Julia and Hans Rausing donate £8.7 million to 27 UK hospices under financial pressure

Julia and Hans Rausing, have recently announced grants of £8.7 million to 27 hospices across the UK to help them meet the significant increase in their day-to-day costs, brought about by inflation and high energy prices.  Hospices in particular need of support were identified by the Julia and Hans Rausing Trust, working with the charity Hospice UK. The Trust analysed data to identify hospices with less than 12 months of funds in reserve, with support focused on regions with the highest proportion of hospices in need, which included East Midlands,…

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Big Issue Invest commits £1.5 million to support lottery business that supports hospices and charities across the UK

The social arm of The Big Issue has invested £1.5 million in a lottery business that supports the hospice and wider charity sector across the UK. Big Issue Invest (BII), made the investment into St Helena Hospice in order for the hospice to grow its lottery services to allow them to generate more income to support not only their own hospice services but those of 13 other hospices and 7 charities across the UK. St Helena Hospice runs a successful in-house lottery business, which was opened up to other hospices…

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