National Conference sponsors and exhibitors 2025

Insignis is an award-winning cash management service that gives hospiced and not-for-profit organisations access to market-leading savings rates, allowing them to deposit cash across multiple accounts to diversify risk and optimise returns. Insignis savings platform has partnered with over 50 banks and institutions enabling advisers, treasuries and finance teams to access more than 3,500 products through a single hub account. This means that charity cash balances can be distributed across multiple accounts to diversify risk and optimise returns. Founded in 2015 and authorised and regulated by the FCA for the provision of payment services, Insignis has placed over £32bn in funds to date. In 2024, Insignis paid out £195m in interest payments to clients

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PIB Insurance Brokers has been working with hospices throughout the UK for over 15 years and currently act for over 100 hospices, we’ve gained valuable understanding of the sector and appreciate the challenges each hospice may face.

Hospices need cover that protects operations and aligns with their mission of compassionate care. Our specialist insight helps identify and close gaps, stabilise costs, and ensure hospices are safeguarded against unforeseen events.

At PIB we take a holistic approach to insurance and risk management, tailored to each organisation’s needs, to protect the hospice and its vital work.

From 17 November, Towergate will be rebranding to Everywhen. This name reflects exactly what we stand for: being here for you, always and at all times.

Our hospice care specialists are able to arrange cover to suit your Hospice’s individual requirements, helping you stay focused on what matters most. If you’re looking for a partner who truly understands your world, come and say hello.

Contact us:

Email: newhospice@everywhen.co.uk

Call:  0330 123 5173

MDDUS is a mutual defence organisation founded in 1902 by and for healthcare professionals across the UK, with an expert staff of doctors, lawyers and risk advisers who are leaders in the medico-legal field.

The Care Database is a leading provider of care management software solutions for hospices service patients with life limiting illnesses.  Our comprehensive software is dedicated to simplifying hospice care management, streamlining operations, and making administration more efficient and hassle free.

Trident helps hospices across the UK improve IT systems, creating a more secure, efficient, and user-friendly environment for staff. We work closely with hospice leadership and IT teams to deliver tailored strategies, actionable roadmaps, and support solutions that reduce risk and unnecessary costs, so you have technology that supports your mission of delivering high-quality patient care.  

Accora designs and manufactures specialist beds and chairs that help care providers deliver safe, dignified, and compassionate long-term care. We work alongside healthcare professionals to create practical, clinically informed solutions that support comfort, independence, and wellbeing for people living with complex needs. Our products are trusted in hospices and care settings across the UK for their quality, durability, and positive impact on residents’ lives.

Barons Contract Furniture blends style, comfort, and durability for care and senior living environments. With British craftsmanship, sustainable materials, and thoughtful design, each piece enhances safety and wellbeing while creating warm, welcoming spaces. Our ranges combine practicality with elegance, supporting everyday life in beautiful, functional settings. 

Cazenove Charities has been managing charity investments for over 90 years, providing specialised services to a range of charities, endowments, foundations, universities, and no-for-profits.

As the largest charity investment manager in the UK, we are proud to manage £14.2 billion for over 1,800 charities* and are confident that we can help your charity, whatever your size, purpose and investment objectives (*as at June 2025) 

Central Technology is a trusted UK-based managed service provider that has been helping organisations simplify and strengthen their IT for over 20 years. With expertise spanning managed support, cloud hosting, cyber security, and business communications, we deliver tailored solutions that prioritise resilience, compliance, and long-term value. Accredited to ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 standards, we’re recognised for our rigorous security practices and commitment to quality. By acting as a genuine technology partner rather than just a service vendor, we enable businesses across sectors such as education, healthcare, and professional services to focus on growth with the confidence that their IT is in expert hands.

CQC is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and we encourage care services to improve. We monitor, inspect and regulate services and publish what we find. Where we find poor care, we will use our powers to take action. 

At Co-op Funeralcare, we’re here to help, whenever you need us. We’re experienced, professional and passionate about what we do. With over 800 funeral homes, we’re here to support communities.

If you're caring for someone who’s been given a terminal diagnosis or is nearing the end of their life and wants to put things in place before they die, we can help you help. 

JDDK Architects is a Newcastle-based architectural practice with over 35 years of experience in hospice design; to date we have worked on over 60 hospice projects. The practice has designed Hospices for Adults, Children and Adolescents. Our projects stretch from Inverness to London and into Ireland. They range in scope from entire new facilities to more modest upgrades of existing buildings and whilst all are different, our approach of Discover, Design and Deliver remains constant.

Established in 2005, KKE Architects is an award-winning practice based in Worcester, specialising in palliative care design. With over 50 hospice projects nationwide, we collaborate with charitable organisations, local authorities, and the NHS. Our socially focused portfolio has received prestigious recognition, with project values ranging from £100,000 to £10 million.

Local Hospice Lottery is the Country’s leading lottery for hospices. Hospice owned, hospice led, and with hospice care at our very heart, we ensure that our hospice partners receive MORE from every £1 play AND benefit from a low risk, low input way to generate regular and reliable budgeted income.

Marie Curie is the UK’s leading end of life charity. We're also the UK’s largest charitable funder of palliative care research. Our work deepens our understanding of what makes a good end of life, highlighting challenges and gaps in care, and improving support for everyone affected by dying, death or bereavement.

We care when there is no cure, whatever the illness. We ease peoples’ pain, protect their dignity and support the people they love – putting the patient first. Whatever the illness, we're with you to the end.

Visit our stand to find out how our research deepens our understanding of what makes a good end of life, highlights challenges and gaps in care, and improves support for everyone with an illness they’re likely to die from, and those close to them.

Neutral Home works with "not-for-profit” organisations and specifically focuses on Hospices enabling them to reduce their energy costs substantially and affordably decarbonise. Neutral Home integrates deep analysis, energy optimisation, transition to heat pumps, solar and battery storage with much better energy tariffs.

Caring for patients at life’s end presents many challenges, not least maintenance of skin integrity. OSKA understands pressure care isn’t just a clinical necessity, it’s a cornerstone of dignity & comfort at the most critical stages of life. That’s why we partner with UK Hospices to deliver advanced pressure ulcer prevention and management solutions that support compassionate, high-quality palliative & end of life care.

At Oxygen Installations, we offer a wide range of services to enhance hospice environments, including: Moss Art & Biophilic Design, Refurbishments & Fit-Outs, AV Installations and Branding & Signage to Mailing. An all-in-one service: from design to installation -  UK wide. 

Serving Hospices for over 30 years, SMI have the knowledge and expertise to implement the complete Workforce Management Solution. Staff.Care is the only ‘All in One’ software solution of its kind, providing complex Healthcare eRostering, HR Suite, Recruitment, Onboarding, Volunteers, Bank & Agency (Shift Offering), Comprehensive Reporting Suite, Expenses, Payroll Interface and LIVE Dashboard Graphical Reporting

A major UK provider of Healthcare Furniture to hospices and the wider NHS (NHS Approved supplier), our collections complement latest hospice interiors. Collections include recliner chairs, soft upholstered seating, overbed tables, lockers, tables, chairs and staff seating, helping to create comfortable, non-institutional spaces. Visit stand 4 to pick up our new Healthcare Furniture brochure. 

Vantage provides comprehensive Incident, Risk, Compliance, Feedback, and Facilities management software, tailored for the charity and healthcare sectors. Supporting over 115 hospices across the UK, our solutions improve efficiency, data accuracy, and regulatory compliance, helping charities focus on their core mission while saving staff time on administration. www.vantage-technologies.co.uk.

Enhancing patient care and safety in your hospice is our primary focus. With over 25 years of palliative care experience, we support more than 50 UK hospices with medicines management solutions, including medicines optimisation, policy development, regulatory compliance and clinical training. Designed specifically for hospice settings, our tailored support promotes safe, effective prescribing and compliance with regulations and best practice.

With over 70 years of experience, our award-winning team offers tailored legal solutions in commercial, public law, regulatory, data protection, employment, real estate, corporate, and medical malpractice. We work with NHS commissioners, health and social care providers, MedTech companies, investors, and regulators. Our charity sector specialists advise on legal, regulatory, and governance matters for health and social care charities, from large national to smaller local organisations. We provide pragmatic, commercially-focused advice, understanding each charity’s unique priorities.

National charity acting to tackle loneliness and improve connections. Advocating for a public health approach to serious illness, death, dying, loss and caregiving. We believe the healing powers of compassion and community can transform how we experience life and death. We offer training, consultancy and provide opportunities for collaboration such as peer networks.

Founded in 2014 by Hospices, HQP is a specialist care procurement organisation and a social enterprise, that provides our Member Hospices with direct and indirect savings by accessing our qualified suppliers. On your behalf HQP has negotiated exclusive access to over 30 product and service contracts that reduce time, mitigate risk and that have been sourced via our rigorous tender process.  Since 2017 HQP has saved Hospice members with over £5.2M in direct costs alone.

We believe every charity can thrive in the retail space while staying true to its mission. We support charities in optimising their retail strategy, ensuring they can do more for the communities they serve.

We launched our consultancy in response to demand to learn our successful model, which has cemented our multi-award-winning shops as "London's answer to sustainable fashion" over the past five years.