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.
The directors of 73-year-old Swindon-based car dealers Fish Brothers have donated £5,000 to Prospect Hospice’s Thanks a Million challenge on behalf of the company.
“As a third-generation family firm we feel a very strong connection with our community anyway – our staff and customers are at the heart of what we do, and we are proud to support local charities,” said Tim Fish, one of the directors.
“Our support for Prospect Hospice goes back about ten years, when my wife and I did the Camino Santiago pilgrimage walk in Northern Spain. One of the people in our group was Suzanne Bradley, and as we walked the 130km of course there’s time to do a lot of talking. One of the things Suzanne told us about the work her late father, David Margesson, did for Prospect Hospice.
“I was blown away by what she told me, about this amazing charity we have in the midst of our community, which has such a positive impact on people in the last year or two of their lives, and also how Prospect Hospice supports the entire family. David had been president of the hospice, and was a consummate fundraiser. I felt that Prospect Hospice was something that we at Fish Brothers really should support.
“We all have sad periods in our lives, and have loved ones who need the specialist end-of-life care that only a hospice can provide. Having had two loved ones who have been cared for by Prospect Hospice, I know first-hand what a difference that care and support makes.
“We finished our walk, but Suzanne’s story had lodged in my head, and I was convinced that David’s wonderful work must be continued.
“I hope that as many people as possible will also support this Thanks a Million fundraiser. None of us knows when we, or someone we love dearly, may need that specialist care – care that, because it’s funded by lovely generous local supporters, mean that it can be centred on treating the patient as a person, rather than solely treating the illness.
“Everyone of us who gives is making sure that wonderful gold-standard of care and support can be accessed by everyone who needs it – and at no financial cost whatsoever.
“Prospect Hospice has done so much for the community over its 40 years – let’s all just give it the push it needs to make sure it can continue helping everyone until its usual fundraising sources – its shops, events and challenges – can be resumed again.”
Irene Watkins, chief executive at Prospect Hospice, said: “This is a wonderful donation and I want to thanks them enormously for this. Times have been tough for all business, not just charities, over the last year so for them to think of us and donate this sum is incredible in such challenging times. It’s really going to boost our Thanks a Million fundraising challenge total and every penny of it will be spent on caring for local people who need our specialist care at the end of their lives.”
To donate to the hospice as part of our Thanks a Million challenge, click here.
25 April 2021
21 April 2021