Hallmark Foundation is delighted to fund a pioneering UK-wide research project on the experiences of living in residential care, from the perspectives of older people, their families and carers. The project is led by a research team from City, University of London and Ulster University with My Home Life England.
The fourth annual Care Sector Fundraising Ball was held on Saturday 30 September 2023. Organised by Championing Social Care, the event was supported by Hallmark Foundation as founding partner of the Ball since its inception in 2018.
Hallmark Foundation has published its first impact report showing how its grants and work are promoting better care and healthier longer lives.
New research on social care and older people has resulted in a toolkit designed by The Open University aimed at transforming the well-being of older people and staff in the care sector.
Across the world, because of demographic change, people are living longer, but not necessarily better lives. As countries across the world grapple with the impacts of ageing societies, the International Longevity…
Thousands of young people across the country joined Who Cares?, the first ever national care careers conference for students in schools and colleges, organised by Hallmark Foundation and Working Options in Education on 7 March.
Hallmark Foundation has a lot planned for 2023 on ageing well and improving care.
Hallmark Foundation has funded the charity Hourglass to research and publish how safe the four nations of the UK are for older people to live and age well in.
Hallmark Foundation is hosting ‘Who Cares?’, a free national conference for school and college students on the variety of jobs and opportunities working in care.
The third annual Care Sector Fundraising Ball was back with a bang on 24 September, raising £401,942 for the Alzheimer’s Society and the Care Workers’ Charity – more than double the proceeds from the last Ball.
Over the coming year, the International Longevity Centre UK (ILC) will create the Healthy Ageing and Prevention Index, which will track, for the first time, how healthily countries across the G20 are living and ageing, and the impact on the economy and environment.
Chair of Care England and the Hallmark Foundation, Avnish Goyal, has received a CBE for his services to social care and philanthropy in her Majesty’s birthday honour’s list.
Researchers in the Open University School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care have received a grant from the Hallmark Foundation, a charity that invests in the future of care, to work together to further explore the concept of ‘relational care’ and how it can successfully be delivered in UK adult care settings with a focus on older adults.
#SocialCareFuture has been awarded a grant by Hallmark Foundation to develop and seek investment in plans for a long-range campaign to bring about a marked, measurable improvement in the wellbeing of people with cause to draw on support to live their lives.
Children will be begging their parents to visit older relatives this autumn thanks to a pioneering partnership between Hallmark Care Homes Foundation and London Play. The play charity will be unveiling what is hoped to be the first of many ‘Play Gardens’ at multi-award-winning care provider, Hallmark’s newest care home Midford Manor, when it opens in Bath later this year.
The Hallmark Foundation has partnered with Circl to join their unique leadership development programme. The Circl programme teaches senior managers inclusive leadership skills and promotes social mobility at the same time. Course participants are given coaching skills training alongside young adults from underrepresented backgrounds.
Hallmark Foundation has formed a partnership with Hourglass, the UK’s only charity focused on tackling the abuse and neglect of older people, to promote safer ageing, drive greater awareness of this form of abuse and examine ways to reduce its impact on older people and the people who care for them.
Working Options in Education, the national employability and life skills charity, has launched a campaign funded by the Hallmark Foundation to inspire 14-19 year olds in Essex and East London to consider a career in social care.
Six key priorities or ‘building blocks’ for better care so everyone can age well are set out in a new paper, ‘Care 2030’, published by the independent charity, Hallmark Foundation.
Hallmark Foundation is making a grant of £78,000 over three years to the Care Workers Charity to help fund its work supporting the mental health of care workers. The grant provides core costs for running and promoting the service to encourage more care workers to access it as we recover from Covid.
