St Luke's Hospice provides specialist palliative and end of life care to the residents of the North West London Boroughs of Harrow and Brent. Care is provided through our In Patient Unit, Community services, Hospice at Home, PALL24 Helpline, wellbeing services and bereavement support. Everything we do focuses on what matters most to the individual, helping people live as fully and comfortably as possible whilst ensuring dignity, comfort and choice.

Why we need support from My Giving Circle

The need for hospice care continues to increase as people live longer with more complex health conditions, often requiring specialist support over extended periods of time. Patients at the end of their lives are often referred to St Luke’s with multiple symptoms that require intensive pain and symptom management, while families and carers face growing pressures caring for their loved ones. Without timely access to specialist palliative care, many patients risk avoidable hospital admissions, poorly managed symptoms, heightened anxiety and lack of choice about their preferred place of care. Families are also often overwhelmed without the emotional and practical support needed in their demanding role as unpaid carers. During 2025/6 St Luke's supported 2,164 patients and carers.

Meeting this level of need requires significant and increasing resources. In 2026, it will cost more than £8.5 million to operate and deliver our services. Whilst we work closely with our NHS partners and receive approximately 30% of our funding through statutory sources, the remaining 70% must be raised through voluntary income.

Support from Charitable Trusts and Foundation is critical to our work. It ensures that local people continue to receive expert palliative and end of life care when they need it most, and that families are supported through some of the most difficult experiences they will ever face.

Beneficiaries:  St Luke’s supports people living with advanced cancer, neurological conditions e.g. Motor Neurone Disease, heart failure, respiratory disease and other progressive illnesses requiring specialist palliative care. Many of the people we support have complex physical, emotional, psychological and social needs that require a multidisciplinary approach. We also support family members, carers and loved ones throughout a patient's illness and into bereavement. We serve one of the most culturally diverse populations in London and are committed to ensuring equitable access to high-quality palliative and end of life care regardless of diagnosis, ethnicity, faith or circumstance.

Funding ensures that people living with life limiting illnesses receive expert care, comfort and dignity at the end of life whilst helping families and carers feel supported through some of the most difficult times they will ever face.