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.
Our Day Therapy services have helped patients who are living with a life-limiting illness since the hospice in Wroughton first opened its doors. They help patients access some of our services, to live as independently as possible with the challenges they face. This means that they and their families can adapt their lives and lifestyles by using services including our twice-weekly Day Therapy, our Open Programme, the support of our physiotherapists and occupational therapists and our lymphoedema team.
For patients like Pete Garner from Swindon, our Day Therapy services have been a huge help as he has adapted to life with Motor Neurone Disease. Pete’s someone with a positive outlook on life, but he readily acknowledges that what he’s learned through the Day Therapy team has built his confidence and enabled him to cope better with his illness. “The support I have had has been excellent,” he says. “I’ve not met anyone at Prospect Hospice who hasn’t been very willing to help me, and that’s been important because I am not someone who finds it easy to ask for help. If I come with a problem then there always seems to be someone in the team who will help fix it. That ranges from the nurses and therapists in Day Therapy, through to the brilliant volunteers who are there every week too.”
Pete’s first experience of our support came when he first attended our Open Programme, our regular series of sessions presented over several weeks. “I learned a lot,” he says. “One week we explored fatigue, which is something that I live with all the time, and learned to always keep something in reserve. On another week we looked at anxiety and stress, and learned techniques about how to manage both, and these have helped me ever since. I was always quite a confident person, but this has bolstered my confidence in my life with MND. And coming to Day Therapy every week is great. My loss of ability with my hands has meant I’ve not been able to take part in craft activity, but I enjoy spending time with people in similar circumstances to mine – and the banter is great!”
Pete’s grateful for the support of the local community which means that he can benefit from a weekly session of our support. “This is a really great service for people in a situation like mine,” he says. “To people who raise funds for Prospect Hospice, as many of us do in this community, I can tell them with absolute certainty that your money is very well spent.”
Pete Garner is pictured, right, with Day Therapy volunteer Mick Blunsden.
06 September 2018
28 August 2018
25 August 2018