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.

Report snapshot
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 1
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 2
£37 million cost of running palliative and end-of-life care services; 600 nurses, doctors and healthcare professionals; 1.4 million volunteer hours Key Metric 3
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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

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 1
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 2
£37 million cost of running palliative and end-of-life care services; 600 nurses, doctors and healthcare professionals; 1.4 million volunteer hours Key Metric 3

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

2025

Annual Report 2024/25

£20.8m raised in 2024/25 (up from £17.4m in 2023/24)
Key Metric 1
£9.6m raised from 176 legacy gifts; £14m committed to new Total Body PET-CT scanner
Key Metric 2
49,000 active supporters; 3,857 running participants (doubled in 3 years); 83p in every £1 goes directly to patients
Key Metric 3
MyChristie-MyHealth ePROMs system reduces clinician time on routine reviews by up to 23% and enables earlier symptom detection
2026

Impact Report Year Ending April 2026

2,829 children, parents, siblings and grandparents supported; 506 families with a child in treatment
Key Metric 1
220 bereaved families supported; 424 individuals on 93 boat trips; 692 individuals in 165 cabin breaks
Key Metric 2
£71,935 unlocked in essential support; 1,320 social work hours; 188 creative therapy sessions and 271 counselling sessions delivered
Key Metric 3
Families show average 0.7 point improvement across five Mo's Outcomes after support begins; biggest gains in social participation and accessing emotional support