Sue Ryder (charity)

Sue Ryder care for people with complex conditions in their hospices and palliative care hubs, as well as providing care in people’s homes, in the community and online.{{cite news |url=https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/sue-ryder-chief-step-down/management/article/1849150 |title=Sue Ryder chief to step down |work=Third Sector |date=28 November 2023 |accessdate=December 8, 2023 }} The charity provides palliative care and support from its specialist centres and in people's homes. It operates a free [https://www.sueryder.org/online-bereavement-counselling Online Bereavement Counselling Service].,{{cite web |url=https://www.sueryder.org/how-we-can-help/someone-close-to-me-has-died/bereavement-support-we-offer |title=What bereavement support do Sue Ryder offer? |publisher=Sue Ryder |accessdate=25 November 2019 }} connecting people who are grieving with appropriate information and resources, qualified counsellors or a community support network [https://community.sueryder.org/ Online Bereavement Community]. It provides information and resources for health and social care professionals, and it campaigns to improve palliative care and bereavement support nationally.

Sue Ryder hospices and neurological care centres are currently operated in the following areas:

• Aberdeen, Scotland: Dee View Court (neurological care centre){{cite web |url=https://www.sueryder.org/how-we-can-help/dee-view-court |title=Sue Ryder Neurological Care Centre Dee View Court |publisher=Sue Ryder |accessdate=25 November 2019 }}
• Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Leckhampton Court Hospice (palliative care centre){{cite web |url=https://www.sueryder.org/how-we-can-help/leckhampton-court-hospice |title=Leckhampton Court Hospice |publisher=Sue Ryder |accessdate=25 November 2019 }}
• Leeds, West Yorkshire: Wheatfields Hospice (palliative care centre){{cite web |url=https://www.sueryder.org/how-we-can-help/wheatfields-hospice |title=Wheatfields Hospice |publisher=Sue Ryder |accessdate=25 November 2019 }}
• Moggerhanger, Bedfordshire: St John's Hospice (palliative care centre){{cite web |url=https://www.sueryder.org/how-we-can-help/st-johns-hospice |title=St John's Hospice |publisher=Sue Ryder |accessdate=25 November 2019 }}
• South Oxfordshire: South Oxfordshire Palliative Care Hub (palliative care centre){{cite web |url=https://www.sueryder.org/how-we-can-help/south-oxfordshire-palliative-care-hub |title=South Oxfordshire Palliative Care Hub |publisher=Sue Ryder |accessdate=25 November 2019 }}
• Oxenhope, West Yorkshire: Manorlands Hospice (palliative care centre){{cite web |url=https://www.sueryder.org/how-we-can-help/manorlands-hospice |title=Manorlands Hospice |publisher=Sue Ryder |accessdate=25 November 2019 }}
• Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Thorpe Hall Hospice (palliative care centre){{cite web |url=https://www.sueryder.org/how-we-can-help/thorpe-hall-hospice |title=Thorpe Hall Hospice |publisher=Sue Ryder |accessdate=25 November 2019 }}
• Reading, Berkshire: Duchess of Kent Hospice (palliative care centre){{cite web |url=https://www.sueryder.org/how-we-can-help/duchess-of-kent-hospice |title=Duchess of Kent Hospice |publisher=Sue Ryder |accessdate=25 November 2019 }}

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Sue Ryder's income was £112.75 million during the year ending 31 March 2022, which included £37.5 million from NHS and local authority funding, and £73.7 million from fundraising campaigns and retail sales (both online and in the charity's 400 shops).{{cite web |url=https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/1052076 |title=Sue Ryder |publisher=Charity Commission |accessdate=December 8, 2023 }} The income was used for providing 525,000 hours of palliative and end-of-life care to people in the UK.{{cite web |url=https://www.sueryder.org/about-us/what-we-do/quick-facts |title=Sue Ryder |publisher=Sue Ryder |accessdate=December 8, 2023 }} In addition to full-time staff, the charity currently has more than 12,000 volunteers supporting its work across the UK. Volunteering roles cover many areas of the charity's work, including administration, catering, transport, gardening, fundraising, finance, retail, photography, events coordination, cleaning, research, befriending and bereavement support.{{cite web |url=https://www.sueryder.org/support-us/volunteer/what-type-of-volunteer-roles-do-you-offer |title=What type of volunteer roles do you offer? |publisher=Sue Ryder |accessdate=25 November 2019 }}

Sue Ryder launched its Prisoner Volunteer Programme in 2006.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/oct/28/sue-ryder-prisoner-rehabilitation-volunteer |title=Prisoners thrive on retail therapy |last=Leverton |first=Marc |work=The Guardian |date=28 October 2009 |accessdate=25 November 2019 }} It works with around 40 prisons nationwide offering work experience in 100 locations, including offices, shops and warehouses.{{cite web |url=http://www.thebromleytrust.org.uk/Indexhibit/files/suerydernov12.pdf |title=An evaluation of the Sue Ryder Prison Volunteer Programme |publisher=The Bromley Trust |date=November 2012 |accessdate=25 November 2019 }} The programme has won a number of awards, including the Education and Training award at Civil Society's Charity Awards in 2013.{{cite news |url=https://ehospice.com/uk/Default/tabid/10697/ArticleId/5271 |title=Charity Award for Sue Ryder |publisher=ehospice |date=20 June 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402125942/https://ehospice.com/uk/Default/tabid/10697/ArticleId/5271 |archivedate=2 April 2015 |accessdate=25 November 2019 }} In 2014, the charity opened a shop in Slough which offered staff roles to homeless people in partnership with the organisation Slough Homeless Our Concern.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-27518402 |title=Sue Ryder charity shop to use homeless volunteers |publisher=BBC |date=23 May 2014 |accessdate=25 November 2019 }}

In February 2013, Sue Ryder was criticised alongside other charitable organisations for taking part in the UK Government's workfare scheme, in which people living on benefits were instructed to attend unpaid work at various companies and charities, at the risk of otherwise losing their benefits.{{cite news |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/charities-must-snub-workfare-ros-1903279 |title=Enforced volunteering of workfare is against ethical nature of charities |last=Jones |first=Ros Wynne |work=Daily Mirror |date=22 May 2013 |accessdate=25 November 2019 }} After enlisting "around 1,000" volunteers as part of the scheme, Sue Ryder later promised a "phased withdrawal" due to online protests.{{cite news |url=https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/sue-ryder-leaves-unpaid-work-experience-scheme-after-online-protest.html |title=Sue Ryder leaves unpaid work experience scheme after online protest |last=Mair |first=Vibeka |publisher=Civil Society |date=25 February 2013 |accessdate=25 November 2019 }} The charity later released a statement explaining that they had chosen to withdraw in order to "protect staff from an online campaign of harassment".{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/feb/27/activists-charities-work-scheme-dwp |title=Activists are intimidating charities into quitting work scheme, says DWP |last=Malik |first=Shiv |work=The Guardian |date=27 February 2013 |accessdate=25 November 2019 }}

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• [https://www.sueryder.org/ Official website]
• [https://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1052076&SubsidiaryNumber=0 Sue Ryder, registered charity no. 1052076] at the Charity Commission for England and Wales
• [https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=39578 Sue Ryder, registered charity no. SC039578] at the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator

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