We have teamed up with ACEVO to offer a discounted annual membership for CEOs. ACEVO offers invaluable support to help chief executives and senior leaders make the biggest possible impact.
Full (CEO) members can receive a 10% discount by using the code HOSPICEUK10 at the checkout. If you would like to ‘try before you buy’ why not book onto an upcoming new member meeting (now open to non-members) and get a taste of what membership is like.
Whether navigating challenges or aiming to amplify the impact of their organisations, ACEVO is here to champion leaders' success every step of the way. Join today and lead with confidence and purpose.
The resources aim to increase awareness and understanding of the eye donation referral process and help ensure more people have the opportunity to become donors.
Hospices with gardens in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are eligible to apply for a Community Garden grant from the National Garden Scheme.
Grants between £1,500 - £5,000 are given to fund capital costs for plants and containers, materials for flower beds, vegetable beds and hard landscaping, greenhouses and polytunnels, seating, hand tools and certain power tools, and materials for providing refreshments - among others.
Applications are open between 29 September - 30 October, with early applications advised. Find full guidance and how to apply on the National Garden Scheme website.
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England
The Children’s Commissioner for England has launched The Big Future – a national survey inviting children and young people aged 0–18 to share their experiences, concerns and hopes for the future. The findings will help shape national policy and ensure children’s voices are heard in decision making.
The survey is open to children in England until 23 October, and can be completed by children themselves or by parents and carers on their behalf.
By sharing the survey through your services, you can help ensure that the voices of children receiving hospice care – and their siblings – are included, and that future policy reflects their needs and realities. This may also be of interest to adult hospices who are supporting families through wellbeing services.
A stakeholder toolkit with ready-made resources is available to help you promote the survey across your networks.
Corin Dalby continues to campaign independently for greater support for hospices and appears likely to deliver his petition to Government sometime in the next few weeks.
While it is encouraging to see continued public attention on hospice care and funding, our position remains unchanged. We believe our strongest route to success is through our national policy and campaigning work, built on member insight, evidence and local engagement.
We also remain concerned about the reputational risks of being publicly associated with this campaign, particularly given the use of AI-generated imagery, the presentation of LinkedIn-sourced data as nationally representative, and the promotion of policy solutions that are not evidence-based.
We hope members can understand why our position on this campaign is unchanged. We still advise members to take a similar position and not be closely associated with this campaign, for example, by sharing the petition. If you receive media enquiries relating to the petition, please contact our media team for advice and support.
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Northern Ireland
News and updates for Northern Ireland will be published here.
Our evidence focused on the contribution hospices make to providing joined-up, person-centred care closer to home, supporting people and families before they reach crisis point, and helping to reduce pressure on hospitals and other parts of the health and care system.
Hospice care offers a practical lead case for the preventative, community-based approaches that the Scottish Government's public service reform agenda is seeking to achieve. We emphasised that hospices need sustainable funding and must be valued as equal partners if they are to fully contribute to the reform agenda.
We were pleased to give evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Health, Care and Sport Committee on 30 September as part of a dedicated evidence session on palliative care, alongside colleagues from Marie Curie, Children's Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS) and the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care (SPPC).
We welcomed the committee’s early focus on palliative care and highlighted the gap between Scotland’s policy ambitions for palliative care and people’s experience of accessing care on the ground.
Giving evidence on behalf of Hospice UK, Helen Malo emphasised the vital role hospices can play in meeting rising demand, tackling inequity and supporting a shift towards community-based care. We also stressed that palliative care should be considered as part of wider public service reform, and highlighted the need for a new national framework for hospice funding, to realise the sector’s full contribution.
