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Impact Report 2024/25: How We Made an Impact

Sue Ryder provides specialist palliative, end-of-life and bereavement care across the UK through 7 hospices, community nursing, and digital services. Their 2024/25 impact report covers 655,100+ hours of palliative care, nearly 59,000 Hospice at Home visits, and a decade of the Online Bereavement Community now with 41,800+ members. New programmes targeted dementia-friendly care, learning disability support, and health inequalities outreach across diverse communities.

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About

Palliative and end-of-life care across 7 hospices and community sites (Reading, Cheltenham, Moggerhanger, Peterborough, Leeds, Keighley); Hospice at Home; Palliative Care Hubs; Online Bereavement Community; Online Bereavement Counselling (free video sessions); Grief Guide (self-help platform); Grief Kind Spaces (25+ community drop-ins); influencing and campaigning; 450+ Sue Ryder shops; Sue Ryder Lottery Custom geography from upload: UK

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 655,100+ hours of palliative and end-of-life care delivered in 2024/25; nearly 59,000 face-to-face Hospice at Home visits
Key Metric 2 Online Bereavement Community reached 41,800+ members (up from under 500 at launch a decade ago); 220,000+ visitors; 66,000+ active Grief Guide users
Key Metric 3 £37 million cost of running palliative and end-of-life care services; 600 nurses, doctors and healthcare professionals; 1.4 million volunteer hours

Key Outcomes

  • Online Bereavement Community reached 41,800+ members in its 10th anniversary year — grown from under 500 at launch; 220,000+ visits confirming it as the UK's leading online grief support resource
  • Built relationships with 290+ organisations supporting diverse communities; attended 60+ events to address health inequalities in palliative care access — covering LGBTQIA+, Global Majority, neurodiverse and rural communities
  • Nearly 5,000 people signed Sue Ryder's letter to government ahead of 2024 General Election; contributed evidence to the Commission on Palliative and End-of-Life Care on gaps in access to high-quality palliative support

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