Spring news update

The daffodils are in bloom and with it, we reflect on days gone by and look ahead at to the Spring and Summertime. I has been a busy few months for us and things are going to get very exciting in the weeks and months to come

We thank our community of users and all of those who continue to support our free to use platform and ongoing advocacy

Platform updates

We continue to improve the experience and services provided for MyWishes users. We have refreshed the homepage and will be making further updates in the weeks ahead. The Digital and Social Media Will tool features are currently undergoing a makeover with improved functionality and content. Changes will be deployed in the next two weeks. A sneak peak of the homepage design is shown to the side (below if you are viewing this page on a mobile device). This will be made live as part of the next update.

Hospice UK’s National Legacy Campaign

We are supporting Hospice UK’s National Legacy Campaign. It’s goal is to encourage more people to leave a gift in their Last Will & Testament to their local hospice

MyWishes will writing and funeral planning service is free. We believe that our will writing service is the only, genuinely ‘free will writing’ solution available in the UK. Other platforms claiming to be ‘free’ either require charities to pay them (instead of the person writing their will) and/or the service charges the user an ongoing fee after the first year. To learn more about how we are supporting hospices and the national hospice legacy campaign, click here.

Top 100 Health and IT Company

In March we were recognised as a top 100 ‘Healthcare IT company and startup’ in the UK. We are delighted and honoured to be included. We are also very happy with out entry position…. 57!

The last few years has been a wonderful journey shared with many across the UK and beyond. We look forward to building upon what we have started in the months and years to come.

Sharing knowledge at conferences and events

We continue to share knowledge at conferences and train the both the public and professionals in areas relating to planning ahead. Recent talks include a face to face presentation at Hospice UK’s Technology Leaders Conference in February, a training course for the Princess Alice Hospice and a webinar for University of the Third Age (U3A) members. A video snippet from the U3A workshop can be viewed below.

Academia

We continue to publish our work, insights and outcomes to academia. The last publication was a poster for Hospice UK’s National Conference in Glasgow. ‘The wellbeing hub – reimagining wellbeing services’ poster can be viewed below and on Research Gate.

The Digital Legacy Conference 2024

We supported the Digital Legacy Conference 2024 (Bern Switzerland) in November. This year’s conference took place as part of Public Health Palliative Care International Conference (PHPCI). It was our first PHPCI and it is a truly wonderful conference that we will be attending again in the future.

The Digital Legacy Conference took place on the last day of PHPCI and proved to be a deep sharing of knowledge and best practice. A special “thank you” to PHPCI for your support, Meta (Facebook) for sharing your expertise and all of the wonderful speakers and attendees. To learn more visit www.DigitalLegacyConference.com

The National Advance Care Plan Day will return in 2025.

Due to the huge impact ACP Day 2024 made, we have decided to make the awareness day and annual occurrence.  The 2025 awareness day launch will take place very soon but until then we can confirm:

  • ACP Day 2025 will take place on the 7th March (save the date)
  • It will be bigger and better than last year.
  • Your organisation can host its own ACP Day event and we will support you with your this.
  • The National Conference will return to Norfolk. Last year the sold out conference welcome 320 people venue and hundreds tuned into the live stream. We expect the same to take place this year. The 2025 keynote will be delivered by Dr. Christian R, Ntizimira (founder of the Safari Concept). Free tickets are now available. Those unable to attend can access the conference via a live stream.

Although the 2025 website is still a work in progress (for which we apologise) it can be viewed in it’s current state here https://AdvanceCarePlanDay.org

Secret news (TBA soon)

  • We are working on a top secret, high impact new project. All will be announced in April but we cannot wait to share it with you.
  • We have two international talks booked in for the Spring / Summer time. These will be announced in April.

…Have an amazing few weeks 🙂

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