Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation

The Hospice website serves very different people, often arriving with very different priorities. Patients and families may be looking for information about care or visiting a hospice, while supporters want to donate, fundraise, volunteer, attend an event or find a local shop.

Our challenge was to create a structure that could accommodate all of these journeys without making the experience feel complicated or overwhelming. Clear navigation, strong signposting and a carefully considered content hierarchy became central to the redesign.

Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation provides specialist inpatient and community palliative care, family and bereavement support, while also relying heavily on community fundraising and donations to sustain its work.

The new website needed to communicate both sides of that organisation clearly. Care information is given the space and sensitivity it requires, while donations, fundraising, volunteering, events and other ways to support the Hospice are woven naturally throughout the experience rather than feeling like a separate part of the site. This creates a clearer connection between what the Hospice does and the community support that makes it possible.

Rather than designing around a fixed set of pages, we developed a flexible system of reusable content components that could accommodate everything from patient information and hospice services to news, events, fundraising campaigns and impact stories.

That flexibility has become particularly important as the organisation enters its next chapter, including the development of Sunflower Children’s Hospice, Ireland’s first children’s hospice outside Dublin. The result is a platform that can evolve without losing the consistency and simplicity established through the redesign.

The finished website gives Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation a digital platform that better reflects the scale of its work today, from its two hospice units and community care services to fundraising, volunteering and its plans for the future. Most importantly, it makes it easier for people to find what they need, whether that’s care, information, a way to help, or a way to give.