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Annual Report and Accounts 2024/25

Tŷ Hafan is Wales's leading children's hospice, providing free specialist palliative care to children and young people with life-shortening conditions and their families. Their 2024/25 annual report covers 369 children and families supported, 400+ bereaved families, a community service reaching across Wales, and the ongoing Reach Every Child campaign — calling on the Welsh Government to increase statutory funding from 12.4% toward a sustainable 25–30% of care costs so that all 3,655 eligible children in Wales can be reached.

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About

Inpatient care (Sully, Vale of Glamorgan); community palliative care nursing (across Wales); short break and respite care; end-of-life care; sibling support; family support and social work; anticipatory grief support; bereavement support (400+ bereaved families); hydrotherapy; complementary therapy; spiritual care; teenage den; sensory garden; education for professionals; Reach Every Child campaign; retail and fundraising Custom geography from upload: Wales (hospice in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, community services nationwide)

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 369 children and their families supported in 2024; 400+ bereaved families supported; only 1 in 10 children with a life-shortening condition in Wales currently reached
Key Metric 2 Only 12.4% of funding from statutory sources — Tŷ Hafan and Tŷ Gobaith jointly campaigning for Welsh Government to fund at least 25% of care costs by 2025, rising to 30% by 2030
Key Metric 3 3,655 children in Wales have a life-shortening condition — Tŷ Hafan and Tŷ Gobaith together currently reach only around 1 in 10

Key Outcomes

  • 369 children and families supported in 2024 — but 9 in 10 eligible families in Wales remain unreached; Reach Every Child campaign actively campaigning for sustainable Welsh Government funding to close this gap
  • £440,000 per year secured from Welsh Government (recurrent for Sixth Senedd lifetime) — a significant step following Family Voices report and Tŷ Hafan/Tŷ Gobaith joint advocacy; new CEO Irfon Rees appointed June 2024, bringing extensive Welsh Government and NHS Wales leadership experience
  • Joint 'Reach Every Child' campaign with Tŷ Gobaith calls on Welsh Government to fund at least 25% of care costs — currently only 12.4% statutory funding against a backdrop of 3,655 children in Wales with life-shortening conditions

Geography

Wales

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...
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
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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
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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
Key Metric 3
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
Key Metric 2
£4 million invested in 17 new research projects; total active grants portfolio worth over £45 million
Key Metric 3
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