Masonic Charitable Foundation Grants Lists

Find lists of grants issued by Masonic Charitable Foundation to hospices.

Hospice Grants for people experiencing homelessness (or are vulnerably housed) and people with learning disabilities

Organisation	Masonic Province	Project Title	Amount Awarded (£)
Cornwall Hospice Care	Cornwall	Improving access to palliative and end of life care in Cornwall: St Austell project for those vulnerably housed	29,895
Garden House Hospice	Hertfordshire	Garden House Hospice Care and Stevenage Haven - Removing barriers to accessing palliative care for people facing homelessness in North Hertfordshire and Stevenage	13,532
Hospice at Home West Cumbria	Cumberland & Westmorland	Widening Access to support adults with learning disabilities	6,957
Hospice of the Good Shepherd	Cheshire	Supporting homeless people with advanced and life limiting Illness in Cheshire West and Chester	14,160
Hospiscare Exeter	Devonshire	An end of life care plan for our local homeless community	21,225
Marie Curie, Liverpool	West Lancashire	Liverpool Palliative Care Homeless Co-ordinator	34,000
Martlets Hospice	Sussex	Palliative care education and support programme for hostels, day centres and other care providers to benefit homeless and vulnerably housed people in Brighton & Hove	20,367
Mary Stevens Hospice	Worcestershire	No Barriers Here! Talking open about end of life care	23,550
Pendleside Hospice	East Lancashire	Palliative and End-of-life care for individuals who are homeless/vulnerably housed in Pendle and Burnley	28,168
St Francis Hospice, Romford	Essex	A phased approach to facilitate rough sleepers and vulnerably housed people within the Saint Francis Hospice catchment area, to better access palliative care services	20,704
St Michael’s Hospice, Harrogate	Yorkshire - West Riding	Open doors: support, guidance and training	29,103
St Ann’s Hospice, Cheadle	Cheshire	To provide a Palliative Care Coordinator role for people with learning disabilities living in Stockport	24,108
St Clare, Hastingwood	Essex	Improving end of life care and support for people across West Essex who have a learning disability	21,332
St Gemma’s Hospice, Leeds	Yorkshire - West Riding	Widening access to palliative and end of life care for homeless and vulnerably housed people in Leeds	25,800
St Giles Hospice, Litchfield	Staffordshire	Improving palliative, end of life and bereavement care outcomes for people with learning disabilities and their carers via a new Learning Disability Support Worker role	25,355
St Leonard’s Hospice, York	Yorkshire, North & East Riding	Prioritising support for people who are homeless at end of life	30,000
St Peter’s Hospice, Bristol	Bristol	To improve the access and equality of access to St Peter’s Hospice services for people experiencing street homelessness and living in hostels in Bristol	28,700
St Wilfrid’s Hospice, Eastbourne	Sussex	Supporting people with learning disabilities to be ready for death and bereavement	27,122
Willen Hospice, Milton Keynes	Buckinghamshire	Person-Centred Palliative Care for People with Learning Disabilities in Milton Keynes	23,943
Grand total (19)			£448,021

Grants to widen access to hospice services by improving equality and diversity in hospice care

Organisation	Masonic Province	Project Title	Amount Awarded (£)
Ellenor, Gravesend	East Kent	Embedding the principles of EDI for staff, patients and volunteers at ellenor	30,000
Farleigh Hospice, Chelmsford	Essex	Enhancing End of Life and palliative care access to Care Home residents in Mid Essex	33,000
Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice, Huddersfield	Yorkshire, West Riding	Promoting awareness, understanding and breaking down barriers about hospice care within the BAME communities sitting at the heart of the area in which we operate.	25,000
Greenwich & Bexley Community Hospice	London	A collaborative project with METRO Charity to increase knowledge of and access to the Hospice for the local LGBTQ+ community	17,000
Katharine House Hospice, Banbury	Oxfordshire	Inclusion Matters: Creating a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion at Katharine House Hospice and Sobell House Hospice	31,000
North London Hospice	Middlesex	Employ an Equality, Inclusion and Diversity (EDI) Officer to instil a cultural change and produce a data-driven EDI strategy to improve access to our care	31,000
St Catherine’s Hospice, Preston	West Lancashire	Implementing Sustainable Organisational Changes to Enhance the Inclusivity of In-patient and Community Services for BAME Communities	34,000
St Christopher’s Hospice	London	Dementia Caring Pathways	25,000
St Helena’s Hospice, Colchester	Essex	Enabling Equality – Social Prescribing at End of Life for our BAME and deprived communities	31,000
St Luke’s Cheshire Hospice	Cheshire	Increasing Accessibility to Cheshire Hospices for the LGBTQ+ community	22,000
St Luke’s Hospice, Basildon	Essex	Ensuring Equity of Access for Adults with Learning Disabilities to Palliative and End of Life Care	34,000
Teesside Hospice Care	Yorkshire, N & E Ridings	Broadening Access to Teesside Hospice for Everyone	33,000
The Rowans Hospice, Purbrook	Hampshire & Isle of Wight	Creating a Digital Community of Care for all	25,000
Wakefield Hospice	Yorkshire, West Riding	Improving access to hospice care for the BAME communities in Wakefield.	30,000
Weldmar, Dorchester	Dorset	Making Weldmar Hospicecare Accessible to All.	24,000
Wigan & Leigh Hospice	West Lancashire	Creating an End of Life Pathway for Homeless and Vulnerably Housed People in Wigan Borough	25,000
Grand total (16)			£450,000

Grants for Re-imagining Day Hospice Services

Organisation	Masonic Province	Project Title	Amount Awarded (£)
Dorothy House Hospice Care	Wiltshire	The World Can be a Day Patient’s Oyster Too: Using Virtual Reality to Aid Patient Wellbeing Within the Day Hospice and at Home	34,576
East Cheshire Hospice	Cheshire	Dementia Community Engagement and Outreach Project – Dementia Nurse Specialist	35,000
Great Oaks Hospice	Gloucestershire	Delivering “Day Services” into our communities’ homes so as to reach and care for a greater number of patients and their support network through technology	7,135
Harlington Hospice	Middlesex	The Digital Wellbeing Hub: Providing Real Time Wellbeing Services and End Of Life Support to the Community of Hillingdon	32,000
Heart of Kent Hospice	East Kent	Heart of Kent Hospice Hub: Creating a flexible space for accessible therapeutic and clinical support	14,593
LOROS	Leicestershire & Rutland	Extending Specialist Day Therapy at LOROS Hospice	8,388
Oakhaven Hospice	Hampshire & Isle of Wight	Expanding Oakhaven Day Hospice to meet the needs of Progressive Neurological Disease Patients and their Carers in the New Forest, Totton and Waterside	35,000
Skanda Vale Hospice	West Wales	Effective Day Hospice Care utilising state of the art digital tools	29,400
St John’s Hospice, London	London	St John’s Hospice Day Care Unit: Multi-Sensory Therapy Room Renovation Project	35,000
St Kentigern Hospice	North Wales	Day Services Go Digital - Maximising the Reach and Support provided by our Wellbeing Hub	18,376
Ty Hafan	South Wales	Ty Hafan Community Stay & Play Hubs (Locality based family focused day care services)	34,835
Willow Burn Hospice	Durham	Take A Break with Willow Burn - Supporting Carers in County Durham	15,697
Grand total (12)			£300,000

Hospice Grants for Bereavement Care - Round 2

Organisation	Masonic Province	Project Title	Amount Awarded (£)
Bolton Hospice	East Lancashire	Supporting teenagers through loss, grief and bereavement – the creative toolkit	17,500
Cornwall Hospice Care	Cornwall	Cornwall Bereavement Friendship Groups	18,975
Dorothy House Hospice Care	Wiltshire	Creation of two self-sustaining, volunteer led “Friends in Grief” community bereavement hubs	13,613
Great Oaks Dean Forest Hospice	Gloucestershire	Cookery for bereaved men	3,960
Hospice of the Good Shepherd	Cheshire	Developing community bereavement help points and enhanced online bereavement resources	19,052
Hospice of the Valleys	Monmouthshire	Dementia: through the carer lens	16,623
Hospiscare Exeter	Devonshire	Widening access to bereavement support for families and carers in Exeter, Mid and East Devon	20,000
Mountbatten	Hampshire & Isle of Wight	Creation of bereavement help points to meet needs of lonely and isolated residents	20,000
Princess Alice Hospice	Surrey	Community bereavement support – enabling peer bereavement support	20,000
St Barnabas Lincolnshire Hospice	Lincolnshire	Coping with bereavement in Lincoln’s homeless community	19,240
St Cuthbert’s Hospice	Durham	Opening up bereavement support in County Durham	18,247
St Elizabeth Hospice, Ipswich	Suffolk	Dying to talk	12,873
St Kentigern Hospice, St Asaph	North Wales	Bereavement support drama project for young people	19,000
St Wilfrid’s Hospice, Eastbourne	Sussex	Bereavement help points plus	19,870
Treetops Hospice Care	Derbyshire	“Non-talking” group therapy for traumatically bereaved children and young people	20,000
Wakefield Hospice	West Riding – Yorkshire	Caring Companies – using hospice expertise to broaden access to bereavement care by working with and training local organisations to support their workforce during bereavement	20,840
Willow Burn Hospice	Durham	Willow Burn Stars – children and young people’s bereavement service	20,000
Grand total (17)			£299,793

Hospice Grants for Bereavement Care

Organisation	Masonic Province	Project Title	Amount Awarded (£)
Compton Hospice, Wolverhampton	Staffordshire	Creating Compassionate Communities for the Bereaved	16,665
Heart of Kent Hospice, Aylesford	East Kent	In it Together: Bereavement Support for the Carers of People with Dementia	12,658
Martlets Hospice, Hove	Sussex	Earthworks – Martlets Hospice Men’s Bereavement Allotment Project	15,782
Mary Ann Evans Hospice, Nuneaton	Warwickshire	Stepping Stones	12,723
Saint Francis Hospice, Romford	Essex	Buddies - Carers support programme pre and post bereavement	20,000
St Christopher’s Hospice, Sydenham	London	Establish Bereavement Help Points in South East London	19,782
St Mary's Hospice, Ulverston	West Lancashire	Make, Do and Mend Project	19,995
Ty Hafan, Cardiff	South Wales	Ty Hafan Bereavement Therapy Service	19,896
Willowbrook Hospice, Prescot	West Lancashire	Willowbrook Connections	19,449
Grand total (9)			£156,950