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.
It’s not every young nurse who is drawn to the field of end-of-life care, but Jo Hyde has been central to the remarkable development of our services since joining our team.
“Why did I want to come here?” Jo asks. “Well, 19 years ago, I was working as a general nurse when I saw an advert for the role in the local paper. I was thrilled when I got the call inviting me to join the team. I felt I had the passion and energy to help provide the care people deserved at the end of their lives. Throughout my career here, that’s never changed.”
The young Jo found herself developing her skills alongside more experienced nurses. “I learned so much,” Jo remembers. “The care and compassion was immense. It felt almost like a family, all of whom believed very strongly in what we were doing. There was a real sense of unity through our nursing.” Five years later, the opportunity arose for Jo to become the sister on the Day Therapy Unit: “It was very different but it was a great experience,” she says. “I was given a huge responsibility for the care and safety of patients and their families, and it was great to be involved in the development of the service.” There was one day during her time in the role that Jo looks back on with sadness: “I’ll always remember the flood in July 2007,” she says. “Everyone pulled together – from across all parts of the hospice – to first make the patients safe, and then to save what we could. It was incredible to see but, I admit, when I got home I sat down and cried.”
Time leading our day services prepared Jo for her next move to the role of Carers’ Support Lead in the Family Support Team: “Everything we do for carers is a benefit for patients too,” she says. “I was thrilled to be appointed Family Support Team Leader last year because, in my years here, I’ve seen the huge difference we are able to make to families and their loved ones.”
As she heads towards a 20 year milestone at Prospect Hospice, Jo is clearly appreciative of the direction in which working here has taken her: “I’m grateful for the opportunities to do more than I knew I was capable of,” she admits. “Being able to influence change around the future care of people who are dying, enabling them to come here for rehabilitation then return home – that would have seemed incredible when I first came here – and now it’s the norm,” she says. “People are living well for longer, and to witness that has been incredible. I feel very proud of everything we have collectively done at Prospect Hospice, and I am proud to have been a part of that too.”