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.
After closing the doors to the public almost 900 days ago as a result of the pandemic, Prospect Hospice is now ready to re-open its Heart of the Hospice café to the local community.
The Heart of the Hospice café will re-open to the public on Wednesday 14 September and will serve a variety of hot and cold meals and drinks from Monday to Saturday between 11.30am and 2pm.
When lockdown was enforced on the country on 23 March 2020, the hospice closed its doors to the public to ensure they could protect their staff and patients while they continued to deliver essential end of life care both in the hospice and in people’s homes. The hospice is now ready to welcome people back to its popular café.
Catering manager, Carl Golding, said: “We know the Heart of the Hospice café was a big hit with the community looking for a good home cooked meal, giving them the opportunity to support a local charity at the same time.
“I’m delighted that we are ready to reopen and we have a refreshed menu that’s regularly updated so there’s always something different to try.
“The hospice is all about its people and there’s been a little something missing since our community hasn’t been able to come in and enjoy lunch with us so I’m really excited about welcoming them all back.”
The Heart of the Hospice is based in Prospect Hospice on Moormead Road in Wroughton and will be open from Monday to Saturday from 11.30am to 2pm from Wednesday 14 September. The café will serve a range of hot and cold meals as well as teas, coffees, soft drinks and sweet treats. All proceeds from the sale of food and drink goes straight back into the charity to help care for local people with a terminal illness.
The café is manned by volunteers who dedicated their time to ensuring customers are served and the charity is always looking for more people to help out. If you have a few hours to spare each week and would like to join the friendly café team serving customers, get in touch with the hospice via volunteering@prospect-hospice.net or call 01793 816193.
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