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.
Supporters of a local charity will once again be able to donate goods directly to some of their shops as of today.
From Thursday 1 October, six Prospect Hospice charity shops will be able to accept donations in store for the first time since they closed for lockdown back in March.
Those wishing to donate will need to call ahead to book an appointment and donations at this time will be limited to up to three bags per person to ensure shops have enough space to store items for their quarantine period before sorting them and getting them out on the shelves.
Victoria Canavan, head of retail at Prospect Hospice, said: “Since our shops started to re-open back in July, we’ve seen a huge amount of support from local people shopping with us to support end of life care in the community. Because of this, we desperately need more good quality stock to sell to our customers to help raise vital funds for the hospice.
“With items needing to be stored in quarantine before they are sorted, this has dramatically reduced the amount of space we have to sort our donations and impacted on the time it takes us to get our donations out to shops for sale, therefore we’d really appreciate all those who have been keeping hold of their pre-loved goods for us to come and see us with their items now we’re in a position to be able to accept these again.”
In order to ensure the safety of staff, volunteers, donors and customers, those wishing to donate will also be asked to complete a short Covid-19 survey over the phone when they book their donation appointment.
The Prospect Hospice shops able to take donations from today are: Books and media on Commercial Road, Swindon, Cricklade, Highworth, Pewsey, Royal Wootton Basset and the Wroughton shop – the distribution centre remains closed for donations at this time.
To find out more about the items the hospice is looking for at the moment, and to book your appointment directly with each shop, click here.
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