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Find lists of grants issued by St. James's Place Charitable Foundation to hospices since 2016.

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Project grants to support Dying at Home with Dignity

 

Hospice  Region Project Title

Grant Amount (£)

Barnsley Hospice Barnsley 72hr discharge community outreach nurse

39,008

City Hospice Cardiff SWIFT: Enabling people to remain at home in moments of crisis through a rapid response hospice paramedic service

37,071

Foyle Hospice Derry Seven Day Community Specialist Palliative Care in the Southern Sector of the Western Health and Social Care Trust

40,000

Harlington Hospice Association Harlington Coach to care, coach to connect. Enhancing the knowledge, confidence and courage of family carers living with deprivation.

38,500

Kirkwood Hospice Huddersfiled Community Development & Engagement Care Co-ordinator for Batley & Spen. Helping the underserved South Asian Community access care for their loved ones at home.

40,000

Mountbatten Hampshire Hospice Southampton Assessing impact of employing an Occupational Therapist embedded in multidisciplinary Community Team to avoid Hospital admissions and optimise death at home

39,924

Sobell House Hospice  Headington Improving early access to palliative care for the homeless population in Oxfordshire through integration with the homeless health and social services

39,255

St Elizabeth Hospice Ipswich Expansion of in-person, specialist nursing provision for patients wishing to die at home with dignity, in Great Yarmouth and Waveney 

38,516

St Gemma's Hospice Leeds Improving Psychological and Emotional Wellbeing for Community Specialist Palliative Patients

39,334

St Leonard's Hospice York Joined up Education & Care York - Enabling system wide responsive, coordinated care for individuals living with frailty who wish to die in their own home.

40,000

St Luke's Hospice Basildon Increased Outreach for St. Luke’s Hospice Carers Support Service

40,000

St Richard's Hospice Worcester Introduction of a Psychological Care Facilitator (PCF) to the Hospice at Home service, to assess and support patients and informal carers through their psychological distress.

35,837

The Norfolk Hospice, Tapping House King's Lynn Enhanced Hospice at Home

40,000

Willowbrook Hospice Prescot District Nurse Support Service Collaboration Project

40,000

14 Projects Funded

547,445

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2022: Supporting the provision of palliative and end of life care to people living in Rural and Remote Communities

Organisation Region Project Title Amount Awarded (£)
Highland Hospice Inverness Supporting remote communities to provide people living with life-limiting illness or age-related frailty the care they deserve when they need it most. 40,000
Lewis-Manning Hospice Care Poole Lewis-Manning Hospice Care at Home from palliative diagnosis to end of life. 40,000
Overgate Hospice Elland Overgate at Home 40,000
Pilgrims Hospices East Kent Connecting with our local rural community beyond the Hospice walls. 32,822
Rennie Grove Hospice Care St Albans To establish Community Day Service Hubs to care for patients and families living with life-limiting illness in rural and remote communities in South Buckinghamshire. 40,000
St Barnabas Hospice Lincoln Reaching communities in an under represented rural sector of Lincolnshire, offering end of life palliative counselling and bereavement care in prisons. 39,704
St Clare Hospice Care Hastingwood Rural Community Hospice Hub – North Uttlesford, Essex 38,268
St David’s Foundation Hospice Care Malpas Increased provision of Hospice at Home services in Powys 40,000
St Luke’s Hospice Cheshire Single Point of Contact Service 18,949
St Wilfrid’s Hospice Eastbourne Help us provide vital personal care to patients in the rural north of St Wilfrid’s Hospice's catchment area 39,257
Teesside Hospice Care Middlesbrough Community Outreach 40,000
The Ayrshire Hospice Ayr Delivering a Complementary Therapy at Home service for end-of-life patients living in rural and remote communities across Ayrshire and Arran 40,000
Tynedale Hospice at Home Hexham Tynedale Hospice at Home Rural Psychotherapeutic Service - holistic care for terminally ill patients and their families. 40,000
Woking & Sam Beare Hospice Woking Out-reach Wellbeing Project 11,000
Grand total (14)     £500,000

 

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2019: Breathe Easy – Lung Health Programme

Organisation Region Project Title Amount Awarded (£)
Dorothy House Hospice Bradford-on-Avon Palliative Progressive Lung Disease Clinic 29,257
Dove House Hospice Hull Sing to Breathe 17,513
Great Oaks, Dean Forest Hospice Coleford "Fatigue and Breathlessness Group" 7,787
Halton Haven Hospice Runcorn Extend and enhance our current breathlessness management Programme 28,500
Katharine House Hospice Banbury Breathe Easy: increasing patient and carer confidence in managing breathlessness 16,516
Kirkwood Hospice Huddersfield Breathe Better 19,000
Lindsey Lodge Hospice Scunthorpe B.E.E.P - The 'Breathe Easy Enablement Programme' for patients and their families 39,520
LOROS Leicester Help with Breathlessness at Home 14,000
Mary Stevens Hospice Stourbridge Fatigue, Anxiety and Breathlessness Groups 14,853
Nottinghamshire Hospice Nottingham Breathe Easy with Nottinghamshire Hospice 20,307
Rowcroft Hospice Torquay Development of a breathlessness, fatigue and anxiety self-management 4-week programme 21,795
Saint Michael's Hospice Harrogate Breathlessness Crisis Response Service 39,870
St Gemma's Hospice Leeds St Gemma’s Breathlessness Support Package 39,823
St Helena Hospice Colchester Improving outcomes for patients with respiratory disease 28,595
St John's Hospice Lancaster Managing Breathlessness in Prisons 9,773
St Oswald's Hospice Newcastle upon Tyne Equity of choice for patients with a need for Long Term Ventilation (LTV) 32,391
St Wilfrid's Hospice Chichester St Wilfrid's Hospice: Full Sails Ahead 35,700
Strathcarron Hospice Denny, Scotland Living Well with an Advanced Lung Condition 36,797
The Rowans Hospice Waterlooville ‘A breath of fresh air’: transforming the management of breathlessness in Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 30,824
Grand total (19)     £482,821
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2018: Supporting Family Carers Programme

Organisation Location Project Title Amount Awarded (£)
Ardgowan Hospice Scotland Kith and Kin: Supporting Kinship Carers of bereaved children and young people in Inverclyde 32,770
Arthur Rank Hospice Cambridgeshire Hospice at Home day time care in City, South and East Cambridgeshire 40,000
Ashgate Hospicecare Chesterfield Ashgate Hospicecare caring with our community 40,000
ellenor Gravesend Supporting family carers – the hidden heroes of the home 24,540
Greenwich & Bexley Community Hospice London Reaching out to young carers programme 22,354
Hospiscare Exeter Improving support for LGBT+ carers at end of life 30,000
Longfield Minchinhampton The development, promotion and delivery of a new programme of accessible, practical workshops designed to reach and support more hidden adult family carers of people with a life limiting illness 33,460
North London Hospice London Kinship Connection 40,000
Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Farnham Carer champion to embed an integrated approach to carer assessment within a hospice setting 21,989
Prospect Hospice Swindon Who cares? 11,964
St Francis Hospice Romford The Men’s Den - for men who care 30,600
St Barnabas Hospices Worthing Implementing the use of CSNAT approach at St Barnabas House, with a particular focus on experiences of male carers 18,208
St Christopher’s Hospice London Building a network of support for carers and families of people at the end of life care without recourse to public funds 40,000
St Joseph’s Hospice London St Joseph’s carers’ service 35,000
St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth Enabling choice and compassion in rural areas: using compassionate networks to enable informal carers to care for people at home at the end of life 40,000
St Wilfrid’s Hospice Eastbourne Co-designing support for male carers in the community 39,096
Grand total (15)     £499,981
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2017: Heart Failure Care Programme

Organisation Location Project Title Amount Awarded (£)
Compton Hospice Wolverhampton Caring Hearts, support for Cardiac Patients 29,967
Douglas Macmillan Hospice Stoke-on-Trent Living well with heart failure programme 19,500
Earl Mountbatten Hospice Isle of Wight The Heartbeat Project – developing and sustaining a partnership project between Earl Mountbatten Hospice and people living with heart failure. 30,000
Garden House Hospice Letchworth Garden City Bridging the Gap – Heart Failure and Palliative Care in North and East Hertfordshire 12,209
Greenwich and Bexley Community Hospice London Expanding end of life care for those with heart failure located both in the hospital and the community of Greenwich and Bexley - through expert support, training and partnership working 34,000
Hospiscare Exeter Heart2Heart 32,000
Longfield Minchinhampton Living well and planning for the future, a rehabilitative holistic approach to supporting people with heart failure 37,500
LOROS Hospice Leicester LOROS at the 'heart' of the community 29,954
Nightingale House Hospice Wrexham Inside /out - Integrating Heart Failure Services within Hospice Care at Nightingale House 40,000
Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice Glasgow Heart Failure Palliative Care Clinical Education Partnership Programme 19,000
Rowcroft Hospice Torquay Developing a sustainable model of care for patients with end-stage heart failure to support equity of access to hospice and supportive care services. 36,759
Sobell House Hospice Oxford Learning to live well with heart failure 39,994
St Barnabas Hospices Worthing St Barnabas House Advanced Heart Failure Registered Nurse 28,095
St Catherine's Hospice Preston Creating a collaborative approach to the care of people with end stage heart failure in Central Lancashire 39,765
St Helena Hospice Colchester St Helena Hospice Heart Failure Palliative Care Project 30,000
St Luke's Hospice Basildon Management of people with heart failure in a hospice setting - a shared care strategy 35,000
Teesside Hospice Middlesbrough Be in Charge of Your Heart Failure 8,495
Grand total (17)     £502,238
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2016: Rehabilitation Programme

Organisation Location Project Title Amount Awarded (£)
Dove House Hospice Hull The Dove House Hospice Rehabilitation for Wellbeing Project 36,228
Earl Mountbatten Hospice Isle of Wight Enabling not disabling – shifting the culture across Earl Mountbatten Hospice (EMH) to blend compassion and care with enablement, rehabilitation and self management. 35,000
Hospice of St Francis Berkhamsted Developing and evaluating palliative rehabilitation in an IPU setting – measuring the benefits 40,000
Hospiscare Exeter Creating a culture of rehabilitation, goals setting and self-management throughout our patient services 35,000
Kirkwood Hospice Huddersfield Enabling Quality of Life – EQOLS project 33,785
LOROS Leicester EVOLVE – Engaging Volunteers and other Organisations in Leading Versatile Enablement 30,000
Northern Ireland Hospice Belfast Changing perceptions and perspectives: developing rehabilitative palliative care with the introduction of a rehabilitation support assistant. 38,500
Phyllis Tuckwell Farnham Social and Therapeutic Horticulture (STH) scheme expansion 35,040
Rowans Hospice Portsmouth 'Keeping active, living better for longer': implementing a rehabilitative activity programme for people with a life-limiting illness 36,900
St Catherine's Hospice Preston St. Catherine's: Whose Choice is it Anyway? 35,000
St Christopher's Hospice London “Living well at home” - home rehabilitation using volunteers to help people improve their lives. 40,000
St Gemma's Hospice Leeds Living Well @ St. Gemma’s 39,147
St Margaret of Scotland Glasgow The Rehabilitative Palliative Care Project 30,000
St Richard's Hospice Worcester Caring for Life: supporting you to live well 35,000
Willen Hospice Milton Keynes Willen Hospice Rehabilitation Programme 33,250
Willowbrook Hospice Merseyside Willowbrook Outreach 37,150
Grand total (16)     £570,000