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.
Prospect Hospice has made the difficult decision to postpone their Starlight Walk event, which was set to take place in June this year.
Amy Francombe, events and community manager at Prospect Hospice said, “Here at the hospice, our community is always at the heart of everything we do and each decision we make. With the ongoing uncertainty around coronavirus, we’ve decided to postpone our Starlight Walk event this year.
“The good news is we already have a date in the diary for next year’s Starlight Walk, Saturday 25 June 2022. You can register your interest in this event on our website www.prospect-hospice.net/starlight and we’ll let you know when the event is live.”
The charity’s flagship annual fundraising event raises a phenomenal amount each year from those who take part and all the money raised by entry fees and sponsorship goes directly towards supporting the care of local people living with a life-limiting illness, and their families.
The hospice has continued to provide their free-of-charge services to patients and their families throughout the pandemic even though their income dried up almost overnight back in March 2020. Having to cancel the event this year due to Covid-19 will have a huge impact on the hospice’s finances.
To make sure they can continue to offer the same standard of care to all of those that need it in the local area and to bridge that gap in funding, the charity has launched a ‘Thanks A Million’ campaign.
The campaign will see hundreds of local people acting as champions for Prospect Hospice through holding a fundraising page and encouraging friends and family to donate to it. The campaign will only be live for 36 hours over 25 and 26 April and some of their champions are getting involved by doing their own starlight walk.
Amy continued, “A number of our past starlight walkers will be carrying out their own socially distanced starlight walks with a group of up to five friends over the 36 hours the campaign is live. We’re providing them with goody bags and team Prospect Hospice t-shirts and during their walk friends and family will be donating to their fundraising page.
“There are various ways you can take part in the campaign, doing your own socially distanced starlight walk, making a donation, or having a fundraising page. However you choose to support us, it will really make a huge difference to Prospect Hospice at this time.”
Visit www.prospect-hospice.net/thanks-a-million/
22 March 2021
18 March 2021