Our Latest Annual Report
We are proud to launch the latest Rockinghorse Annual Report, showing the support we have received and the impact we have had on our local community during the last financial year.
As a registered charity, we are required to write a trustees’ annual report each year which includes our accounts for the previous financial year along with information about our work, where our money has come from and how it was spent during the year.
Along with being required by the Charity Commission, an annual report is also great way to help demonstrate what we do, particularly to our funders and beneficiaries, and shows the impact we have had thanks to all the wonderful people that have supported us.
This year’s report, covering the financial year spanning April 2024-March 2025, is packed full of information including:
- Our impact – showing the real difference we have made to more than 191,000 children directly supported.
- Our fundraising – explaining how we raised our funds and where they were spent.
- The people we support – the difference we have made to children, families, NHS staff and our Champions.
- Our supporters – all the people within our community who took time out to support us during the year.
- The projects we fund – highlighting a range of the projects that we have been able to fund.
- Our plans – how we are going to continue to support babies, children and young people over the coming years.
Donna Holland, Chief Executive of Rockinghorse said, “This year marked the final year of our first ever three-year strategy – a journey that has given us focus, ambition, and results we can all be proud of. Together, in the past three years we have delivered hundreds of projects, funded pioneering research, launched ground-breaking new hospital services and transformed children’s hospitals and wards across Sussex. The impact has been profound: lives saved, care improved, and thousands of children and families supported in their most difficult moments.
As we look ahead, we know the work is far from over. The challenges facing children and young people are changing, and so too must we. Our new strategy ‘For Every Child’ builds on everything we have achieved so far, with even greater determination to support more children, respond faster to urgent needs, and continue shaping a future where every child in Sussex receives the very best care when they are unwell.
And it’s because of you, our incredible community of supporters that we can provide this for children and their families. You help us to provide state-of-the-art medical equipment that saves lives, toys and play resources that bring comfort, spaces that feel safe and homely inside the walls of a hospital, and pioneering research that pushes forward the boundaries of paediatric medicine. In 2025 alone we delivered 65 projects and directly supported 191,616 children and families.
Your generosity transforms lives. Because of you, we can continue
to change lives, improve lives, and save lives. We simply couldn’t do it without you. Thank you.”
Dr Oli Rahman, Chair of Rockinghorse Children’s Charity added, “As Chair of the charity, I’m immensely proud that our work supports everyone involved in a child’s care journey: from babies, children and teenagers, to their families, friends, and the dedicated NHS staff who care for them every day.”