{"id":391902,"date":"2026-04-14T17:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/391902\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:34:13","slug":"essexs-farleigh-hospice-to-cut-jobs-and-bereavement-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/391902\/","title":{"rendered":"Essex&#8217;s Farleigh Hospice to cut jobs and bereavement services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In December 2024, the government announced a \u00a3100m funding package to help hospices deliver &#8220;major upgrades and enhancements to facilities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It could not be spent on day-to-day running costs, so Farleigh used its share &#8211; worth \u00a3800,000 &#8211; to refurbish its kitchen and caf\u00e9, add new rooms to its inpatient unit and build a new website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kabia said the money &#8220;did not alleviate financial pressures&#8221;, which the charity said had been caused by a lack of NHS funding, tax and wage increases, and rising costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk\/en\/charity-search\/-\/charity-details\/284670\/accounts-and-annual-returns?_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_organisationNumber=284670\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">charity&#8217;s latest financial statements, external<\/a> for the year ending March 2025, it received \u00a38.13m from two government contracts and \u00a3283,000 from two government grants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its total income was \u00a330.25m, but its total expenditure was \u00a331.18m, marking a \u00a30.9m deficit bigger than the \u00a30.5m deficit recorded in 2023\/24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Trustees had budgeted for a deficit for the 2024\/25 financial year, as there are sufficient reserves to fund deficits in the short-term,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In December 2024, the government announced a \u00a3100m funding package to help hospices deliver &#8220;major upgrades and enhancements&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-391902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}