# Marie Curie announces £500,000 research fund for end of life care

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2026/05/20/marie-curie-announces-500000-research-fund-for-end-of-life-care/
- Published: 2026-05-20T08:06:41+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**End of life charity Marie Curie has created a research grants scheme that offers
a total of £500,000 for ‘care close to home’.**

The funding is designed to support research into improving palliative and end of
life care in the community, including out-of-hours provision. It has been launched
when national health policy is increasingly focused on moving care out of hospital
and into the community, and to help more people to receive end of life care at home.

The ‘_Care close to home, in and out of hours’_ research grants scheme will fund
projects of **up to £150,000**. 

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The fund has been established in response to to gaps in evidence and priority research
questions identified by patients, carers and health and social care professionals
through the Palliative and End of Life Care Priority Setting Partnership

**Dr Sabine Best**, Associate Director, Research Management and Impact at Marie 
Curie, said: 

> “This funding comes at a critical time. More people are now dying in the community
> than ever before, with 28% of deaths in England and Wales  occurring at home. 
> However, access to timely, coordinated care outside of hospital settings, particularly
> out of hours, remains inconsistent.” 

Marie Curie is the largest charity funder of palliative and end of life care research
in the UK. It supports people with any illness they are likely to die from including
Alzheimer’s (and other forms of dementia), heart, liver, kidney and lung disease,
motor neurone disease, Parkinson’s, and advanced cancer

[Expressions of interest via email](http://mariecurie.org.uk/research-and-policy/research/calls-for-research)
will open from 2 June 2026 until 5pm on 17 July 2026.