IHF Seed Grants

 

Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) offer Seed Grants to communities /

individuals wishing to creatively process or memorialise loss. In order to

allow people to adapt to Covid-19 regulations, the deadline for this year’s

applications has been extended to Friday 12th November 2021 at 5.00pm.

IHF offer up to 26 Seed Grants to support communities and individuals

across the country with self-directed creative explorations of dying, death,

grief, bereavement, and loss. Grants are a maximum of €1,000 each.

IHF Seed Grant Programme 2021-2022

Supported by the Creative Ireland programme, IHF sets out to inspire and

support the work of groups, organisations, and individuals who wish to

mark in some tangible way their response to the universal realities of dying,

death, and bereavement, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Seed Grants support groups, organisations, and individuals exploring

creative ways to do this. They might use the grant to help start new

local art projects, or support existing projects to gain momentum - this may

involve artists, crafts people, or digital coders. Alternatively, it may be a

group or an individual who has a good idea. Priority will be given to creative

initiatives that take innovative approaches to reflection and remembrance.

During the pandemic, and with the support of the Creative Ireland

Programme, IHF began an Arts and Creative Engagement initiative. With all

citizens affected by loss, normal patterns of grieving disrupted and care

staff fraught, the programme offered a way for people to make meaning in

a difficult time. Watch a short film of projects supported previously here.

Application Process

Full details and a digital application form can be found on the IHF

website. Alternatively, you can download and print an application form via

the IHF web site and post it to: Elizabeth Hutcheson, Seed Grants, Irish

Hospice Foundation, 32 Nassau Street, Dublin 2.

Key Dates

• Thursday October 28th at noon: Online application briefing and

clinic (including Q&A). Zoom link on website. No need to register.

• Friday November 12th at 5pm: Extended closing date for all

applications.

• Tuesday November 23rd: Successful awardees announced.

All applicants will be notified this week.

• Developed to April 30th 2022: Successful projects must be

completed by this date.

About Irish Hospice Foundation

IHF are the national agency focused on death, dying, grief, and loss. They

work with a vision of Ireland where “every death matters” delivering

education, training, and awareness programmes alongside systemic and

social change strategies and policy campaigns. Their ambition is to reduce

the impact of carelessness where it leads to suffering.

Over 35 years IHF has become embedded across the delivery of care in

Ireland. IHF works with multiple HSE Departments, the NGO

sector, and community sector. IHF’s many Friendly Hospitals with Ireland’s

acute hospital service, Compassionate End of Life with the residential care

sector, Nurses for Night-Care delivering care in the community directly to

families, and the Bereavement Network aligning the voluntary

sectors support.