Hospice Care Home Training grant programme

Grants of up to £2,000 are available to hospices, per training course they run.

A total of £50,000 is available, so we are looking for at least 25 hospices to participate.

Funding will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. 

The amount of funds allocated will be based on the budget your hospice submits. A grant will not be increased if the final expenditure is greater than estimated or if the income is less than projected. 

This grant programme helps fund hospices to run training courses and study days for local care home staff. Courses should focus on dementia care for people approaching the end of life.

The aims of the programme are three-fold:

• encourage increased collaboration and knowledge-sharing across hospice and care home settings
• meet unmet education needs by making training as inexpensive and widely available as possible to care home staff
• have a direct impact on patient care for those with a diagnosis of dementia.

Your hospice can use the grant to fund a completely new training course, or to run repeat sessions of courses that have already taken place. You may run a series of events or a singular event.

Funding may not be used to subsidise in-house training.

To be eligible for this grant your hospice must:

• be a member of Hospice UK
• submit your application at least one month before the training course or study day takes place.

Any courses put forward to receive funding must be CPD accredited.

Your hospice is welcome to submit more than one application during the year. Hospices are eligible to receive a maximum of two grants per year.

If a training course has already been funded by this programme, hospices can apply for funding again.

Applicants are responsible for:

• assessing the need for the course
• planning, promoting and administering the education or training 
• advertising the event as being supported by Hospice UK/ Wolfson Foundation  
• conducting the education or training 
• providing, on completion, an account of expenditure
• providing, on completion, a summary of participants’ evaluations and analysis of their professional backgrounds and place of work
• ensuring grants are claimed within 12 months of their being awarded. Hospice UK reserves the right to withdraw funding on grants in excess of twelve months. 

We are grateful to the Wolfson Foundation for their support for this programme.