We’ve been adding more hospices to our charity database recently. By far the best of the bunch is Martin House (see profile), a children’s hospice in Yorkshire whose thorough and honest report earned them a highly respectable 73% for Quality of Reporting.

Other new hospices fared less well: the annual reports from the Ashgate Hospice (see profile), St. Margaret’s Somerset Hospice (see profile), and Havens Hospices (see profile) could have all done with more detail, and scored an average of 66% for transparency. 

Lagging behind is Myton Hospices (see profile) which gained only 53% for Quality of Reporting – the report could have said far more about what the charity got up to during the year.

Two health charities, also profiled for the first time this year, gained good Quality of Reporting scores.  The first is the Alzheimer’s Research Trust (see profile) who spent more that £4.5 million in 2006-07 funding research projects into the most common cause of dementia.  The report gained 72% for transparency, and would probably have become one of Intelligent Giving’s Top Ranked charities had it told us more about its plans, both for this year and next.

The second is DebRA (see profile) who fund research and provide support for those suffering from the rare skin condition Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) and has innumerable celebrity supporters.  It was refreshing to see the report explaining why its fundraising costs were so high, and the charity’s openness earned it a Quality of Reporting score of 71%.
 

 

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