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Eligibility criteria

Find out what is and what is not eligible and check that your proposed project fit within the criteria of the programme.

This information is also available as a PDF.

Eligible organisations

Eligible organisations are:

adult hospices that are full members of Help the Hospices
based in the UK.

Eligible projects

The Rank Foundation likes to support projects where they are the major or sole funder and are not looking to contribute generally to work that forms part of a much larger project.

Any development to an existing service should be a new and discrete project with a clear purpose and outcomes.

If salary costs are requested, then it should be demonstrated how the post will be supported beyond the end of the grant period.

All projects must:

be related to either setting up, or making a new development to an existing advice line to provide support and reassurance to patients being cared for at home, as well as their carers
show a direct benefit to older people, who prefer to be cared for at home.

‘Home’ in this context is taken to be: the location in which the person normally resides. For many this would be their own home; for some older people it might be the care home or other institution in which they have lived prior to becoming ill.

Project budget items could include:

capital items to support a telephone helpline, such as equipment or promotional literature
revenue costs such as training, line rentals, salary costs specific to the delivery of the proposed work or other helpline related running costs; this should not be more than 50% of the total grant requested.

We encourage applicants to be innovative in their approach and a collaborative application from more than one hospice could be considered.

What is not eligible?

Examples of projects that are not eligible could include:

general refurbishment of the hospice
routine maintenance that has no noticeable effect on the care environment
requests for isolated pieces of equipment not related to advice line projects
work that has started before 1 December 2011.

Next steps

If your proposed work fits the eligibility criteria above, then we also encourage you to look at the criteria that your application will be assessed against, which will help you to complete a stronger application.