📋About
Inpatient Unit (14 bedrooms, new hospice building opened 2023/24 — gardens, cuddle beds, jacuzzi spa bathroom, family room, specialist gym and rehab centre); Community Nursing Team (1,321 visits to 898 patients and carers); Hospice at Home (2,303 visits to 376 people); 24-hour phone hub (17,608 calls); Counselling (485 patients and carers); Wellbeing Groups (568 attendances); Rehabilitation team (550 patients); Compassionate Neighbours (40+ volunteers, 127 patients and carers supported); outpatient Norman Cook Wing; complementary therapies; Shaun by the Sea community art trail (raised £850k over two years)
Custom geography from upload: Brighton & Hove, Sussex
📊Key Metrics
2,218 local people directly helped in 2023/24 — 1,716 patients and 502 carers across all services; 144 inpatient patients
Key Metric 1
Total income £14.1 million (up from £2.1m in 2022/23 — including £2m capital appeal and Shaun by the Sea art trail income); 81p of every £1 spent on hospice care
Key Metric 2
17,608 calls to 24-hour telephone hub; 2,303 Hospice at Home visits to 376 people; around 80% of all care delivered in people's own homes
Key Metric 3
✅Key Outcomes
- New hospice building opened — state-of-the-art inpatient ward with garden access, cuddle beds, jacuzzi bathroom, specialist gym; 26% of inpatients discharged home or to a care home following treatment
- Merger with St Barnabas Hospices announced — creating a financially sustainable, unified palliative care offer across Sussex and South East Hampshire; Martlets identity retained throughout transition
- Shaun by the Sea community art trail (Aardman Animations Shaun the Sheep) generated £850k over two years — capturing imagination of Brighton community and becoming a model of innovative hospice fundraising