Hospice UK: Dying Matters Community Grants Programme
Overview
The Dying Matters Community Grants Programme funds new and creative ways to spark those important conversations in communities across the UK. The grant programme focusses on working with people who we know are least likely to have already had access to existing models of support.
This year the grant programme is only open to applications from hospices.
Objectives
This year, the grants programme will directly support a portfolio of arts and culture projects which work to open up conversations about dying, death and grief in new and creative ways at a grassroots level. In doing this they hope to support hospices to build new partnerships, particularly with arts and cultural organisations.
In order to reach new and diverse audiences, grant applications will need to:
Demonstrate that they reach defined groups who are less likely to be reached by hospice care and the Dying Matters campaign, specifically:
- Ethnic minorities
- People experiencing homelessness
- Imprisoned people
- LGBT+ people
- People living in remote and rural areas
- People living in poverty, deprivation and with lower socioeconomic status
- People living with learning disabilities
Demonstrate how the proposed project will approach the subject of death in an innovative and culturally relevant way through arts and culture.
This year the grant programme is only open to applications from hospices. However, the principal aim of this programme is to reach new groups in new ways with the expectation that this will impact on wider public attitudes to death. As such, they will only consider applications that show evidence of partnership working with local groups/community organisations who can help the hospice to reach one of the groups above who the hospice has traditionally struggled to support.
Grants
Grants are available to cover the costs of projects using arts and culture that focus on opening up the conversation about death and dying.
Project grants between £5,000 - £8,000
Examples of what the grant funding can be used to cover:
- Artist fees
- Exhibition / Installation costs
- Materials
- Facilitator costs
- Translation & Marketing
- Refreshments
- Craft materials
- Sound and Light
- Venue Hire
The budget for the programme in this round is £40,000.
Eligibility criteria
In this round the lead applicant must be a hospice based in the UK and a member of Hospice UK, this includes:
- adult hospices
- children’s hospices.
Please note: this programme is open to hospices, but they expect applications to be submitted in partnership with other local groups/community organisations. Evidence of this partnership will need to be included in your application, with details of how the community partner will help you to reach your target audience.
Your project should work in partnership with other local partners / community organisations. Applicants will need to submit signed letters of support from any significant partner organisations that you propose to work with.
Applicant Notes
Applications will be assessed against set criteria, including evidence that the proposed project will:
- Demonstrate user involvement/partnership/co-production in the development of the project
- Address the subject of dying, death and bereavement in an innovative and culturally relevant way through arts and culture
- Directly reach communities who we know are less likely to be reached by hospice care and the Dying Matters campaign, specifically:
- Ethnic minorities
- People experiencing homelessness
- Imprisoned people
- LGBT+ people
- People living in remote and rural areas
- People living in poverty, deprivation and with lower socioeconomic status
- People living with learning disabilities
Your project should work in partnership with other local partners / community organisations. Applicants will need to submit signed letters of support from any significant partner organisations that you propose to work with.