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Closed grant programmes

Since Help the Hospices was set up, it has been offering grants to hospices and their staff, to help them improve the quality of care given to patients, families or carers in their hospice community.

We rely upon funding for these grants from other charitable trusts and foundations and depending on the organisation providing the funding, this could last for one year or be spread over several. Below is further information about the wide range of grant programmes that we have run in the past, both in the UK and overseas.

Closed UK grant programmes

Towergate innovation in income generationMember hospices of Help the Hospices were able to apply for a Towergate grant to develop creative and innovative initiatives to generate income that had not been undertaken before.
Department of Health capital grants programme 2007-2009Capital grants to cover refurbishment, conversions and new builds from the Department of Health in 2007.
Department of Health capital grant programme 2010 - 2011Open to adult hospices in England for capital projects to fund improvements to the physical environment. £40 million in total available in 2010/11 to support the implementation of the End of Life Care Strategy.
Millennium AwardsProvided training and development opportunities for hospice volunteers and created new services for patients, families and other volunteers in hospices across the UK.
Francis Winham FoundationGrants available for capital and/or equipment costs in English adult hospices that were members of Help the Hospices.
Grants for volunteersFor volunteers to undertake training and education or develop projects to enhance their skills and improve the quality of care for patients, families and carers in hospices.
Ellerman Foundation grantsBetween 2001- 2007, a wide range of projects funded, aimed at making a discernible difference to patients and their families, to individual hospices, and to the development of palliative care services.
Regional and outreach training grantsFunding to enable hospices to organise education and training courses, study days and conferences for specialist palliative care staff and non hospice colleagues

Closed international grants

Global advocacy grantsGlobal advocacy grants were available to national palliative associations in resource-poor countries to fund advocacy activities tackling barriers to hospice and palliative care. Activities were related to World Hospice and Palliative Care Day on Saturday 10 October 2009.
Wolfson international bursariesOpen to nurses, doctors and clinical officers from commonwealth resource-poor countries to support attendance of accredited palliative care education courses.
Palliative care toolkit grantsTo develop training workshops, using the palliative care toolkit, for health workers with little or no knowledge of palliative care. Healthcare organisations based in India and Sub-Saharan Africa were eligible to apply.