Sue Ryder Care provides end of life and long-term care for people living with conditions including; Cancer, Stroke, Brain Injury, Multiple Sclerosis, Dementia, Huntington’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease and Motor Neurone Disease.
Sue Ryder Care is a national charity providing health and social care services in local communities.
- 4 million hours of care each year
- 1.4 million home visits to people in need
- One of the largest providers of specialist palliative care in the UK
- Over 100,000 days of long-term residential care each year
- 6,000 volunteers support our work
We provide indivualised, compassionate care services to people with end of life and long-term needs. We offer this in people's own homes, in the community and in our hospices and care centres. We also support families, friends and carers.
Through innovation and research we work to improve standards in long-term and end of life care. We have recently received government recognition for improving end of life care for people with long-term conditions and our research partnership with the University of Nottingham is extending skills and knowledge across the sector. We have piloted leading hospice at home services and holistic care management programmes for people with complex physical and psychological needs.
Our work goes beyond the UK. With fifty projects across 12 countries in Europe and southern Africa, Sue Ryder Care is positioned at the centre of an international health and social care partnership.
Our health and social care services are supported by the activities of our retail, fundraising and volunteering teams.
History
Born in Yorkshire in 1923, Sue Ryder served with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. SOE was established in 1940, to promote and co-ordinate resistance activity in German occupied Europe.
Her life's mission became clear in the aftermath of the Second World War when she worked as a volunteer amongst displaced and stateless refugees on the continent of Europe. The first home opened by Sue Ryder was St Christopher's in Germany, designed as a haven for the people she met in Europe, many of whom were survivors of concentration camps.
The first home to be built by Sue Ryder was in Konstancin in Poland, followed by homes in England.
Today Sue Ryder Care still operates on the same principle of providing care where it is needed most.
Sue Ryder was married for many years to war hero and fellow charity founder the late Leonard Cheshire VC, who died in 1992.
Lady Ryder was made a life peer in 1978 and was a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1975. She also received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1957.
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