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 might just be over one month since Christmas Day and, while it’s a distant memory for many, one local charity is still benefitting from the holiday spirit.
Prospect Hospice is celebrating after their Christmas tree recycling service raised over £18,000 to care for local people.
The tree-cycle initiative in partnership with Just Helping, took place on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 January, across Swindon with more than 1,100 real trees collected.
Jo Hyde, clinical lead of the hospice’s inpatient unit said:” I’d like to thank everyone who was involved in making our tree-cycle initiative the best year yet, including all our wonderful volunteers who gave up their time for free to help us over the weekend. We collected over 500 more trees this year than we did last year so I want to thank everyone who arranged their collection through us and donated to the hospice. Their donations make a real difference to the people we care for and £19,000 will mean a great deal to the hospice.
“I know many people will think that their £15 might not go very far however, collectively, through having their trees collected and donating, this £18,000 will mean we’re able to look after at least two patients on our inpatient unit and provide everything they need during their entire stay with us. An incredible achievement made possible through this initiative.
” I’d also like to thank to our partners, Just Helping for helping to coordinate the weekend and Enterprise and SW Group Logistics who provided vehicles free of charge, as well as teams from Amazon who also supported the collection. It really is amazing what we can all achieve when we come together, so thank you to everyone who was involved.’
The trees have now been taken for recycling where they are being chipped and reused locally in the grounds of sports fields or to make paths in local parks.
To find out more about ways you can support Prospect Hospice visit https://www.prospect-hospice.net/support-us/
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