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Galway Hospice Annual Report 2025

Galway Hospice Foundation is the specialist palliative care provider for Galway and Mayo, serving a population of over 408,000. The report covers calendar year 2025 and is based in Ireland, so geography is International. The report also contains separate Mayo figures; only Galway/community-team figures are used here. Contact email is the fundraising address; the report lists named staff addresses but no Head of Fundraising was confirmed. Source: Galway Hospice Annual Report 2025 PDF, retrieved Oct 2026.

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About

Specialist palliative care in Galway and Mayo through inpatient, day care and community services, working in partnership with the HSE; therapy sessions for patients; and family support

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Supported more than 1,600 patients in 2025 across Galway and Mayo (figure from the Galway Hospice announcement of the report)
Key Metric 2 Community Palliative Care Team supported 1,124 patients (up 11%), making 26,564 patient calls and 7,140 visits
Key Metric 3 The 18-bed Galway Hospice Inpatient Unit cared for 351 patients, up 4% on 2024

Key Outcomes

  • 86% of patients receiving care from the Community Palliative Care Team died at home
  • 72% of patients supported by the community team were never readmitted to an acute hospital
  • 99% of community referrals were seen within seven days

Geography

International

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
Total income £18,180,000 and total expenditure £18,560,000 (year ended 31 December 2024, charity no. 1084958 England/Wales and SC039654 Scotland); in 2024 spent £3.8m on...
Key Metric 2
700+ members supported through in-person visits and support calls in 2025; 697 support grants allocated in 2025 for essential items including specialist clothing, cooling...
Key Metric 3
Largest global investment in EB research to date: multi-million-pound drug repurposing trial provisionally agreed with LifeArc partner at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation...
£34,000 raised in 2025 winter appeal supporting families like Darcie's with specialist items, emotional support and research; 697 support grants delivered in 2025; first Members Connect event in Northern Ireland; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed providing global research roadmap
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
Key Metric 2
22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
Key Metric 3
733 beneficiaries represented at tribunals, resulting in £24.5 million in War Pensions awards
1,548 new families living with dementia supported by RBL Admiral Nurses service
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Key Metric 1
3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 3
997 volunteers donated 26,824 hours of support; befriending service awarded Quality in Befriending Excellence — one of only 11 organisations in the UK to...
1,831 National Creative Wellbeing Project packs issued to help veterans reconnect with creativity and independence
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Key Metric 1
349,000+ people completed the Know Your Risk tool to assess their risk of type 2 diabetes in 2024
Key Metric 2
£4 million invested in 17 new research projects; total active grants portfolio worth over £45 million
Key Metric 3
32% of people completing NHS England's Path to Remission programme — which Diabetes UK campaigned for — put their type 2 diabetes into remission
Type 1 Diabetes Grand Challenge invested over £23 million in 19 projects across 161 experts from 47 institutions in 8 countries since 2022