Annual Report and Accounts 2024/25

Tŷ Hafan is Wales's leading children's hospice, providing free specialist palliative care to children and young people with life-shortening conditions and their families. Their 2024/25 annual report covers 369 children and families supported, 400+ bereaved families, a community service reaching across Wales, and the ongoing Reach Every Child campaign — calling on the Welsh Government to increase statutory funding from 12.4% toward a sustainable 25–30% of care costs so that all 3,655 eligible children in Wales can be reached.

Report snapshot
369 children and their families supported in 2024; 400+ bereaved families supported; only 1 in 10 children with a life-shortening condition in Wales currently reached Key Metric 1
Only 12.4% of funding from statutory sources — Tŷ Hafan and Tŷ Gobaith jointly campaigning for Welsh Government to fund at least 25% of care costs by 2025, rising to 30% by 2030 Key Metric 2
3,655 children in Wales have a life-shortening condition — Tŷ Hafan and Tŷ Gobaith together currently reach only around 1 in 10 Key Metric 3
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📋About

Inpatient care (Sully, Vale of Glamorgan); community palliative care nursing (across Wales); short break and respite care; end-of-life care; sibling support; family support and social work; anticipatory grief support; bereavement support (400+ bereaved families); hydrotherapy; complementary therapy; spiritual care; teenage den; sensory garden; education for professionals; Reach Every Child campaign; retail and fundraising Custom geography from upload: Wales (hospice in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, community services nationwide)

📊Key Metrics

369 children and their families supported in 2024; 400+ bereaved families supported; only 1 in 10 children with a life-shortening condition in Wales currently reached Key Metric 1
Only 12.4% of funding from statutory sources — Tŷ Hafan and Tŷ Gobaith jointly campaigning for Welsh Government to fund at least 25% of care costs by 2025, rising to 30% by 2030 Key Metric 2
3,655 children in Wales have a life-shortening condition — Tŷ Hafan and Tŷ Gobaith together currently reach only around 1 in 10 Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • 369 children and families supported in 2024 — but 9 in 10 eligible families in Wales remain unreached; Reach Every Child campaign actively campaigning for sustainable Welsh Government funding to close this gap
  • £440,000 per year secured from Welsh Government (recurrent for Sixth Senedd lifetime) — a significant step following Family Voices report and Tŷ Hafan/Tŷ Gobaith joint advocacy; new CEO Irfon Rees appointed June 2024, bringing extensive Welsh Government and NHS Wales leadership experience
  • Joint 'Reach Every Child' campaign with Tŷ Gobaith calls on Welsh Government to fund at least 25% of care costs — currently only 12.4% statutory funding against a backdrop of 3,655 children in Wales with life-shortening conditions

📍Geography

Wales

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