Linder Foundation Hospice Grants 2022 - End of Life Care in Prisons

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Hospice UK’s report, Dying Behind Bars, is the result of in-depth analysis of the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman’s Fatal Incident reports (reports of investigations into deaths in prisons in England) as well as close engagement with hospice services and other health and social care providers who support people in prison at the end of life.

This report is England-focused but we want to improve end of life care in prisons across the UK so this programme welcomes submissions from all UK hospices. Among the challenges this report identified were the inappropriate use of restraints, delayed or absent consideration of compassionate release, and care that is inequivalent to that received in the community.

Information and criteria

What is the programme?

The Linder Foundation grant programme aims to support projects that tackle two of the recommendations in the Dying Behind Bars report:

  • Recommendation 4: The provision of bereavement support within prisons should be established at a national level and hospice services should explore the possibility of supporting or providing this care. 
  • Recommendation 6: National organisations and local services should commit to dispelling myths and misconceptions. It is vital that there is a better shared understanding of the support that is available from hospice services, and the unique needs that imprisoned people will have at the end of life

Grants

Grants of up to £15,000 are available to support projects running over a period of 12 months.

Total available funding in this grant round is £75,000. We expect to award between five and seven grants in this round.

Deadline

The deadline for receipt of applications and all additional information is 17:00 on Wednesday, 1 February 2023.  Applicants will be informed whether or not they have been successful mid-March.

Eligibility

Eligible organisations are adult hospices that are members of Hospice UK and based in the UK, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.

The proposed work

Examples of work that could be funded include:

  • Outreach to local communities and training for hospice staff to tackle myths
  • Developing and testing new approaches, such as training programmes focused on the needs of people at end of life for clinical and non-clinical prison staff
  • Funding a new post to coordinate engagement with and explore ways to support and collaborate with local prisons and specialist organisations supporting prison health and care services.
  • Rolling out of practice models already tested in some hospices, such as on-demand end of life care advice to prisons, delivering direct clinical care and bereavement support in prison and providing training to prison staff.

Timetable

An outline timetable for the programme is given below. 

  • 1 February 2023 - Deadline for submission of applications 17:00
  • End-February - Grants Committee meet to allocate funding
  • Mid-March - all applicants to be notified of decisions
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How to apply

Please select the below Apply Now button and select Start an Application.

For more details on this programme, please read:

- Application guidance and criteria

- Outline of application questions  Use this to help you draft your answers in Word before adding them to the online form. 

- How to apply online - the process to submit your application

Only one application per grant round will be considered from each hospice.

If you have any problems with the online form, or if you have any other queries about this grant programme, please contact the Grants Team at Hospice UK.

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Acknowledgement

This grant programme has been made possible by the Linder Foundation. 

Grant holders are required to acknowledge the Linder Foundation and Hospice UK in any information that is circulated about the project. This includes e.g. conference presentations, reports, publications and articles that arise from the work.

The Linder Foundation would like to emphasise that, due of the availability of this funding programme, they will not consider any direct applications from hospices or hospice led projects based in the UK.