Environmental Sustainability Award

Has your hospice run a project this year that has reduced your environmental impact? Has an initiative embedded sustainable practice, while maintaining or improving quality, safety, and value for money? And can this project be replicated by other hospices?

The Environmental Sustainability Award is new to the Hospice UK Awards for 2026, and celebrates sustainability at Hospice UK member organisations. 

Perhaps your organisation has created a green plan, and has delivered some great results on reducing its energy usage, waste, water or its overall carbon footprint? Or you have introduced changes to clinical practice such as deprescribing, reuse of medicines, or using less single-use equipment, which has reduced your environmental impact?

Enter the award today, and celebrate an innovative project which has made your hospice greener this year.

Please consider the following information when making your nomination:

Tell us more about the project: why did you develop it, and how was it delivered? 

•    What was the improvement made beyond 'business as usual' What change, improvement or new innovative approach did the project undertake?

•    How well did you engage other people? This could be different teams, leadership, volunteers, community.

•    If a particular technology was used, was there a reason for choosing this instead of something else?

Please note you cannot make nominations for individuals or hospices as a whole for this award.

What was the impact of this project? 

•    Who benefitted?

•    What was the measurable benefit - how significant was the environmental impact of the project? Were other benefits realised? (e.g. cost savings, improved service delivery).  

•    How will the project and its environmental benefits be sustained/scaled?

How replicable is the project? Could the approach be applied by other parts of the organisation or other hospices?

Before making your nomination, please read our submission criteria and general guidance. 

To enter the Environmental Sustainability Award, complete our short form.

The deadline for nominations is 17:00 on Monday 7 September 2026.  

All of our award winners will be announced at our National Conference in Liverpool on 16 - 18 November 2026.