Some brief facts and figures about St Ann's...

• A total of £6 million each year needs to be raised through voluntary contributions, legacies, hospice lottery, fundraising and trading activities. This equates to £16,000 a day
  
  
  
• One in three people will develop some form of cancer during their lifetime.
  
  
  
• Across the country over £300 million must be raised each year to keep hospices going. This makes local charitable hospice care the largest fundraising cause in the UK.
  
  
  
• St Ann’s Hospice is one of the largest adult hospices in the UK with 59 Inpatient beds.
  
  
  
• Over 80% of every £1 of our income is spent on the costs of patient care.
  
  
  
• Cost of Services:
  
  £63 will cover the cost of one session with a Bereavement Counsellor
  
  £97 will pay for one Outpatient session
  
  £265 is the cost of looking after an Inpatient
  for one day
  
  £500 is the cost of running one of our ambulances for two months