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Impact Report 2024-2025

The report covers compassionate hospice care at home, the Turnchapel specialist unit, family support and community fundraising in 2024-2025.

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About

St Luke's Hospice Plymouth is a registered charity providing specialist end-of-life care for people in Plymouth and surrounding communities.

Key Metrics

Patients cared for at home More than 2,000 patients received support from expert nurses and urgent care teams in their own homes during the reporting year.

Key Outcomes

  • 245 patients received specialist care at the Turnchapel unit.

Geography

South West

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