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Thank you so much to 12 year-old Bournemouth School for Girls pupil Ava Scowcroft, who raised £200 for the hospice during lockdown by making and selling face masks. Ava’s grandmother was at [...]

Congratulations to our volunteer Audrey, who celebrated her 90th birthday recently at The Ritz in London with her daughter. Audrey still actively fundraises for the hospice as well as running our [...]

A gruelling 24 day, 875 mile Jogle from John O’ Groats in Scotland to Land’s End in Cornwall has raised over £6,000 for Forest Holme Hospice Charity. 45-year-old Claire Smith from [...]

Have you seen our Tree of Celebration? For a donation to Forest Holme Hospice Charity, you can dedicate a leaf in memory of a loved-one. Each leaf will be engraved with a personalised message and [...]

“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 [...]