Prospect Hospice has been part of the Swindon community for over 40 years, caring for local people at the end of their lives. As a charity, we rely on the generous donations of the public to help us raise the vital funds we need to ensure everyone is offered our outstanding care free of charge.
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.
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.
Prospect Hospice is the leading provider of education and training for end-of-life care in Swindon and north-east 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. Our team of skilled clinicians are at the heart of our education programme and work alongside our education team. They are passionate about sharing their skills and experience, ensuring all activities are delivered with integrity and that they are relevant to local need too.
Volunteers play an extremely important role in not-for-profit organisations such as charities. With this in mind, this course will help you to manage your volunteers effectively, to harness their skills and experience, ensuring they feel safe, supported, rewarded and valued.
This virtual session (with active participation) offers you the opportunity to explore advance care planning alternatively known as planning ahead. This is where the individual is enabled to think about what they would like and want to happen in the future and equally what they don’t want to happen.
There are many benefits to both giving and receiving a massage, especially for those who may experience anxiety or depression, but also as an excellent tool for calming the mind.
During this four hour workshop, you will develop techniques to use in your everyday life, to help you deal with the effects of stress. Develop ways in which you can reduce the impact that stress has on your life.
Working in an end of life care (or other care settings) presents many challenges with one of the most difficult being how you manage, and feel comfortable and confident, with conversations that matter, where “getting it right” feels paramount.
This session offers you the opportunity to explore grief and loss in the workplace and how do we support those who are bereaved. Whether that is the person, those important to them or ourselves.
This online session addresses how we recognise when someone is entering the last months and days of life. It explains what holistic care means as well as exploring the key ingredients to managing symptoms and difficulties. It is the small acts that make the big difference.
Aromatherapy has been around for thousands of years and is a popular complementary therapy that many people who are going through cancer treatments want to explore but don’t know where to start.