Charitable Trusts & Foundations

Thanks to the generosity of our Trust and Foundation funders, we have been able to significantly enhance the excellent end-of-life care provided for local people in our community living with a life limiting illness throughout the years.

Trusts and Foundations often choose to generously fund a specific project or a specific service for Overgate Hospice, or they can allow us to allocate grants to areas where we believe they will have the greatest impact.

The Finderman Trust

 

Kindly donated £50,000 towards our running costs following the death of the Trust’s Founder and our dear patron Sylvia Graucob.

Morrisons Foundation

 

Kindly donated £14,732 to allow us to set up a new home based bereavement service, meaning our counselling service can reach more people in need.

Sovereign Health Care Community Programme

 

Kindly donated £3100 towards a new commercial freezer and dishwasher in our kitchen, helping provide home cooked meals for our patients and their families.

Sir George Martin Trust

 

Kindly donated £2,000 towards much needed physiotherapy equipment to allow our Physiotherapist to work with our patients to gain more independence.

Tony Gartland Foundation

 

Kindly donated £5,000 towards the Hospice's core running costs.

The Todmorden War Memorial Trust

 

Kindly donated £500 towards our core running costs.

The Thomas Cook Children's Charity

 

Kindly donated £844.20 towards bereavement books and memory boxes for our social workers to use when working with children who have recently lost a close family member.
 

The Ross Smith Foundation

 

Kindly donated £2,328 for a greenhouse for our Day Hospice patients, benches for our garden and funded the craft activities for the Day Hospice patients for a year.
 

Gay and Peter Hartley Hillard Trust

 

Kindly donated £1,000 towards the Hospice's core running costs.

Masonic Charitable Foundation

 

Kindly donated £988 towards our core running costs.

KM Lumb Charitable Trust

 

Kindly donated over £12,000 over the last ten years towards the Hospice's core running costs.
 

Sinead's Cancer Care

 

Kindly donated £2,746.73 towards our core running costs.

Hebden Bridge Rotary Club

 

Kindly donated £2,000 towards the purchase of a syringe driver, bringing pain relief to our patients.

The Hedley Foundation

 

Kindly donated £1,073 towards the purchase of a syringe driver, bringing pain relief to our patients.

The D'Oyly Carte Foundation

 

Kindly donated £3,168 towards providing music therapy for patients attending our Breath of Fresh Air sessions and our Carers Group.

Hospice Aid UK

 

Kindly donated £600 towards new handheld fans for our patients who are suffering from breathlessness.

Bearders Trust

 

Kindly donated £400 to pay for one of our Day Hospice nurses to attend a Palliative Care Conference.

The Holbeck Charitable Trust

 

Kindly donated £1,000 towards a sink for the complimentary therapy rooms in our Day Hospice.

Warburtons

 

Kindly donated £250 towards our complimentary therapy service.

Caron Keating Foundation

 

Kindly donated £1000 towards our core running costs.

Yorkshire Building Society Foundation

 

Kindly donated £700 towards a new fridge, handrails for our greenhouse to make it more accessible for our patients, a cardian mobile device for our Inpatient Unit and new outdoor furniture for our Day Hospice garden.

The National Lottery Commiunity Fund

 

Supported our Virtual Day Hospice project which was launched during the pandemic. This has enhanced the quality of life for vulnerable Day Hospice patients living with life limiting illnesses in the community, through a range of engaging virtual activities and therapies and has provided personalised care in patients own homes.

Liz and Terry Bramall Foundation, Community foundation for Calderdale and Gay and Peter Harley’s Hillards Charitable Trust

 

Support from these trusts meant that we have been able to purchase vital Personal Protective Equipment for visitors to the Hospice. This has meant that patients have been able to have loved ones by their side, in their final days of life, and for that we are extremely grateful.

The Screwfix Foundation

 

Our Counselling garden pods were in desperate need of refurbishment; funding from The Screwfix foundation has meant that we have been able to renovate the Pods in our garden and put them to good use, creating a wonderful space in the garden for people to enjoy.

Mental Health Consortia - Mind

Kindly supported us with a grant to purchase 16 new iPads. Meaning our patients have had access to video calling and entertainment whilst visiting has been restricted during the pandemic.

St James Place Charitable Foundation and the National Lottery Community Fund

 

Kindly funded 10 new chairs for patients staying on our Inpatient unit. The new chairs offer much better support and comfort to people living with a life limiting illness.

We are very grateful to the many Trusts and Foundations who have supported us with unrestricted funding. This support enables us to fund new projects and contributes towards our essential core running costs which means we can continue providing free end of life care of the highest quality to people in Calderdale.

If you are a grant-making body and are interested in learning more about what we do to support our community, we would love to hear from you. Please contact our dedicated team who will be happy to discuss how we can work together please contact the Grants Team on 01422 387121, email us or schedule a visit to the Hospice