83ffcchisl03cb4c5nzyx8y3hh5pua
Select Page

Governance

Find out about charitable status, our statutory reports and meet our Board of Trustees.

Our Charity

Helen & Douglas House is a Charitable Company Registered by Guarantee, formed under the Companies Acts 1985–9 as a company with exclusively charitable objects. Its governing document is its Memorandum and Articles of Association.

Helen & Douglas House is run by a board of Trustees, who must adhere to all the duties of company directors and all the duties of charity trustees under the Charities Acts.

Impact Report

Helen & Douglas House has produced an Impact Report for 2022/23 which shows the impact we have made to improve the lives of local families with terminally ill and life-limited children in Oxfordshire, the Thames Valley and beyond.

This report contains many successes and celebrations during what was our 40th year.

Annual Report

Helen & Douglas House has produced an Annual Report for the financial year 2022/23.

Helen & Douglas House submits a report of its annual accounts (including a trustees report) to the Charity Commission. These documents, along with further information on the performance of the charity can be found on the Charity Commission website.

Quality Account

The pursuit of excellence in the delivery of care, and in the support services underpinning them, is a strategic aim of Helen & Douglas House. Performance against this aim is regularly reviewed by the Charity’s Trustees.

The Quality Account is a means by which we are able to share information publicly about the quality of care we provide.

Our Commitment to FREDIE 

We celebrate diversity and aim for an equitable, diverse, and inclusive organisation. 

Learn about our commitment to diversity, including governance and progress measurement. We are working to gain level 1 accreditation in Investors in Diversity and provide FREDIE training to staff.

Safeguarding policies

As stated in the Charity Commission’s strategy for dealing with safeguarding issues in charities dated December 2017 the Trustees have published the charity’s safeguarding policies which you can find here and state that any failure to follow these policies will be dealt with as a very serious matter.

We are delighted that the exceptional care we provide to local families has been recognised as ‘outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), our regulator. This ‘outstanding’ rating recognises our approach of putting the families we care for at the heart of everything we do and our aim to be world-class.

Meet the Trustees

Helen & Douglas House Trustees act in a voluntary capacity and meet 4 times a year as a board to ensure that that Helen & Douglas House is run in accordance with its legal, moral and ethical obligations. The Trustee Board also has several subcommittees on which nominated Trustees sit.

Lord Blair of Boughton
Lord Blair of Boughton

Position - Chair

Ian, Lord Blair of Boughton is a cross bench peer, who has been the Chair of the Thames Valley Partnership and Chair of the Woolf ... Read more

Tanya Baldwin
Tanya Baldwin

Tanya has spent her working life in education and has worked for Oxford University since 2012. She is currently Bursar (Chief ... Read more

Lorna Bramwells
Lorna Bramwells

Lorna trained as children's nurse in the 1990's working clinically in Children's Intensive Care and Neurodisability at The Evelina ... Read more

Gina Gill
Gina Gill

Gina Gill is the Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). Read more

Dr Ann Goldman
Dr Ann Goldman

Ann is a retired paediatrician. She has been a pioneer in palliative care for children and was the first specialist paediatrician in ... Read more

David Gye
David Gye

Position - Honorary Treasurer

David retired as an adviser on financial aspects of the energy and infrastructure sectors, working with government and private sector ... Read more

Peter Marland
Peter Marland

Pete grew up in Lancashire and he attended the University of Liverpool and has lived in Milton Keynes since 2007. Pete has worked in ... Read more

Sister Jean Raphael
Sister Jean Raphael

Sister Jean Raphael is a member of the Society of All Saints Sisters of the Poor, the religious community to which Sister Frances ... Read more

Annewen Rowe
Annewen Rowe

Annewen is a retired Solicitor and Senior Civil Servant. She held a variety of strategic posts in various Government Departments ... Read more

Ian Watson
Ian Watson

Ian has recently retired from a 40 year business career, having worked initially for Royal Insurance, where he qualified as a Fellow ... Read more

Martin Wildsmith
Martin Wildsmith

Martin’s career has focused on helping organisations to deliver profitable commercial income.  He has worked within a range of retail ... Read more

Professor Andrew Wilkinson
Professor Andrew Wilkinson

Andrew is a retired consultant paediatrician, having worked previously at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford as a neonatologist. ... Read more

Make a donation

We need to raise over £3 million each year to care for local terminally ill children at the hospice and at home.

Loading...