# Fundraising innovation grants offered to UK hospices

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/03/17/fundraising-innovation-grants-offered-uk-hospices/
- Published: 2007-03-17T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Help the Hospices, the national charity for the UK hospice movement, has launched
a new grants programme for hospices designed to encourage creative and innovative
income generation.
The new ‘Innovation in Income Generation Grants Programme’ is
designed to facilitate the sharing of good fundraising ideas across the hospice 
movement as a whole. All grant recipients will be required to complete a full report
on the outcome of their project, to be shared with other hospices and used perhaps
at best practice workshops and conferences.

The 2007 programme is offering £30,000, which is expected to be divided into approximately
six grants.

Examples of eligible projects include:

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· A new type of fundraising event, perhaps one aimed at a different target audience
than existing events

· Opening up a new specialist shop with different products from existing outlets
and / or aimed at a different target market

· An innovative way of increasing sales of a hospice lottery

· An innovative use of new media in income generation.

David Burland, chief operating officer at Help the Hospices, said: “The purpose 
of this programme is to stimulate some really good new ideas that all hospices can
benefit from. Most hospices have to raise several thousand pounds every day to keep
their services going, so hospice fundraisers have to be continuously inventive and
creative to keep their local communities supporting them.

“The hospice movement is unique in that it’s a national movement made up largely
of individual local charities. This kind of cross-fertilisation of original thinking
can only benefit the movement over all.”

Successful applicants will need to demonstrate the potential for income generation,
the extent of the potential for duplication/repetition of the project across the
hospice sector, and the sustainability of the project.

The deadline for applications from UK hospices for the first round of grants is 
29 June 2007.

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