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 daughters of a man who was cared for by Prospect Hospice are urging people to support the charity’s Thanks a Million summer raffle.
Chris Marlow received care at the hospice in Wroughton and also by its specialist team of nursing staff at his home. Chris died at home, in West Swindon, surrounded by his family on 13 March 2021, aged 63.
Chris helped support Prospect Hospice’s raffle in 2020 by writing a letter to the charity’s supporters and his daughters, Sam and Zoe Marlow, wanted to carry on his legacy by endorsing this year’s summer raffle.
The raffle continues the hospice’s Thanks a Million campaign which aims to raise £1million to cover the funding gap left as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In their letter to the charity’s supporters Sam and Zoe, pictured with Chris and their mother Ann, talk about how the hospice supported them as a family.
They say: “We each deal with situations in life differently and the hospice adapted to both of our needs, rather than offering a ‘one size fits all’ approach. We knew this was how they were working with dad, making sure his care was personalised and tailored to his wants and needs, but we were surprised and reassured when they did the same for the care they gave us as his family.
“Like many people, we were nervous when dad said he was going to the hospice. Before then, we’d always been a little uncertain of the hospice. To us, it was a place of sadness. How wrong could we have been?
“Dad absolutely loved it there. He was very open with us about the care he was receiving and spoke so highly of everyone. He opened our eyes to all the services that were available and taught us so much about hospice care.
“From the first time we met everyone at the hospice, the care was consistent. Right throughout the pandemic, despite everything, dad’s care and support continued and so did ours, they were always there for us.
“The hospice was with dad to the very end and we can’t thank them enough for the support they gave to him, and us, throughout that time. While dad may now be gone and we are learning to live without him, his legacy lives on. We’ve pledged to make dad’s final wish to raise more money a priority for us and we so hope that you can too.”
They add: “Prospect Hospice is an amazing local community charity that has meant so much to our family. By buying some raffle tickets you are helping to support their work, so they can continue to care for all the patients and families like ours that need them so badly when facing such a difficult time.
“The hospice is still working hard on their Thanks a Million campaign which aims to raise enough to cover the £1million funding gap they foresee for 2021 caused as a result of Covid-19. So please help us to make this raffle the biggest ever – our dad would have been so proud.”
Tickets for the raffle cost £1 each and the first prize is £2,000. Other prizes are £500 for second place, £250 for third, plus five prizes of £50. Prizes have been kindly donated by Imagine Cruising, based in Royal Wootton Bassett.
Tickets can be bought online here and entries close on 23 September 2021. They can also be bought in Prospect Hospice’s charity shops from Monday 12 July.
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