What this is built from
Public information. Every figure carries the source it came from.
The sources
| Source | What it supplies |
|---|---|
| The public hospice finder | Which hospices there are, where they are, whether they care for adults or children, and each one’s own website. |
| Charity Commission for England and Wales | What each hospice charity is for, who for, and how, in the register’s own words, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Companies House | Legal form and company type, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | The English indices of deprivation 2025, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Office for National Statistics | Which local authority district a postcode is in, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
What the register cannot say
241 of the 304 entries are on the charity register and 10 carry nothing at all. That is lower than it looks, and the reason is the unit: many of these are one site of a charity registered under a different name. A Marie Curie hospice is not itself a registered charity; Marie Curie is.
two entr(ies) could not be placed in a district from the address given. They are in the list and not in the comparison.
What this will not do
- It does not contact anybody. Nothing here has been sent to a hospice, or to Hospice UK.
- No telephone numbers, no personal email addresses and no full postcodes. Each hospice’s own website is here, because a website is a route to an organisation.
- Nothing is scored and nobody is ranked. There is no good and bad hospice on this site and there never will be.
- No claim wider than what was counted. “No hospice gives an address in this district” is a fact about a list. “Nobody there gets hospice care” is a claim about the world, and nothing here is in a position to make it.
How current this is
Nothing here is typed in or kept up by hand. Every page is produced from the sources above, and carries the date it was made.