Major Investments - make a difference

It costs £5 million each every year to run Hospice in the Weald and 90 pence of each and every £1 we raise goes towards care.

These are some of the ways we spend the money we raise:

• £360,000 per year, new for 2012, to run a 24-hour, 7 day a week home nursing service for when a patient is approaching the end of life
• £300,000 to run our Day Therapy Centre for a year, attended by up to 100 patients every week
• £190,000 per year to provide  tasty and nutritious meals to tempt patients who have little or no appetite
• £95,000 for running a single bed on the In-Patient Unit for a year
• £60,000 to run our Occupational Therapy team, helping to improve the quality of life for patients in their homes
• £50,000 to provide specialist bandages and garments for  our Lymphoedema patients for a year
• £33,000  for annual funding the new post of  Carer Support Manager  working in the Hospice in the Home team from 2012 per year
• £44,000 for the annual funding of a community based Clinical Nurse Specialist, working with c40 patients at any one time, their carers and families to co-ordinate end of life care
• £31,000 for the annual funding of our Creative Therapist and art materials
• £20,000 for the development of the spiritual spaces
• £16,000 for counselling up to eight children of patients every week
• £15,000 for the annual funding and costs of a part-time Music Therapist
• £10,000 to cover the cost of 18 blood transfusions for day case patients
• £10,000 to deliver ten one-day End of Life Care training courses to care home workers and other health professionals