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.
Following the successful re-opening of its charity shops earlier this month, Prospect Hospice is going to be opening a selection of them on Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays.
In Swindon, the charity’s shops in Gorse Hill, Old Town, Regent Street and West Swindon, along with its shop in Cricklade, will be open on Bank Holiday Mondays starting on Monday 3 May 2021.
The Gorse Hill, Old Town, West Swindon and Cricklade shops will also open on Sundays, starting from Sunday 9 May. The Regent Street shop (pictured with volunteer Doreen Maskelyne (left) and manager Laura Williams (right) will be opening on Sundays on a fortnightly basis, from 9 May, followed by 23 May, 6 June, 20 June until 4 July.
Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday opening times are 10am to 4pm.
Victoria Canavan, head of retail at Prospect Hospice, said: “We’re excited to be opening a selection of our Swindon shops and our Cricklade shop on Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays. It gives us another opportunity to generate income for the hospice while also giving customers the opportunity to shop.
“For people who work during the week Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays could be a convenient time for them to visit our shops and pick up some quality items of clothing, books and homeware. Also, parking in the council’s car parks in Swindon town centre is free on Sundays.”
Prospect Hospice has 15 charity shops in Swindon, Cricklade, Marlborough, Pewsey, Royal Wootton Bassett and Wroughton.
They re-opened on 12 April, the first time in 2021 due to the Coronavirus national lockdown, and Victoria said there was pent up demand from shoppers.
“Our shops have been really busy with customers buying and donating items,” she said. “In the first week of trading after the lockdown some of our shops doubled their income targets, which is more than we took at the peak Christmas trading period.
“Clothes have been our biggest seller. During lockdown people were perhaps focussed on spending money on their home and their garden. Now that our shops have re-opened customers have been coming back and looking for a wide variety of beautiful spring and summer clothes. We have some hidden gems in our shops.
“We’re also really grateful that customers held on to items through lockdown to donate to our shops. Since the shops re-opened we’ve been overwhelmed by the response – we’ve had double the amount of items donated than normal.
“Our staff and volunteers are delighted to be back working in our shops and welcoming customers. Our communities love our shops and are over the moon that they are open. We have amazing supporters who visit our shops every day.”
Customers wishing to donate items such as clothes, homeware and books to the charity’s shops are asked to make an appointment by calling them. For details of the shops click here
If you have furniture to donate please email vanbookings@prospect-hospice.net
The charity is in need of sofas, chairs, book shelves, dining room table and chairs, side tables and chest of drawers. Sofas and fabric chairs must have fire labels attached.
26 April 2021
25 April 2021