Health & Wellbeing Housing & Homelessness 2024
Royal Star & Garter

Annual Review 2024

Royal Star & Garter is a UK charity founded in 1916 providing specialist nursing, dementia and therapeutic care to veterans and their partners living with disability or dementia. Across Homes in Surbiton, Solihull and High Wycombe, the charity supported 515 veterans and partners in 2024, delivering 31,800 wellbeing sessions and 8,700 group physiotherapy attendances. It also ran a free Telephone Friendship Service and Day Care and Lunch Clubs for veterans living in the community, and completed a merger with Care for Veterans in early 2025.

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📋About

Over 100 care homes attained Veteran Friendly Framework status by end of 2024

📊Key Metrics

515 veterans and partners supported across residential and community services Key Metric 1
31,800 wellbeing sessions delivered to residents in 2024 Key Metric 2
8,700 attendances to group physiotherapy sessions Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • 94p in every £1 spent directly on care and support for residents
  • 26000000
  • 26800000

📍Geography

UK-Wide

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