Could Your Workplace Support a Hospice This Autumn?
Imaginative family fundraising ideas children can lead, for any time of year. Read on for low-cost, fun ways for your kids to help hospices across the UK.
Fun Ways for Families to Help Hospices
Imaginative family fundraising ideas children can lead, for any time of year. Read on for low-cost, fun ways for your kids to help hospices across the UK.
Who’s Looking After the People Who Look After Everyone Else?
What makes a hospice respite stay different from other forms of short-term care? For many carers, it’s the first uninterrupted night’s sleep they have had in months, sometimes years.
What Does Your Donation Actually Buy?
This is what your donations have bought during our last appeal; real things, sitting in real hospices, being used by real people
How Do Hospices Help With Loneliness?
92.6% of palliative care professionals identify loneliness as highly prevalent among people with terminal illnesses.
Learn more about how UK hospices help with loneliness and what you can do to support them.
How Do Hospices Support Family Carers
Carers are, quite simply, remarkable. The trouble is, most of them don’t think of themselves that way. With roughly one in ten adults caring for a sick relative or friend, it’s time to recognise them properly and to talk about the hospices that help them.
Gift Aid Explained: How to Make Your Donation Go 25% Further
Learn how you can turn every £10 donation into £12.50, at no extra cost to you. The scheme is called Gift Aid and, if you’re a UK taxpayer, it’s one of the easiest ways to make your support go further. Learn all about ‘Gift Aid’ in 30 seconds!
How Eye Gaze Technology Is Changing Lives at Demelza Hospice
Eye Gaze technology is changing lives a Demelza Hospice. Learn more about how children are gaining their voices with just the movement of their eyes.
Why Young People Need Hospice Care Too
The word “hospice” tends to conjure a particular image – peaceful gardens, soft furnishings, and an older person resting after a long life. That image isn’t wrong but it isn’t the whole picture either. Young people need hospice care too.
Hospice Funding Crisis – What Parliament Is Telling Us
Most of us don’t think about hospices unless we need them and when we do need them we assume they’ll be there. Right now, that assumption is being tested in ways that should trouble every single one of us.