Together For Hospice, The National Hospice Movement represents 24 hospices nationwide and is introducing Your Finest Hour for Hospice for the first time in April 2025 to support local hospices to raise funds and support patients in our care.
We’re asking employers to bring the whole office together for just one wonderful hour to raise funds to support patients in your local hospice this April.
The concept is simple, employers are asked to give one hour of time to employees, on a date of your choosing throughout the month of April 2025. In exchange, employees are asked to donate an hour of their salary to the company’s chosen hospice.
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Your Finest Hour For Hospice allows both businesses and employees to support their local hospice by simply donating an hour of your time. It’s an opportunity to take an hour out of our busy workdays to reflect and acknowledge what just 1 hour can do for your local hospice, whilst also appreciating the value and gift of time for yourself.
The hour your organisation gives to employees could look like gathering everyone for a pizza on their lunch break, or an hour of yoga – it’s up to you! Your event can be as simple as you like, the most important thing is that employees are treated to something special by the company in exchange for donating an hour of their salary to hospice.
The 24 Hospices nationwide that make up Together For Hospice, need to raise approximately €20million each year, with existing voluntary hospices receiving differing levels of state funding ranging from 58% state funded up to 90%. Some homecare services receive no state funding. Despite this, demand for services continues to grow and in 2023 alone, hospice and specialist palliative homecare providers across Ireland cared for over 14,000 patients and made over 87,000 homecare visits. Watch our video to learn more.
Anyone who has experienced hospice services, whether in a hospice, or in their own home knows that it is truly special. By taking part in Your Finest Hour For Hospice and donating just 1 hour of your time this April, you will be giving the gift of compassion, kindness and dignity to those that need it most at a time they need it most.
As a company you can sign up today and ask your colleagues to join you. Upon registering we will provide you with a digital pack containing;
- Event Ideas
- Email template to communicate your involvement with staff internally
- Social Media assets and suggested post content for communicating your involvement externally on platforms such as Linked-in.
- Etag for staff to promote your organisations involvement in the campaign
- Of Note: when employees make a donation at finesthour.ie they will receive a personalized Your Finest Hour For Hospice donation badge that can be shared online.
Event ideas
Remember! Your event can be as simple as you like and can be organised in line your resources. The most important thing is that employees are being treated to something special in exchange for donating an hour of their salary to hospice.
Morning Coffee Break
- Get coffee and pastries in for the staff & take an hour to chat with your colleagues over a cuppa.
Lunchtime Treat
- Get your teams favourite takeaway delivered at lunchtime for everyone in the office.
Get Creative & Host a balloon raffle!
- Give each employee (who donated) a ticket with a number on it. Each ticket corresponds with a number written on a balloon. Each balloon has a treat inside such as; an extra annual leave day, an afternoon off work, a movie or concert tickets or a free Monday morning coffee!
Well-being hour
- Host a meditation or yoga session during lunchbreak.
- Offer employees some flexi-time to finish work an hour early or arrive at the office an hour later
- Simply give people an hour off to do something important to them such as spend time with family or friends or do an activity they enjoy.
Why get involved?
1: Support Hospice Patients
You can make a positive difference to our patients and their families at a very difficult time.
2: Support your company’s CSR goals
- Opportunity for employees to engage in a hour of down time and connection with their colleagues, as well as the feel-good factor of giving an hour of their salary to charity.
- Supporting worthy causes has proven to increase customer loyalty and enhance your brand values and awareness.
- Employee fundraising is a fantastic way to help to boost morale and team spirit. It can help with employee attraction, engagement and retention.
3: Impact
- The Impact of your support is measurable. We will provide each organisation with a tally of the number of hours donated, the total funds raised and number of hours of care delivered to hospice patients by your organisation.
- Get in the competitive spirit with other organisations through our website leaderboard which will show the percentage of employees who have donated in each organisation.
- As a national campaign, coordinated by Together For Hospice, it’s an opportunity to be part of a nationwide effort to support local hospices. Funds raised will be calculated for individual companies as well as nationally.
4: We’ve got you!
- We will support you every step of the way with a dedicated team in your chosen hospice.
Are you ready to sign up?
Here’s how:
- Register your company at finesthour.ie and select the hospice your organisation wishes to support.
(NB: If your organisation has multiple branches, please specify branch location when signing up) - Download your digital pack containing ways your company can participate and engage employees in the event.
- Choose a date in April 2025 for your company to give an hour of time to employees.
- Communicate your event details internally with employees using our email template.
- Employees are asked to donate an hour of their salary at finesthour.ie using our online wage calculator*.
*Please note that no information is stored in the wage calculator, this is a tool for illustrative purposes only.
Thank you.
Your time is a precious gift that will make a huge difference to hospice patients and their families.
