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Forget Me Not Children's Hospice

Impact Report 2024/2025

Forget Me Not Children's Hospice, based at Russell House in Huddersfield, cares for babies, children and young people with life-shortening conditions and their families across West Yorkshire. Its Impact Report 2024/2025 shows 1,075 children, siblings and relatives supported during the year.

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From Russell House, which has its own hydrotherapy pool, Forget Me Not supports families from pregnancy and birth onwards. It offers day care, short breaks and respite, end-of-life care and step-down care, along with family support, sibling support and creative therapies, and bereavement counselling continues for families after a child has died. Fifteen charity shops and the businesses in its 99er Business Club and Platinum Partner programmes help fund the care.

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Forget Me Not supported 1,075 individuals, including children, siblings and relatives, across Kirklees, Bradford, Calderdale, Leeds and Wakefield in 2024/25.
Key Metric 2 The hospice delivered 312 hours of end-of-life care, 933 bereavement support sessions, 515 hydrotherapy sessions and 4,890 hours of funded placement care.
Key Metric 3 160 paid staff and 495 volunteers supported the work, with young volunteers up 73% (from 59 to 102); 78p of every £1 raised goes directly to care.

Key Outcomes

  • 100% of family survey respondents (December 2024) said they were very satisfied with the care received.
  • Uzma, mother of four, whose son Ahmad (4) receives respite care, describes the service as life-changing: "If ever I have a problem, there's always someone here who can help."
  • Corporate supporters raised more than £156,000 (14 Platinum Partners £116,000+ and 104 99er Business Club members £40,000+), helping the charity raise the 80% of its £6.5 million budget it must fund independently.

Geography

Yorkshire and the Humber

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