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.
This week marks national volunteers’ week and while many of the activities planned to honour and recruit volunteers have been cancelled, one local charity is using the week to thank those who give up their time to support them.
Prospect Hospice relies heavily on volunteers to support them in a range of roles and knows that, without the support of so many, they wouldn’t be able to provide the level of care that they’re known for in the community they serve.
Su Starkey, head of voluntary services at Prospect Hospice, said: “We have around 900 volunteers who give their time to us to help support our patients in a variety of way. Our shops rely on them and they help generate around £2million each year to support our work. That’s an incredible amount when you think about it and we simply wouldn’t be able to do that without them.
“The roles covered by volunteers are so varied. We have people helping us in the hospice with serving patients their meals three times a day, driving patients to day therapy sessions, gardening and assisting with office based tasks. We have many who also help out in the community collecting donations from supporters and sitting with patients in their own homes, keeping them company while their carers do a bit of shopping or have some time to themselves.
“Volunteers are the heart and soul of the hospice and I want to say a huge thank you, on behalf of us all, to every single one of them.”
During this time each year, the hospice hosts an event to honour its longest serving volunteers and awards them with a certificate. This event usually takes place at the hospice and gives volunteers the opportunity to come together and meet others who also give their time to the hospice.
“We’re not able to host our long service awards as we normally would this year but that doesn’t mean we won’t be doing it,” said Su. “We’re embracing technology and will be taking our awards ceremony online this year and we’ll host our virtual ceremony on Friday to say thank you to those who are collecting their awards.”
At their long service awards this year, the hospice is marking the contribution of 40 volunteers who, between them, have contributed a staggering 520 years to help the charity.
*Please note that the photo opposite was taken at last year’s long service awards*
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