Sector news and member updates

Ahead of Hospice Care Week 2025 (6-12 October 2025), we’re asking everyone to Write to your MP, inviting MPs to attend our parliamentary event in Westminster on 15 October 2025. The event will highlight how hospices, with the right support, can help shift more care, closer to home.

This launches on 1 September 2025 and we will be promoting it across all our channels. 

Please write to your own MP and ask your colleagues to join in. If your hospice has a good relationship with your MP or MPs, you might want to write to them separately to ask them to attend the event. Contact our policy team if you would like template wording.

We'd be really grateful if hospice comms teams could support our social media posts and share on your own channels. During last year's campaign, we saw huge uplifts in people writing to their MPs when it was promoted by their local hospice. We have put together some suggested copy to help you.

The National Garden Scheme is the prestigious open gardens organisation in the UK - and according to hospices who open their gardens for them, there are a huge number of benefits for those who get involved.
 
Ranging from sustainable fundraising and volunteer recruitment, to boosting trading income, community engagement, and relationship building with new donors, they come with an unexpected benefit: a chance to spotlight your hardworking garden volunteers. It's a brilliant opportunity to show off their brilliant work to the public.
 
The sign up deadline for 2026 open gardens is 1 October. Read more from those who open their gardens, why they've become 'no-brainers', and how your hospice can get started.

Keep up-to-date with discussions and activity around assisted dying by bookmarking our information page for members.

The Public Accounts Committee has launched an inquiry into the financial sustainability of adult hospices in England. This follows the ongoing National Audit Office (NAO) investigation into the same issue. As part of this, they are seeking evidence directly from hospices about their funding context.

We've prepared a briefing with guidance for our members on making a submission, including suggested areas to cover and practical tips for submitting evidence.

No deadline has been set yet, but we strongly encourage members to submit your evidence as soon as possible.

If you have any questions or would like support with your submission, please email our Policy team.