The Hospice UK's Dying Matters Community Grants Programme, supported by Dignity Funerals, offers grants to UK hospices for innovative and creative arts and culture projects, events and activities that focus on opening up conversations about dying, death and grieving with communities across the UK who are traditionally less likely to be reached by hospice care and the Dying Matters campaign.
This year's funding aims to support hospices to build new partnerships, particularly with arts and cultural organisations to reach new and diverse audiences.
Applications should be made by hospices in partnership with local groups/community organisations who can help the hospice to reach one of the following groups who the hospice has traditionally struggled to support:
- 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.
Proposed projects should approach the subject of death in an innovate and culturally relevant way through arts and culture.
There is a total budget of £40,000 with project grants of between £5,000 and £10,000 (an increase of £2,000 from the previous round).
The grants can help cover project costs, including, for example:
- Artist fees
- Exhibition / Installation costs
- Materials
- Facilitator costs
- Translation & Marketing
- Refreshments
- Craft materials
- Sound and Light
- Venue Hire
The lead applicant must be a hospice based in the UK and a member of Hospice UK. This includes adult hospices and children's hospices.
The deadline for applications is 5 December 2025 (17:00) for decisions in mid February 2026.
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