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Impact Report April 2023 – December 2024: For All, For Now, Forever

Hospice UK is the national charity for hospice and palliative care, representing 212 member hospices across the UK. Their impact report for April 2023 to December 2024 covers a landmark funding campaign that secured £126 million from governments across England, Scotland and Wales, member hospices supporting 310,000 patients and making 1.5 million home visits in 2023/24, Dying Matters Awareness Week reaching record audiences, and new equity programmes targeting financial hardship, dementia, trans communities and rural access.

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Member network support (212 hospices); Dying Matters campaign (Awareness Week viewed 57,000+ times — 400% increase on 2023); Compassionate Employers Programme (165,000+ employees reached, 98% better equipped to support bereaved colleagues); PopNAT data tool for hospices; grants programme (hospice projects in prisons, transitional care, palliative home care, community grants); workforce wellbeing programme; Dying Matters Community Grants; Volunteer to Career pilot; 'Death, dying and financial hardship' policy report; trans and gender diverse toolkit; dementia and end of life community of practice (with Dementia UK) Custom geography from upload: UK

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 212 member hospices across all four nations; 310,000 patients supported with palliative and end of life care in 2023/24
Key Metric 2 1.5 million home visits made; 630,000 days and nights of inpatient care; 440,000 appointments to families, carers and friends including bereavement support
Key Metric 3 £126 million in emergency government funding secured for hospice sector across England, Scotland and Wales following sustained Hospice UK campaign

Key Outcomes

  • £100 million capital + £26 million children's hospice revenue funding secured from English government; £4–7 million secured in Wales; £5 million in Scotland — all following Hospice UK-led campaign across all four nations
  • 20,000+ people mobilised to write to their MP or MSP during and after the General Election; hundreds of new MPs briefed within months of taking office on hospice funding crisis
  • Dying Matters Awareness Week animation viewed 57,000+ times in 2024 — a 400% increase on 2023 — driving national conversations about death, dying and end of life language

Geography

UK-Wide

Impact Snapshot
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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...
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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...
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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
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22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
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22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
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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
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1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
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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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349,000+ people completed the Know Your Risk tool to assess their risk of type 2 diabetes in 2024
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£4 million invested in 17 new research projects; total active grants portfolio worth over £45 million
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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