Financial benchmarking

On this page, you’ll find financial benchmarking information for hospices. We use this information to help us understand more about the finances of the sector as a whole, and to inform the support we provide our members.

This report analyses the Accounts of UK Charitable Hospices for the year ended 31 March 2023, and was written in partnership with Sayer Vincent.
This year’s report brings together information from the statutory accounts of 186 independent charitable hospices in the UK. It shows a sector with total annual expenditure of £1.8 billion per year (including fundraising costs).
It includes an an analysis of lottery fundraising, courtesy of Local Hospice Lottery.
Hospice Accounts Report 2024
Webinar
We held a webinar on 4th December 2024 to share the findings of this report. View the slide decks from the session:
- Hospice Accounts report - reflections
- Deeper Dive into Hospice Lotteries' accounts
We partnered with haysmacintyre for the seventh year to produce the Hospice Accounts Report.
The 2021 report brings together information from the statutory accounts of 191 independent charitable hospices in the UK, plus two national charities, Marie Curie and Sue Ryder. It shows a sector with a total annual income of £1.6 billion per year.
Hospice Accounts Report 2021
This sixth annual Hospice Accounts Report brings together the accounts of charitable hospices in the UK, which are primarily local charities governed by voluntary trustees. The purpose of the report is to:
- Demonstrate the size and operation of hospice care in the UK;
- Identify and highlight changes over time in the overall operation of these hospices;
- Identify differences between the various sizes of hospice;
- Provide hospices with critical figures and benchmarks against which to compare their own accounts.
Hospice Accounts Report 2020

Financial Benchmarking Service

Hospice UK and db associates have teamed up to offer a new financial benchmarking service to hospices.

We provide a quarterly top line review of hospice finances, which will enable you to compare your own performance against aggregated figures from across the sector. This will also allow Hospice UK to have more contemporary data to use in our advocacy and campaigning work.

Register to join our Financial Benchmarking Network to make sure you are invited to our regular meetings where we will share our findings.