We are a community hospice serving patients and families facing life-limiting illness. Our interdisciplinary team provides expert medical care alongside emotional, spiritual, and practical support — ensuring that every person in our care is seen, heard, and held with dignity.
Our hospice was founded on the conviction that dying is a part of living, and that how we die matters. We exist to ensure that every person — regardless of background, income, or illness — has access to expert, compassionate care in their final months, weeks, and days.
We care not just for the patient, but for the family around them. Our interdisciplinary team — nurses, physicians, social workers, chaplains, counsellors, and volunteers — works together to address every dimension of suffering and every source of meaning.
We are proud to be part of a community that funds this work through donation, fundraising, and volunteering. Without that generosity, we could not exist.
Every decision we make — clinical, administrative, or interpersonal — is guided by the principle that each person deserves to be treated with complete dignity.
We address physical symptoms, emotional pain, spiritual needs, and the practical burden of serious illness — not just the medical condition.
The family is part of the unit of care. We support caregivers, answer questions honestly, and remain present long after a patient has died.
We are funded and sustained by the community we serve. We hold ourselves accountable to those donors, volunteers, and families with transparency in everything we do.
Hospice care is a team endeavour. Our IDG (interdisciplinary group) meets weekly to review every patient and ensure the care plan addresses every dimension of need.
Founded by a group of local clinicians, community members, and bereaved families who believed their region deserved better end-of-life care.
A small group of nurses, a GP, and three bereaved families formed a working group to explore what compassionate end-of-life care could look like in their community. The vision: not an institution, but a presence in people's homes and lives.
With a team of four nurses and six volunteers, we began our first home hospice visits. In our first year, we supported 18 patients — all referred by the same three local GPs who had championed the project from the start.
Community fundraising and a major capital grant allowed us to open an eight-bed inpatient unit for patients with complex needs that could not be managed at home. Waitlist: zero. We have never had a waitlist.
We appointed our first dedicated bereavement counsellor and launched our peer support group programme. Families told us the support they received after a death was as important as the support they received before it.
We introduced the family portal — giving families real-time access to care plans, visit schedules, and symptom updates, and creating a secure channel for messaging the care team. Take-up in year one: 84%.
We now support over 340 patients per year across all settings, with a team of over 60 staff and 140 volunteers. Every year, more families donate or fundraise in memory of a loved one we cared for — and that generosity allows us to care for more.
We are committed to financial transparency. 88p in every £1 donated goes directly to patient care.
Financial figures are illustrative for this demonstration. Real annual accounts would be filed with the Charity Commission and published on our website.
Every donation, volunteer hour, and referral helps us reach more patients and families at the moment they need us most.