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.
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.
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.
Come together to talk about death, dying, and grief
Dying Matters Awareness Week takes place this year from 8 to 14 May, led by Hospice UK’s Dying Matters campaign. Throughout the week, people across the country will come together to encourage communities to get talking about death, dying, and grief. The theme of Dying Matters Awareness Week 2023 is ‘Dying Matters at work’.
At Prospect Hospice, there will be an interactive display in the Heart of the Hospice cafe which everyone is welcome to contribute to. The display will ask ‘What’s on your bucket list?’, encouraging us all to think and talk about death, and helping to break the taboo that surrounds it.
We will be holding a Death Cafe at Swindon Hub on Wednesday 10 May from 3pm to 4.30pm. The purpose of the Death Cafe is to open up conversation around death and dying in a safe and inclusive space. It is not a grief support or counselling session, but a space in which we can encourage discussion of this important but taboo topic in the hope of breaking the stigma that surrounds it.
There will also be a display at Swindon Hub in the town centre throughout the month of May, with information on Dying Matters Awareness Week and on the services provided by Prospect Hospice.
Prospect Hospice is also delighted to be hosting an exhibition of Hospice UK’s photography series in collaboration with renowned photographer Rankin. For more information, follow the link below.
Keep an eye out on this page and on our social media for more updates, event, and resources.
If you would like to get involved in Prospect Hospice’s Dying Matters Awareness Week, please contact larahill@prospect-hospice.net.
A list of resources to help you start the conversation around death and dying.
Click below to read more about the ‘I Remember’ exhibition