hospice Care a good charity? +
St David's Foundation Hospice Care scores 77 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 60% 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 St David's Foundation Hospice Care a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists St David's Foundation Hospice Care as a registered charity (charity number 1010576). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1010576&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 St David's Foundation Hospice Care's charity number? +
St David's Foundation Hospice Care's charity number is 1010576. 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 St David's Foundation Hospice Care's charity rating? +
St David's Foundation Hospice Care scores 77 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 St David's Foundation Hospice Care have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for St David's Foundation Hospice Care. 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 St David's Foundation Hospice Care? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 60% of St David's Foundation 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 St David's Foundation Hospice Care's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 40% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 41% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at St David's Foundation Hospice Care. St David's Foundation Hospice Care's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 3 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 St David's Foundation Hospice Care receive? +
St David's Foundation Hospice Care reported £9.3m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are St David's Foundation Hospice Care's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-09-30). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is St David's Foundation Hospice Care based? +
St David's Foundation Hospice Care's registered contact address is in Newport (NP20 6NH). It tells the regulator it operates in Gloucestershire, Powys, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport City, Torfaen, with a focus on hospices.
How much is St David's Foundation Hospice Care's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. St David's Foundation Hospice Care's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 3 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 St David's Foundation Hospice Care's money come from? +
St David's Foundation Hospice Care reported £9.3m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were trading and fundraising events £4.2m (45%), charitable activities £3.5m (38%), donations and legacies £1.4m (15%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £167k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to St David's Foundation Hospice Care? +
The register records St David's Foundation 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 St David's Foundation Hospice Care's trustees paid? +
St David's Foundation Hospice Care's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was St David's Foundation Hospice Care previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for St David's Foundation Hospice Care: St Davids Foundation; St Davids Foundation Hospice Care.
When was St David's Foundation Hospice Care registered as a charity? +
St David's Foundation Hospice Care was entered on the register on 21 April 1992. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02700097).
How does CharityCompare score St David's Foundation Hospice Care? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in St David's Foundation 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 St David's Foundation 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.