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Annual Report and Financial Statements 31 March 2025

Methodist Homes (MHA) is one of the UK's largest care charities, enabling people to live later life well across care homes, retirement living and community hubs. In 2024-25, 16,215 older people were supported; 91% of care homes were rated Good or Outstanding by regulators; 94% of residents were satisfied with their care; occupancy grew from 85.4% to 89.1%; £5m was raised in fundraised income; and 2,425 volunteers gave their time including 273 befriending volunteers making 9,000 calls. Total income was £283m. The new 2025-2030 strategy was launched following completion of the One MHA strategy.

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75 care homes; 59 retirement living schemes; 37 MHA Communities hubs; Key to Me reminiscence and life story programme; MHA Active wellbeing programme; befriending service; music therapy (MusiCare research); specialist dementia care; end of life care; green care; spirituality; digital care plans (Nourish); PainChek app pilot (AI pain detection); Vivaldi infection study; #FixCareForAll lobbying campaign Custom geography from upload: England and Wales

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 16,215 older people supported across 75 care homes, 59 retirement living schemes and 37 community hubs; 91% of services rated Good or Outstanding by regulators
Key Metric 2 94% of residents satisfied with their care; care home occupancy grew from 85.4% to 89.1%; 95% retirement living occupancy; 9,000 befriending calls to 450 older people from 273 volunteers
Key Metric 3 £283m total income; £5m fundraised income (£1.9m from community trusts and grants); 6,075 colleagues; 2,425 volunteers; 87% employee retention (vs 20-30% sector turnover); staff turnover reduced to 18.3% from 23%

Key Outcomes

  • Care home occupancy reached post-pandemic high of 89.1%; 91% of services rated Good or Outstanding — top 20 carehome.co.uk provider; Morel Court Penarth described as 'exceptional' by Care Inspectorate Wales; fundraised income exceeded target at £5m (target was £4m)
  • 5 care homes sold during year as part of strategic review; 2 closures (Swallow Wood, Willesden Court) due to local authority funding gaps; 14 retirement living schemes announced for sale; £4.6m additional NIC burden from Autumn Budget; digital care plans fully integrated across all care homes; new 2025-2030 strategy launched
  • First MHA Music Festival held under #MakeMusicMatter; new website launched June 2024; Care Home Operational Blueprint three-year implementation underway; Commission on Social Care welcomed; parliamentary engagement on social care reform; 490 OSCAR award nominations; Enhancing Later Life Framework replacing individual specialist strategies

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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...
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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