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.
Keen runner Richard Deaman completed the 2019 Bath Half Marathon in aid of Prospect Hospice, raising £620.00.
Richard wanted to ‘give something back’ and recognise the outstanding care and support that his father and their family received from Prospect Hospice.
Reflecting on the four months in 2012, when his dad was being cared for at the hospice, Richard said: “We were able to use the time we had with dad to reminisce and enjoy our time together.”
Following several years of being unable to gain a place in the London Marathon, in October 2018 Richard turned his attention to taking on the Bath Half Marathon.
Although Richard had been running for a while, he had only been running shorter distances before he started training for the half marathon.
After months of increasing distance and the number of days training the day of the race came. “It was an emotional day,” said Richard. “I felt privileged to be able to run the race, and remember my dad whilst supporting the hospice.”
Richard managed to complete the race in just slightly over his two hour goal and was pleased at how well it went.
Richard set himself a fundraising target of £500 and said: “I was touched by the way that my friends, family and work colleagues had supported me with my challenge.”
Sally Bere, Challenges Fundraiser, said: “I would like to thank Richard for all of his hard work. To take on and finish the Bath Half Marathon and beat his fundraising goal is an amazing achievement. We really do appreciate the fantastic support Richard has shown the hospice. The money raised will help us to provide dedicated end-of-life care across Swindon, Marlborough and north east Wiltshire.”
We have our fingers crossed that Richard gets a place on the starting line of the 2020 London Marathon.
Feeling inspired? Are you looking to challenge yourself? Fancy doing something you’ve never done before? Then join Team Prospect!
When you join Team Prospect and take on one of our exciting challenges, you will help us to provide top quality care to our patients and support for their families.
For more information visit our Challenges page here
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