Advance Care Planning Seeds Grants

Overview

They are inviting communities to reflect on the past difficulties arising from the pandemic and to use their creativity to show each other what matters and how we might keep that central in our lives and planning for our futures.

Advance Care Planning Seed Grants are to support creative projects which encourage people to start conversations about their future wishes, now, What is most important to us? How can those things most vital to us remain central to our lives?

The call out is designed to encourage as wide a group of people as possible to apply with a simple application process and lots of support.

Successful applicants will receive:

1) Up to £2000 Seed Grant.
2) Bespoke support to developing their initial idea by the end of March 2022
3) Peer support to enable your project to be delivered in 2022.
4) Opportunity to showcase your community and its idea.

Up to 15 awards on offer.

Examples from other seed grant programs;

Aligned with the Department’s consultation on Advance Care Planning this new initiative is informed by Irish Hospice Foundation’s Seeds programme which. supports 27 awardees reflecting an eclectic range of work, practice, medium, approach, abilities, and age groups. Awardees created books, places to talk, performance and music. They included acute hospitals, residential care homes, nursing homes, secondary schools, community groups, migrating populations and:

St Louis School(external link opens in a new window / tab) leading a multi-discipline art and musical project enabling the school community to come to terms with their collective pandemic experience, with an exhibition of artwork and a series of concerts.

Glass Maker Michelle Collins(external link opens in a new window / tab) invited her community to make Christmas tree decorations as memorials to loved ones.

‘Say It Feel It’(external link opens in a new window / tab) podcast was created by Chris Hayes. He wanted to give voice to those grieving and dying who could not have loved ones close.

Shoyna O’Gorman and the ladies of Newport Women’s Shed are creating a patchwork quilt of loss(external link opens in a new window / tab).