Click here to see the Why! To help little Myles from Hope House and the 300,000 people who need to access the UK hospices, we must act together. As a supporter of several hospices, it is heart-breaking to see many who have invested time and fundraising to keep hospices open struggle to cover the basic operating costs.  Some have tirelessly fundraised to build precious rooms left empty because they cannot fund them due to cost constraints, placing added burden on donations. It is shocking, despite the reality that a well-funded hospice sector would ease the pressure on NHS and social care, hospices only receive between 20-33% of state funding.

The hospice sector already faces a £70 million black hole and so as there are hundreds of millions in annual FCA fines which go into the government pot and generally as a result of an injustice to the UK people who may benefit from the services offered by hospices, there is no better way to complete the circle by allocating these funds to the UK hospice sector.

Simi Epstein, Director of Income Generation, Hope House Children's Hospices, says: “Hope House Children's Hospices are grateful to Box Power for highlighting our need for additional and sustainable funding. We know that there are children and families in our local communities who are suffering and too many get support too late or not at all. 

“We are a charity that aims to give every local child with a life-threatening condition and their family access to professional care and improve their quality of life from the point of diagnosis. We would like to encourage everyone to sign this petition so that together we can ensure that no one faces the death of their child alone.”

Hospice signatories include: - Birmingham Hospice, Hope House and Tŷ Gobaith, Derian House Children's Hospice, Hospice at Home West Cumbria, Hospice At Home Carlisle and North Lakeland, Rowcroft Hospice, Kate's Home Nursing, Bury Hospice,  Prospect Hospice,  Dorothy House Hospice Care, St Wilfrid's Hospice Chichester, North Devon Hospice, St Kentigern Hospice, Longfield Hospice, St Wilfrid's Hospice (Eastbourne), St Raphael's Hospice,  Hospice of the Good Shepherd, Weldmar Hospicecare, St Helena,  Julia's House Children's Hospices, Ardgowan Hospice, Weston Hospicecare, Keech Hospice Care, St Peter & St James Charitable Trust, Saint Michael's Hospice, Herriot Hospice Homecare, Strathcarron Hospice, St Andrews Hospice (Grimsby), The Hospice of St Francis, St Christopher’s, St David’s Hospice (North Wales), Hospice of the Valleys

Members of Parliament include: Phil Brickell, Nigel Farage, Stuart Andrew, Ayoub Khan, Blake Stephenson, Brian Mathew, Danny Kruger, Dr Simon Opher, Jack Rankin, Jacob Collier, James Frith, John Milne, Kevin Hollinrake, Llinos Medi, Luke Taylor, Mims Davies, Paul Kohler, Rebecca Smith, Sir Alec Shelbrooke, Sir Christopher Chope, Sir Desmond Swayne, Steve Darling, Andrew Rosindell, Cat Eccles, John McDonnell, Ann Davies, Yasmin Qureshi, Dr Al Pinkerton, Nadia Whittome, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Ian Byrne, Kirith Entwistle, Will Stone, Chris Coghlan

House of Lords include: Lord Monks, Baroness Pinnock