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.
Thank you to everyone who came along to support It’s a Prospect Knockout on Sunday at Swindon Cricket Club. You battled the heat and took on the challenges with great enthusiasm and have raised an incredible amount of money to help support local people living with a terminal illness.
Huge congratulations to our champions Dolly Mixtures 1. In second place, by only a single point was our hosts the Swindon Cricket Club and Coe Capital team and third place went to Dolly Mixtures 2. Well done also to the Knockout Rockers who won the wooden spoon award.
Thank you to everyone who made a huge effort to come in fancy dress, decorated gazebos and brought joker cards all of which earned extra valuable points with the joint highest score going to Wild Wild Westrop and The Incredibles – both from Westrop Medical Practice.
Thank you to everyone took part and came along to support this event, including:
– The Bower Rangers from Bower Bailey Solicitors – Show Gnome Mercy from Leading Resolutions – Fine Flushers from Water Research Centre – Bassett’s Allsorts who took part in memory of Claire Bassett – Med Zeppelin from Westrop Medical Practice – The Irradiators from Steris
Special thanks also to those that made the day happen including:
– Swindon Cricket Club for hosting us – Arkells Brewery for sponsoring soft drinks – The Ridge Swindon for donating a percentage of their takings – Serendipity for their delicious cookies – And, of course, to all our staff and valued volunteers who helped on the day or baked cakes to sell
Check out our gallery below to see how much fun we had raising vital funds for local people with a terminal illness.
Find out more about the events taking place to support the hospice below