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The newly-published Hospice Health Report sets out how hospice fundraising teams have weathered the storm of the pandemic, but face significant challenges in the coming years

16 January 2024

Hospice Health Report 2024: Helping hospices work towards success and sustainability

The newly-published Hospice Health Report sets out how hospice fundraising teams have weathered the storm of the pandemic, but face significant challenges in the coming years.

In the second of a two-part blog Hospice UK's Interim Chief Executive Craig Duncan shares some of the common self-reported reasons why hospices found themselves towards the bottom of the Hospice Financial Sustainability Index

13 June 2022

Lessons from the Hospice Financial Sustainability Index part 2

Hospice UK's former Interim Chief Executive Craig Duncan shares the self-reported reasons why hospices found themselves towards the bottom of the Index.

Hospice UK's Interim Chief Executive Craig Duncan shares his interpretation of Hospice UK's Hospice Finance Sustainability Index

06 June 2022

Lessons from the Hospice Financial Sustainability Index part 1

Only a quarter of all UK hospices are classified as being under 'severe financial stress'. Hospice UK's former Interim Chief Executive Craig Duncan discusses this.

Hospice UK's Interim Chief Executive Craig Duncan shares his overview of the current financial position facing hospices

30 May 2022

Hospice Financing: an overview

Hospice UK's former Interim Chief Executive Craig Duncan shares his overview of the current financial position facing hospices and the upcoming challenges.

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26 May 2022

How can the reserves policy help?

Helena Wilkinson considers how reserves and reserves policies can benefit charities in the final part of her Hospice Reserves and Reserves Policy Guidance blog series.

Strategy and statistics

25 May 2022

Reserve policy's link to strategy, resilience & income risk

Helena Wilkinson of charity and NFP sector accountants Price Bailey explores one of the biggest issues in managing the finances of a charity.

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25 May 2022

Understanding Income Risk

In this blog, Helena Wilkinson of charity and NFP sector accountants Price Bailey focuses on how to assess income risk.