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.
A local charity unveiled a poignant and touching ‘Remember Me’ roses display at its annual garden fete, held today in its gardens. The event witnessed the first look of a breathtaking river of a thousand hand-crafted metal roses, each a tribute to the memory of people who are no longer with us.
The ‘Remember Me’ roses display in the gardens at Prospect Hospice serves as a beautiful and enduring way to honour and remember loved ones who have died.
Carolyn Bell, director of patient services at Prospect Hospice said: “I am delighted that this year we introduced the ‘Remember Me’ roses display at our garden fete. This colourful installation is a poignant marker of how many people our community have loved and lost and how their memory still lives on with those they left behind. As a community charity, we wanted to create an opportunity to bring local people together to remember the lives of the people that matter to them who have sadly died. The stunning display has been appreciated by our patients and their families too as an additional temporary garden feature.”
“We have been overwhelmed by the generosity of our supporters, especially as times are difficult for so many,” explained Carolyn. “Every penny raised will help us to continue running the hospice’s vital services, providing care for many people at home and in the hospice, all free of charge to patients and their families in Swindon and north east Wiltshire.”
There are still a limited number of roses available to purchase for a suggested minimum donation of £30 until the end of September. The cost of crafting each rose has been kindly supported by the team at Arval UK meaning that all donations will go directly to caring for people living with a terminal illness in the community.
“Supporting the ‘Remember Me’ roses for Prospect Hospice is incredibly important,” said Zoe Maitland, head of sustainability at Arval UK. “Not only will they raise valuable funds for the hospice, but they are made from recycled cans, which helps them to be created sustainably. As a result of the initiative, we also collected our colleagues’ empty cans and sent them to the roses’ producers, so they can make more repurposed creations for other worthy causes similar to Prospect Hospice.”
Everyone is welcome to come and see the display which will run until the end of September. Afterward, the roses will be collected by those who dedicated them to cherish in a special place of their own.
For further information about the ‘Remember Me’ roses display, please click here.
05 September 2023
04 September 2023