How we spend your donations

Most of the funding for our work comes from our dedicated supporters; whether making regular or single donations, donating goods to our shops, taking part in events, or leaving gifts in their wills.

Without the vital contribution of our many supporters, it would be impossible to provide our patients and residents with the expert care and compassionate support they need and deserve.

Thanks to our supporters’ generous donations we are able to:

• provide over 672,500 hours of end-of-life care to thousands of people last year.
• provide Online Bereavement Support to those struggling with grief when a loved one has died: professional counselling via video chat, an online community to connect people with others also struggling with loss, and a range of online information and resources around death and dying
• give patients the chance to get the most out of life, even through the most difficult times.

Our patients and residents are so grateful for the support you give them to meet the challenges they face every day, so ‘thank you’ from all of us.

• £25 could pay for a patient’s meals for the day in one of our hospices.
• £30 could fund an hour of expert care, so our Sue Ryder doctors and nurses can manage patients’ pain and symptoms, and make more space for a family’s final days to be filled with love.
• £65 could provide one therapy session such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy or complementary therapy. Relaxing therapies and techniques such as aromatherapy and massage can help to promote wellbeing and ease someone’s symptoms.
• £75 could pay for one Online Bereavement Counselling Service session, supporting someone who is grieving.
• £720 could help fund another 24 hours of expert care so that someone can spend their final days in familiar surroundings, with treasured memories and their family.

It costs around £3,893 for someone to be cared for at home in their final days by a Sue Ryder Hospice at Home Nurse.

£16,000 would pay to run one of our Sue Ryder hospices for a day. Our dedicated hospice teams include doctors, nurses, care assistants, occupational therapists and family support teams filling final days with kindness and love.