These programmes have provided financial support for individuals and special projects which aimed to improve the quality of care given to patients, families or carers in their hospice community.
Past programmes have included:
Millenium Awards
Our Millennium Awards scheme ran from June 1999 to June 2002. This project provided training and development opportunities for hospice volunteers and created new services for patients, families and other volunteers in hospices across the UK.
Grants for volunteers
Following the success of the Millennium Awards scheme, Help the Hospices continued its commitment to support and promote hospice volunteering. Two new volunteer grant programmes were created with the purpose of enhancing volunteers' skills and improving quality of care.
St James's Place Foundation awards
We have awarded grants to hospices to develop innovative projects to improve the care of patients with conditions other than cancer. There has been a wide range of projects with diverse aims and objectives, and different groups of target beneficiaries.
Find out about the projects funded by the St James's Place Foundation.
Carers' grants
Our four-year Care for the Carers of the Terminally Ill project started in January 2005 and we have awarded Major Grants and Seedcorn grants.
Ellerman awards
Since 2001, the John Ellerman Foundation has supported special projects in independent voluntary hospices in the UK. A major aim of this programme was to make a discernible difference to patients, families, carers, individual units and palliative care generally.
HBOS bereavement workers grants
Help the Hospices has provided major grants to hospices to develop and extend their bereavement support services.
Regional and outreach training awards
We have given awards for courses, study days and conferences run by a hospice (or a group of hospices) for specialist palliative care staff and non-hospice colleagues to raise the levels of care.
