Grants for hospices to support people living in financial hardship

A total of £400,000 is available for this programme.

We expect to award grants to 10-14 hospices, with projects running over a period of 18 months. This allows for up to three months setup phase and one year project delivery – with a further three months to cover any unforeseen delays.

These grants can fund a brand new project, or build on existing programmes of work to better support people facing financial hardship or living in socio-economic deprivation.

Projects might include: 

• Assessing your hospice’s ability to provide high quality, accessible care and support.
• Identifying barriers to accessing high-quality hospice services.
• Redesigning hospice services and/or introducing evidence-based tools to improve care and support.
• Building lasting and sustainable partnerships with other services to improve or expand support.
• Upskilling hospice staff and volunteers to provide more holistic and individualised care.
• Evidencing the impact of changes made to hospice services to ascertain whether they have improved accessibility and inclusion.
• Responding to and acting upon national policy or research evidence.

Read our guidance for more detail about what projects should include and what costs can be funded.

To apply for this grant, hospices must be:

• a member of Hospice UK
• an independent charitable hospice
• based in England, Wales, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.

You can be an adult hospice, children's hospice or provide care for all ages.

Hospices taking part in our Progressive Neurological Conditions grant programme are not eligible to apply for this grant.

Read our full eligibility and selection criteria.

We expect grant recipients to attend Project Leads Days, participate in the programme evaluation and share learning from the programme. This might include:

• speaking at webinars and communities of practice
• sharing examples of innovation about your work
• including your data and outcomes in our evaluation of the programme as a whole
• submitting an abstract for a poster or presentation at our National Conference.

Hospice UK uses a Quality Improvement approach to support all the successful hospices through the life of their grant. We organise Project Lead Days where all the participating hospices can meet, develop ideas, solve problems and learn from each other.

Hospice UK staff will visit grants programmes to help evaluate progress, and can help facilitate discussions to solve any issues that might arise.