Dying Matters Community Grants

A total of £40,000 is available for this programme.

Grants of up to £10,000 are available to cover the costs of projects using arts and culture to open up the conversation about death and dying.

These grants can only fund projects that are due to start during or after December 2025. However, projects that have had a clearly identified pilot phase before this date will be considered. 

The main aim of this programme is to reach new groups in new ways, to have an impact on wider public attitudes to death. We will only consider applications that show evidence of partnership working with local groups/community organisations who can help your hospice to reach a group that you have traditionally struggled to support.

Your project must aim to reach one of the below defined groups, who are less likely to be reached by hospice care and the Dying Matters campaign:

• racialised communities
• people experiencing homelessness
• imprisoned people
• LGBTQ+ people
• people living in remote and rural areas
• people living in poverty, deprivation and with lower socioeconomic status
• people living with learning disabilities.

Read our guidance for more detail about what projects should include and what costs can be funded.

To apply for this grant, hospices must be:

• a member of Hospice UK
• based in the UK.

You can be an adult hospice, children's hospice or provide care for all ages.

Read our full eligibility and selection criteria.

We are keen to see how our grants make a real difference in your community. We are also interested in sharing learning from the work that is funded through this programme. 

To support this, we expect grant recipients to complete activities, including:

• submitting brief progress reports after your grant has been awarded
• hosting visits by staff from Hospice UK
• sharing ideas and knowledge through a variety of media
• providing peer support to other grant recipients
• documenting your project with photos, case studies, quotes and video for Dying Matters to use on its public channels
• providing a final impact report (template will be available to read in advance).