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’s supporters will be embracing festival fever when they join this year’s Starlight Walk.
A firm favourite on the hospice’s events calendar, participants can choose to walk either a 10km or 15km route through the streets of Swindon. Walkers are encouraged to get into the festival fever spirit by digging out your cowboy hats, whacky costumes and glittery face paint – although this isn’t obligatory. Tickets cost £15 per person.
Taking place on Saturday 24 June 2023, this much-loved event already has a number of people registered.
Among those signed up is Lynn Parfrey who has been taking part in the Starlight Walk for many years. In 2019 she created Mandy’s Robins with friends and family following the death of her sister Mandy, who spent six weeks being cared for at Prospect Hospice.
“Mandy received second to none medical care in the hospice,” said Lynn. “They treated her with the upmost care and dignity. As a family we often look back on the last weeks with Mandy and remember it fondly and a huge part of that is because of the care we all received from the staff.
“We plan to do many more events to help raise funds for Prospect Hospice so they can continue to support other families like ours. We cannot express our gratitude and love for all they did for Mandy in her last days. Thank you for making an incredibly difficult time a little easier.”
The Starlight Walk is an opportunity for the local community to come together and raise vital funds for Prospect Hospice to help them provide essential care to local people living with terminal illnesses.
For further information about the event, or to buy your ticket, click here.
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