Masonic Charitable Foundation
Hospice UK
What is the programme?
The COVID Pandemic created unprecedented challenges for the Hospice sector across the UK. In a matter of days Hospices had to transform services and care for patients and families facing life limiting disease in the context of the fear and disruption caused by COVID-19. The sector responded magnificently with hospices remodelling services, redeploying staff and increasing capacity to support patients to remain out of hospital, whatever their condition or background.
Over the past year or so COVID has forced many Day Hospice Services to close. Hospices are now looking to re-open and start day hospice services for patients both virtually and face-to-face.
This grants programme will fund projects within hospices aimed at re-opening day care using new approaches to both virtual and safe face-to-face services. This would help to address any urgent needs a hospice might face in delivering its services in a radically changing landscape.
Grants:
Grants of up to £35,000 are available to support projects running over a period of 18 months. This allows for up to 3 months setup phase and 12 months project delivery – with a further 3 months to cover any unforeseen delays mid project.
Grants can be used to:
Make better use of technology - building on recent experiences gained during COVID-19, technological innovations offer the opportunity to make transformative shifts in patient-centred care models. However, there is not a one size fits all approach to implementation. Hospices will need to consider a range of opportunities in combination to flexibly meet their specific circumstances.
Projects could include:
- Capital costs for redeveloping a Day Room to include use of technology
- Equipment, marketing/publicity material and resources
- Staff training
- Equipment for patients
- Telephone support
Available funding
Total available funding in this grant round is £300,000. We expect to award between eight and ten grants in this round.
Eligibility criteria: Eligible organisations are full member:
- adult hospices
- children’s hospices. Based in England, Wales, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.
NB: Hospices awarded a grant in the April 2021 Masonic Charitable Foundation/Hospice UK widening access programme are not eligible to apply in this round.
What is not eligible?
Non-eligible pieces of work include:
activities such as undertaking a needs analysis or mapping exercise, we are not able to fund feasibility studies a continuation of an existing service work that has already started before April 2022 – although if you ran a clearly identified pilot phase before this date, you are not precluded from making an application to develop it further isolated pieces of equipment not related to the proposed work direct salary costs for tasks not related to the project – the aim is to release the applicant from some of their duties to undertake the proposed work hospices based in Scotland or Northern Ireland.