Common questions about Weldmar Hospicecare's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Weldmar Hospicecare a good charity? +
Weldmar Hospicecare scores 86 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) 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 Weldmar Hospicecare a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Weldmar Hospicecare as a registered charity (charity number 1000414). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1000414&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 Weldmar Hospicecare's charity number? +
Weldmar Hospicecare's charity number is 1000414. 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 Weldmar Hospicecare's charity rating? +
Weldmar Hospicecare scores 86 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 Weldmar Hospicecare have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Weldmar Hospicecare. 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 Weldmar Hospicecare? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 67% of Weldmar Hospicecare'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 Weldmar Hospicecare's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 33% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 34% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Weldmar Hospicecare. Weldmar Hospicecare's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 14 employees paid more than £60,000, including 4 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £130,001–£140,000 (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 Weldmar Hospicecare receive? +
Weldmar Hospicecare reported £12m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Weldmar Hospicecare's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-02). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Weldmar Hospicecare based? +
Weldmar Hospicecare's register entry is at DT1 2SL. It tells the regulator it operates in Dorset, with a focus on hospices.
How much is Weldmar Hospicecare's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Weldmar Hospicecare's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 14 employees paid more than £60,000, including 4 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £130,001–£140,000 (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 Weldmar Hospicecare's money come from? +
Weldmar Hospicecare reported £12m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were trading and fundraising events £5m (41%), donations and legacies £4.2m (34%), charitable activities £2.6m (21%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £2.7m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Weldmar Hospicecare? +
The register records Weldmar Hospicecare 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 Weldmar Hospicecare's trustees paid? +
Weldmar Hospicecare's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Weldmar Hospicecare previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Weldmar Hospicecare: Joseph Weld & Trimar Hospice and Cancercare Dorset; Joseph Weld and Trimar Hospice Trust; Joseph Weld Hospice Trust; The Dorset Respite and Hospice Trust; Weldmar Hospicecare Trust.
When was Weldmar Hospicecare registered as a charity? +
Weldmar Hospicecare was entered on the register on 28 September 1990. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02520727).
How does CharityCompare score Weldmar Hospicecare? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Weldmar Hospicecare'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 Weldmar Hospicecare'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.