Financial Stewardship Through Growth, Investment and System Value

Rotherham Hospice’s Finance and Resources team is small, but in 2025/26 its impact was organisation-wide. Operating in a challenging hospice funding environment, the team helped the Hospice grow total income to £9.56m, manage expenditure of £10.19m, remain £163k under budget on total expenditure, and close the year with a net deficit of £488k, significantly better than the planned deficit position.

The team supported £822k of capital investment, including £321k to refurbish all 14 Inpatient Unit rooms, while protecting reserves and strengthening financial reporting to trustees.

The team also helped evidence the wider NHS value of hospice care, calculating a minimum avoided NHS activity value of £1.28m from avoided admissions and GP appointments, and £4.85m of NHS-equivalent specialist palliative care delivered through Hospice at Home visits and calls.