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“I want to stay at home” has been the frequent request heard by the community specialist palliative nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic…. and “we will do all we can to enable this” has been our [...]

An End of Life Nurse Specialist at Poole Hospital and Forest Holme Hospice has raised over £2,200 for the hospice charity by climbing the equivalent of Mount Everest as she recovered from [...]

A 10-year-old boy from Poole is making a splash by replicating swimming the English Channel to help raise money for Forest Holme Hospice. To achieve his ‘Channel swim’, Fraser Burnet will [...]

Forest Holme Hospice, alongside the palliative care services at Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust, Lewis Manning Hospice Care and Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have teamed [...]

Tie a Yellow Ribbon Dedications Under the current Government guidelines, our usual Tie a Yellow Ribbon event on June 18th will unfortunately not take place at the hospice this year, so instead we [...]

Due to COVID-19, we are currently unable to host our FREE Bereavement information event for those who may have lost a partner or family member. Therefore, the counselling team have put together [...]

Please note that due to the coronavirus outbreak the conference has been postponed until September or October 2020. We will publish a new date once it has been confirmed. Forest Holme Hospice has [...]

Big thank you to Maria Morton who hosted our first series of Memory Bear Creating Workshops last week. Maria made her first memory bear for her daughter from her late husband’s clothes and since [...]

Thank you to Viv Schuller for the generous donation of £730.00, which was raised from the 2019 Christmas Lights display at Runton Road in Poole. With the amazing support over the years of Viv, [...]

Maria Morton recently hosted a Memory Bear Creating Workshop, the first of three weekly workshops where participants learn how to make a unique keepsake made from clothes of a loved-one. Maria [...]