At Prospect Hospice, we provide outstanding, personalised and compassionate care for everyone in Swindon, Marlborough and the surrounding areas affected by a life-limiting illness, completely free of charge. For more than 40 years, we’ve been a dedicated, non-hospital, end-of-life care service for patients and their loved ones - around the clock, every day of the year. Our mission is to ensure that anyone can access the best possible expert care whenever and wherever they need it – whether at the hospice or in their own home. As a charity, we only exist because of the generosity and support of our amazing local community.
Find out about the range of end-of-life care services that we offer to patients and their families. These delivered free of charge and are designed to provide compassionate, personalised support during every stage of a life-limiting illness in every kind of care setting, to anyone who needs it.
We couldn’t do what we do without considerable support from our local community. Find out all the different ways in which you can support Prospect Hospice, including fundraising, volunteering and purchasing from our shops. All contributions are greatly appreciated and enables us to deliver care that is free of charge to our patients and their families.
Our café sits at the heart of our hospice in Wroughton and serves a range of delicious home cooked meals to suit all tastes. Whether you're looking to catch up with friends over lunch or relax with coffee and cake, our Heart of the Hospice café has you covered.
Whether shopping with us in person or online, or donating your pre-loved goods, we thank you for supporting us through our shops where you help to raise around £2million a year for Prospect Hospice.
We pride ourselves on being a great place to work and we're always looking for outstanding people to join our team at the hospice across all areas of the charity.
Prospect Hospice is the leading provider of education and training for end-of-life care in Swindon and north Wiltshire. Working closely with you, our colleagues within partner organisations, we want to ensure that the very best care is available to everyone facing the end of life. This is why we provide education and development opportunities, all of which aim to encourage learning and build confidence in end of life care and support.
We would like to say a massive thank you to Linus and Rachel who on the 21 October took part in the Tube Challenge. Thirteen year old Linus and his mum set themselves a challenge of visiting every tube stop in one day.
Linus has always had a great fascination of the tube and when he decided to raise money for Prospect Hospice, which is caring for his Grandpa, he thought that the Tube Challenge would be an ideal way to do this.
After a month of planning, they set off at 4am to board their first train at Chesham. To enable the challenge to be successful approximately every ten minutes they had to change lines to ensure all of the 270 stations were covered.
Linus said: “The first hour and a half everything went very smoothly. However, as we’d suspected, we fell behind schedule, due to the a few trains being delayed. However we continued on with good spirit, and only really hit a low point at Morden. Still we carried on, and when we got to Shepherd’s Bush we received sustenance from the support crew.
“The ride to Epping and around the loop was good, including seeing people get on and off at the least used underground station, Roding Valley. A good change to Walthamstow followed, and then we decided to change our route. Partly to fit in a twice a day service and also to finish close to home, at Kentish Town. We went ahead with it, and were extremely frustrated to find that the twice a day service was cancelled that day.
“We carried on regardless, and received a pasty from a second support crew at Richmond. Along to Heathrow, back into Paddington and then we fell to earth with a bump. When we got to the platforms at Paddington, we found out there was no service between there and Gloucester Road. Still we continued, and got to Cockfosters at around midnight, before going to High Barnet, and then we discovered that no trains went further than East Finchley.
“We’d done very well, with 261 of the 270 stations done, and none of the nine uncompleted stations we could have done anything about. We ended at our closest station and raised nearly £2,000 for an amazing charity. So overall, job very well done.”
Both Rachel and Linus said the day was exhausting taking over nineteen hours to complete with the biggest challenges being food and rest stops.
In the summer they are planning to try again to see if they can visit all 270 stations and are also considering the overground and DLR.
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