Welcome to our website

• Watch our progress as we develop services
• Note our fundraising events
• Discover our retail shops
• Learn about volunteering opportunities

.............. and much more

At the heart of everything we do is the real challenge of developing specialist services for people who have progressive incurable diseases, many of whom are in the end stages of their lives. We also need to provide their families and carers with practical support, a listening ear and access to specialist counselling.

Did you know that our Home Support Service (Palliative Care) provides over 130 hours a month of practical, domestic help to people with progressive incurable diseases. Your generous contributions enable Louth & District Hospice to provide £1,500 a month to keep this service going.

Our Hospice Day Care receives some funding from NHS Lincolnshire and, whilst we hope this funding will continue, your essential donations help us to make the patients' experience extra special. We are also hoping, with a grant from the NHS, to expand Hospice Day Care into another town within our catchment area.

For the future we intend to provide hospice inpatient beds and, whilst we have a significant amount secured towards this, we still need precious funds to pay specialist staff and buy equipment and furniture.

We are very aware of the economic situation but would urge you to spare a couple of minutes thinking about what a difference a local independent hospice will make, to people with incurable illnesses and their families. Do please help if you can.

Whilst maintaining our existing services our target is to raise enough money to support the equipping, furnishing and staffing of the new inpatient unit that is being planned. For example we need to raise at least £6,000 to furnish each of the six in-patient bedrooms and £35,000 for the kitchen. We will need a minimum of £7,500 to provide all of our clinical supplies such as portable syringe drivers for pain relief and even £6,500 for cleaning and hygiene supplies.

Perhaps you could ..........

• become a Fundraising Volunteer
• hold your own event on behalf of the Hospice (why not request our free fundraising guide)
• look out for news of forthcoming events on this website and in the press
• volunteer in one of our shops or warehouse
• donate goods for sale in our shops
• play our Lottery
• become a Hospice Member 

Our staff are willing to give talks and presentations to any groups in the area - just ring and book us in!! Please call into the office or our shops or ring 01507 354545 to speak to one of our friendly hospice staff and volunteers.

Congratulations to Mr Brian Allison & Mrs Eileen Allison on becoming our first Hospice Lottery players! As a token of our appreciation we are delighted to award them with their exclusive Hospice Lottery Bear and a certificate. 

We invited Mr & Mrs Allison to the Hospice Day Care Unit to see how the money raised from the Hospice Unity Lottery goes towards providing services for our patients. For every one pound played in the Hospice Lottery we receive 50 pence. This goes towards providing support for local people receiving palliative care from Louth & District Hospice.