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Sobell House Impact Report 2025-26

Sobell House Hospice's Impact Report 2025-26 shows the difference its specialist palliative care makes across Oxfordshire: 5,097 patients cared for in their homes, in hospital and within the hospice, 3,157 home visits by the community care team, 457 inpatient stays and over £4 million raised through fundraising, charity shops and gifts in Wills.

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Sobell House Hospice (Registered Charity No. 1118646) provides specialist palliative care and support to patients and their families across Oxfordshire, in their homes, in hospital and within the hospice.

Key Metrics

Patients cared for 5,097 patients cared for in their homes, in hospital and within the hospice
Home visits 3,157 home visits made by the community care team
Inpatient stays 457 patients stayed on the hospice's inpatient unit
Hospital referrals 3,049 referrals made to the hospital palliative care team
Funds raised Over £4 million raised through fundraising, charity shops and gifts in Wills

Key Outcomes

  • 5,097 patients received specialist palliative care across home, hospital and hospice settings, with 1,439 patients under care at any one time.
  • The community care team made 3,157 home visits and the Palliative Care Hub made 37,347 calls to support patients and families.
  • Over £4 million was raised through fundraising, charity shops and gifts in Wills to fund compassionate, dignified end-of-life care.

Geography

South East

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