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Treetops Hospice Impact Report 2025/2026

Treetops Hospice's first annual Impact Report sets out how its care services were delivered in 2025 and the difference they made to patients and families. Across all its services the hospice received 2,105 referrals, supported 2,116 patients, delivered 31,646 hours of care and supported 644 deaths. It receives 18.2% of its income from NHS partners and generates the remaining 81% through retail, lottery, events, in memory giving and grants, with more than 600 volunteers working across the charity.

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About

Treetops Hospice is an independent charity based at Risley, between Derby and Nottingham, providing specialist palliative and end of life care, therapies and family support for people living with life-limiting illness and those close to them. Around 600,000 people live in its catchment area.

Key Metrics

2,116 patients supported across all services in 2025
31,646 hours of care delivered in 2025
2,105 referrals received in 2025

Key Outcomes

  • 644 deaths supported across all clinical services in 2025
  • More than 600 volunteers supporting every area of the charity
  • 81% of income generated by the charity itself through retail, lottery, events, in memory giving and grants

Geography

East Midlands

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
Impact Snapshot
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
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
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
Impact Snapshot
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