Highland Hospice: Official 2027 Charity Partner
We are very excited to announce that Highland Hospice will be Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival’s official charity partner for 2027.
The partnership brings together two Highland organisations in a particularly special year, as Highland Hospice prepares to celebrate 40 years of providing care and support to people and families across the region.
While 2027 marks the first year of an official charity partnership between ourselves and the Hospice team, our relationship stretches back many many years, and we’re delighted to be building on that connection as the Hospice reaches such an important milestone.
Highland Hospice has been caring for people and families across the Highlands since 1987, providing specialist care, support and advice to people living with terminal illness, approaching the end of life, and those experiencing bereavement.
Its approach places each individual, and the people important to them, at the heart of their care. Alongside helping to manage pain and other physical symptoms, the Hospice provides emotional, social and spiritual support, as well as bereavement services for people of all ages following the death of someone significant in their lives.
Over the years, Belladrum has regularly donated festival tickets to Highland Hospice to support its fundraising activity.
In 2026 alone, Belladrum ticket donations helped to support more than £70,000 worth of fundraising for the charity.
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Bobby the Bee (Highland Hospice Mascot) alongside Dougie Brown left of Bobby, Cairan Macleod right of Bobby, and Highland Hospice fundraising staff and nurses.
As Belladrum’s official charity partner, Highland Hospice will have a prominent platform throughout our 2027 festival campaign and across the festival weekend itself. Festivalgoers will also be able to support the charity directly when purchasing their Belladrum tickets, with an optional donation available at checkout, alongside further fundraising and awareness activity planned throughout the year.
“We receive so much support from the Belladrum team and have built such a lovely relationship together, so we are absolutely delighted to be chosen as the festival’s charity partner for our 40th anniversary year. It’s huge for us and we can’t thank Belladrum enough for this amazing opportunity.”
Emma Nicol - Highland Hospice Fundraiser
The partnership builds on the many ways Belladrum and Highland Hospice have already worked together, from ticket donations and fundraising opportunities to connections through the Hospice’s annual Ness Factor fundraiser - with Ness Factor winners routinely given a spot at the festival each year.
Supporting Highland charities and community organisations has always been an important part of Belladrum’s ethos. Each year, we choose an official charity partner to fundraise for, collaborate with and provide a platform to throughout the festival cycle, while also supporting many more organisations through ticket donations, fundraising opportunities and charity spaces at the event.
Recent Belladrum charity partners have included Cantraybridge College, Highland Action for Little Ones, the Elsie Normington Foundation and Mikeysline.
As Highland Hospice prepares to celebrate four decades of care in the Highlands, we hope the Belladrum community will get right behind them throughout 2027.
“Highland Hospice is one of those organisations that has touched the lives of so many families across the Highlands, including people within our own Belladrum community.
We’ve been proud to support the Hospice for many years, so when we realised its 40th anniversary would fall in 2027, it felt like exactly the right moment to make that relationship official.”
Cairan Macleod - Marketing Manager - Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival
It will be a chance to celebrate the people who have shaped the Hospice’s first 40 years, raise awareness of the incredible work taking place across the region and, most importantly, help raise vital funds to support that work for many years to come.
We can’t wait to share more about the partnership, and the ways you can get involved, throughout 2027.
About Highland Hospice:
For almost 40 years, Highland Hospice has been providing care, support and advice to people living with a terminal illness, approaching the end of life, or experiencing bereavement.
Its care for people across the Highland region is centred on the individual, placing their needs, and those of their families, at the heart of decision-making. Highland Hospice helps manage pain and other physical symptoms to enhance quality of life. Their team also provides emotional, social and spiritual support, working closely with patients, families and carers to promote dignity and wellbeing at the end of life.
The Hospice offers bereavement services to people of all ages who have experienced the death of someone significant in their lives, regardless of the cause of death.
Through a range of therapeutic approaches, bereavement support provides a safe space for individuals to share their story, build positive connections with others, and strengthen their coping mechanisms, self-esteem and confidence.
Highland Hospice is delighted to have been chosen as Belladrum's charity partner for 2027, a special year marking 40 years of hospice care in the Highlands.
Charity number: SCO11227