Communications Support

We’re keen to celebrate your successes and innovations and we love to share your stories on our channels. In general, we focus on sharing stories about innovation in hospice care, equality and inclusion, and stories that challenge the misconceptions that exist about hospices.

With more than 200 hospices in the UK who are members of Hospice UK, we sadly don’t have the capacity to share many fundraising stories, or more general stories about hospice care.

Part of Hospice UK’s role is to connect hospice professionals across the UK – and that includes non-clinical colleagues in communications and fundraising roles. 

We are particularly keen to help share knowledge, ideas and innovations in hospice communications work, and to work together to make the most of communications and media opportunities, and manage any risks the sector faces.

If there’s something big happening in your patch, and you think other hospices should know about it, please let us know.

Key contact | Charlie King

We regularly work with member hospices on content collection visits and media stories.

If you are able to host visits of this nature (especially at short notice when the national media come calling), then please let us know. We keep a ‘speed dial’ database of hospices we call when an opportunity comes up, and we are always looking to expand this.

Key contacts | Molly Evans and Natasha Goldstone

We also rely on hospices to bring some of our key campaigns to life – especially Dying Matters and Hospice Care Week. If you’re planning activities for those campaigns, or would like to get some advice, please let us know.

Key contact | Molly Evans and Chris White 

We also run a programme of conferences and events, and many of these are relevant for communications colleagues as well as clinical professionals.

As a rule we are always happy to share pictures, film and other assets with our members. If there is a piece of our content you’d like to use, please contact us.

We love it when you are able to share with us too. We don’t provide clinical services ourselves, so access to rich material to tell the story of hospice care is invaluable for us.

Key contacts | Chris White and Ruby Wroe

We develop a range of resources to support hospice communications teams such as our Crisis Communications Toolkit and our resources about data protection.