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Annual Impact Review 2024

Nightingale Hammerson is a nearly 185-year-old charity providing residential, nursing, dementia, respite, palliative and end-of-life care for older Jewish people across two London care homes — Nightingale House in Clapham and Hammerson House in Hampstead. The charity is a pioneer of intergenerational care, with 70 children from the Apples and Honey Nightingale Nursery spending their days alongside residents at Nightingale House. In 2022/23 total income from charitable activities was £19.1m, with fundraising generating £3.9m and £6.36 raised for every £1 spent.

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About

Residential, nursing, dementia, respite, palliative and end-of-life care; intergenerational programme with on-site nursery; volunteer-led arts, music, reminiscence and befriending sessions; therapies programme; spiritual care; Reach by Nightingale Hammerson community outreach initiative; Care Home Research Forum

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 247 care home places across two London homes, with specialised households for residential, nursing, dementia, palliative and end-of-life care
Key Metric 2 £3.9m raised in donations and legacies, generating £6.36 for every £1 spent on fundraising
Key Metric 3 Gold Award for Social Care Excellence from Professor Deborah Sturdy CBE, Chief Nurse for Social Care, awarded to the full Nightingale Hammerson team

Key Outcomes

  • Intergenerational care model with 70 children from Apples and Honey Nightingale Nursery spending their days alongside residents at Nightingale House, pioneering an award-winning model since 2017
  • New 'Reach by Nightingale Hammerson' initiative launched to support older Jewish people to live better for longer at home through education, research and community engagement
  • Volunteers recognised at national level including National Care Awards Sara Berrio Care Champion, and JVN Awards Volunteer of the Year, Lifetime Achievement and Team of the Year

Geography

London

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
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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
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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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Key Metric 1
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