Garden House Hospice Care

08/12/2025

Our Community Team will visit 29 patients every day throughout the festive season – including Christmas Day – providing care, keeping families together and bringing peace and comfort during what can be a difficult time of year.

Your generous, unwavering support has smashed this year’s Big Give Christmas Challenge for us – which we are so very grateful for. But, with a £750,000 funding shortfall and winter putting extra pressure on our services, we need your help more than ever. If you can, please help us bring light and comfort to people spending their last Christmas at home by supporting our Crisis Appeal.

🔗 Together, we can protect the future of Garden House Hospice Care, so that no one has to face life’s hardest moments alone. Head to ghhospicecare.org.uk/crisis-appeal today

05/12/2025

Here Kathryn shares what it means to support patients in their own homes on Christmas Day – offering compassion, dignity, and comfort when it matters most.

But referrals to our community services have risen by 25%, and with Hertfordshire recording the highest number of people on the End-of-Life Register in England, demand this winter is greater than ever.

💙 We need your help to keep pace with this growing need.

🔗 Please support our Crisis Appeal to help ease the pressure of our financial shortfall. Your support will ensure that Garden House is here for local people and families, now and in the future. Head to ghhospicecare.org.uk/crisis-appeal today.

04/12/2025

🎉 We did it! Thanks to the incredible generosity and support of our community, Garden House Hospice Care has reached our £80,000 target in The Big Give Christmas Challenge in just under 36 hours.

🩵 To everyone who donated, shared and championed us out in the community: a heartfelt THANK YOU. You’ve made an extraordinary impact.

But our work doesn’t stop here. We still face a significant funding shortfall, and we need our community now more than ever. Winter is a challenging time – we’re working hard to ensure we can continue supporting local people today and tomorrow. Your donations will have a massive impact on our care this Christmas and long into the future.

🔗 Please donate, fundraise and share: www.ghhospicecare.org.uk/crisis-appeal

04/12/2025

📢Calling for for our annual fundraiser

03/12/2025

Our Community Team, led by dedicated professionals like Cathy, spend their winter supporting people in their own homes – ensuring they can stay where they feel safest and most comfortable, surrounded by those they love.

By donating via The Big Give Christmas Challenge, you can help us support more people this winter, and your gift will be doubled at no extra cost to you.

🔗 Visit bit.ly/BigGiveGHHC or search Garden House Hospice Care at biggive.org to donate today.

03/12/2025

💙 What your support means.

Winter is tough when you’re in the late stages of a life-limiting illness, especially if you want to stay at home for what could be your last Christmas. The practical and emotional toll looms for patients and their loved ones, unsure of what the festive period will bring and how they will cope.

This is where our community team come in. They will spend their winter caring for people in these situations in the comfort of their own homes, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to meet patients’ needs. In winter especially, this crucial service keeps families together and people out of hospital.

Every donation you make this week via the Big Give Christmas Challenge, until midday 9th December, will be doubled. Together, we could raise £80,000 to help families stay supported and together this Christmas.

If you can, please help us bring light and comfort to people spending their last Christmas at home.

🔗 Visit bit.ly/BigGiveGHHC or search our name at biggive.org to donate.

02/12/2025

✨ Help us brighten a family’s Christmas when they need it most. The Big Give Christmas Challenge is now open.

This winter, more people than ever are reaching out for our community care. Referrals are up 25%, and for many, staying at home for what may be their last Christmas means everything.

When the nights grow colder, our nurses and healthcare assistants get in the car and drive out to bring warmth, comfort and expert care into people’s homes. They’re there to hold a hand, ease worries, support families – and sometimes even pop Christmas dinner in the oven.

From midday today, to midday Tuesday 9th December, every donation you make will be doubled. Together, we could raise £80,000 to help families stay supported and together this Christmas.

Your gift, doubled, can make all the difference:
💙 £38 → £76 could fund a home visit
💙 £102 → £204 could keep our team on the road for two days
💙 £1,681 → £3,362 could fund a full day of home visits

With a £750,000 funding shortfall and winter putting extra pressure on our services, we need your help more than ever. If you can, please support us in bringing light and comfort to people spending their last Christmas at home.

🔗 Visit bit.ly/BigGiveGHHC or search our name at biggive.org to donate.

02/12/2025

🚜✨ A wonderful morning filled with creativity and community pride.

Yesterday, a team of volunteers, community champions and members of our local farming community, gathered to judge this year’s Decorate a Tractor competition. And just like previous years, the standard was sky-high!

We received an incredible number of entries from imaginative local school-aged children, each one bursting with colour, texture and festive flair.

After plenty of thoughtful reviewing (and a few playful debates!), our judges narrowed the entries down until a winner and runner-up was decided. The winning design will be brought to life on a real tractor, ready to sparkle in this year’s magical tractor rally on the big night!

💙 A huge thank you to everyone who entered and helped make this year’s competition so special. The winner and runner-up will be announced in a school assembly next week – stay tuned!

Date for your diary:
🚜 Farmers on Christmas Lights Tour
🗓️ Sunday 21st December 2025
📍 Starting in Baldock at 6pm

01/12/2025

Winter is an especially tough time for people in the late stages of a life-limiting illness. The cold, isolation, and emotional strain make it even harder to stay at home for what may be their last Christmas.

Our community team of nurses, healthcare assistants and support staff spend their winters visiting people at home, helping families cope and escalating issues. They keep families together, safe, and at peace during the hardest months of the year.

But, referrals to our community services are up 25%, and with Hertfordshire having the highest number of people on the End-of-Life Register in England, demand this winter is higher than ever.

💙 We need your help to meet the rising demand. The Big Give Christmas Challenge can enable us to raise an incredible £80,000 in just seven days, that’ll ease some pressure on our financial shortfall. From midday tomorrow (2nd December) for one week only, every £1 becomes £2 at no extra cost to you.

🔗 Visit www.ghhospicecare.org.uk/the-big-give from 12pm tomorrow, or search our name at biggive.org to make your donation.

30/11/2025

26/11/2025

Dr Sarah Bell, our Medical Director, is currently attending the Hospice UK National Conference. Here, she addresses a new plan announced by Care Minister Stephen Kinnock which aims to tackle concerns around access to end-of-life care.

While exciting for the future, the new framework does not take into account the issues that hospices are facing right now. Fairer, sustainable funding must remain a priority for the government - failure to acknowledge the crisis hospices are in today will impact the delivery of vital end-of-life care tomorrow.

26/11/2025

ITV News returned to the Hospice on Monday – this time for the ITV Evening News, sharing our story with viewers across the country.

The piece shines a light on the increasing pressures facing hospice funding and why long-term, sustainable support remains essential. It also features comments from Health Minister Stephen Kinnock MP on the importance of strengthening end-of-life care, including proposals for more community-based, collaborative teams.

We’re proud that so many of the ways of working highlighted – closer partnerships between care homes and paramedics, and supporting people to receive palliative care in the place of their choosing – are already core to how our teams deliver care every day. Their commitment makes a real difference, even in the face of ongoing funding uncertainty.

Our wonderful patient Roz appears once again, alongside her sister Suzanne, who both speak so powerfully about the care we provide.

🔗 Read the full update and find ways to support our Crisis Appeal here: www.ghhospicecare.org.uk/crisis-appeal

💙 Thank you for standing with us.