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Impact Report 2025/26: When Care Matters Most

Haven House Children's Hospice cares for seriously ill babies and children up to 18 and their families across North and East London and surrounding areas. This is its Impact Report 2025/26, When Care Matters Most. Registered charity number 1044296, as stated in the Annual Report and Accounts. Some therapy and bereavement counts in the PDF could not be matched reliably to their labels and were left out. Contact email is the general enquiries address; the report names an interim Director of Income Generation and Marketing but no email was found. Source: Haven House Impact Report 2025/26 PDF, retrieved Oct 2026.

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About

Round-the-clock hospice care at Woodford Green; day care and overnight stays; Hospice at Home; end of life and bereavement support; music therapy, physiotherapy, yoga therapy, art therapy and counselling; sibling support; family support including benefits and housing advocacy; 50 family events

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Supported 461 babies, children and young people in 2025/26 (325 in 2024/25) and welcomed 207 new families, including 139 children and families who transferred from Richard House Children's Hospice following its closure
Key Metric 2 Delivered 24,781 hours of nursing and therapeutic care, and 695 day care respite sessions at home and hospice (542 the previous year, a 28% increase)
Key Metric 3 Volunteers contributed 25,143 hours, worth more than £372,000 at the London Living Wage; supporters raised £4.5 million

Key Outcomes

  • Maintained continuity of care for families from Richard House after its closure, adding five clinical staff while keeping care safe for existing families
  • Recorded no severe incidents during the year and received 230 compliments across its services
  • Introduced support groups for foster parents, male carers and grandparents, and gave food vouchers to 30 families ahead of school holidays

Geography

London

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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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