Rowans Hospice

Established since 1994, we support more than 1,000 patients and families across Portsmouth and South East Hampshire every year.

Rowans Hospice is a charity offering free specialist Hospice care and bereavement support across South East Hampshire including Waterlooville, Portsmouth, Gosport, Fareham and Hayling Island. We provide our services free from discrimination and free of charge, but it costs £7.2million to continue our vital work, and we rely on charitable giving for 90% of this income.

29/12/2025

Our Kilo Sales are back for 2026!

Start the new year off with a bargain and shop sustainably with a huge variety of pre-loved items. You will not only be shopping sustainably but also supporting your local Hospice 💚

📅Saturday & Sunday, 24 & 25 January 2026

🕕10:00am – 4:00pm on Saturday & 10:00am – 12:00pm on Sunday

📍Rowans Hospice Farlington Warehouse, Unit 6a Marshlands Road, PO6 1ST

🎟️ £2 entry – must be booked in advance

🛍️ £5 per Kilo

New stock is brought out between each time slot, so secure your place in advance! https://buff.ly/LfbdUSB

27/12/2025

We are delighted to again be arranging our Christmas Tree Collection across our region of care. 🌲

From Thursday 8 to Saturday 10 January 2026, our dedicated volunteers will collect your tree from your home and ensure it is recycled in an environmentally friendly way, while your donation for this collection will help fund the £21,000 it costs to run Rowans Hospice for one day.

Registrations for collections close at midnight Sunday, 4 January 2026, so make sure you don’t miss out.

Book your collection quickly and easily via our website: https://buff.ly/ZN5EJHw

26/12/2025

We are delighted to announce we will be supporting Key to joy through our Christmas Tree Collection this year 💚💙

Key to Joy support and improve the wellbeing of adults with mild to moderate learning difficulties through a range of life-enhancing activities.

Key to joy enables their members to contribute to society in ways that were previously unattainable. They give adults with learning difficulties and neurodiversity the tools to reach their full potential, and experience joy in the process.

We are delighted to support them with 15% of the funds raised through the Christmas Tree Collections. 🩷

Support Rowans Hospice and Key to Joy by booking your Christmas Tree Collections - https://buff.ly/QaQbqIF

25/12/2025

Merry Christmas from everyone at Rowans Hospice!

Today, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to our community, volunteers, supporters, and staff, especially those who are working throughout the festive period to support our patients who are staying with us for Christmas.

Your kindness and generosity make it possible for us to continue providing compassionate care to local people and their families when they need it most.

We hope your day is filled with peace, comfort, and moments of joy with the people you love.

Wishing you all a warm and wonderful Christmas. 🎁✨

24/12/2025

This Christmas Eve, we are extremely thankful to everyone who helped bring the festive spirit into the Hospice for our patients, their families, and our staff. 🎄

Bringing Christmas to our In-patient Unit is so important for those spending the season with us, allowing families to continue making precious memories together at a special time of year.

We would like to thank everyone who came into Rowans Hospice this winter to spread kindness and love, from choirs singing Christmas carols to our patients, to present donations, brass bands playing, ukulele groups strumming, Amazon Wishlist items arriving, Santa’s donkey, and even some piglets who came to visit our patients.

On behalf of everyone at Rowans Hospice, thank you. 💚

23/12/2025

Help us ensure that every family has the opportunity to share a cuddle during the most difficult of times. Gift a Cuddle This Christmas. ✨

With only three cuddle beds for sixteen rooms, we dream of a time when no one has to say goodbye from a distance.

Each of these beds costs £15,000 and your donation could help us bring families closer, turning a lonely night into a moment of love and comfort.

Donate via our website - https://buff.ly/bB3Wk7C

22/12/2025

Are you already enjoying the magic of a real Christmas tree this year? 🎄

When your decorations come down, Rowans Hospice can help make saying goodbye to your tree simple, sustainable, and stress-free. Taking part can help us to raise the £21,000 per day it costs to run the Hospice.

From Thursday 8 to Saturday 10 January 2026, our dedicated volunteers will collect your tree from your home and ensure it is recycled in an environmentally friendly way.

Register your collection by midnight on the 4th January here: https://buff.ly/pIfNmFJ

21/12/2025

Over this festive season, we will have varied opening hours across our Living Well Services and our Retail Stores. For the full list of opening hours visit our website below or get in touch with a member of Living Well Services or Retail Staff. ❄️

Our Retail Stores will all be closed on 24 – 26 December 2025, and 1 January 2026.
From 27 – 31 December, usual trading hours will apply.

For information on specific shop opening hours, please visit our website: https://buff.ly/oa4p0YU

Our Living Well Services will be closed on 25 – 28 December 2025, and 1 – 2 January 2026.
Please note that our community hubs will be closed until 5 January 2026.

For more information, please visit our website: https://buff.ly/vl00Dus

20/12/2025

We would like to say a heartfelt thank you to KRP Developments, who reached out to us to offer their support.

The team at KRP Developments donated enough presents for all the patient who will be here at the Hospice on Christmas day. The gifts included puzzle books, chocolates and fruit baskets for our family area, and fidget toys for the children being supported by our Meerkat Service.

We are incredibly grateful for their support and look forward to continuing this partnership in 2026.

Thank you KRP Development 💚

19/12/2025

Remember someone special with Light Up a Life.

Light Up a Life is an annual celebration of loved ones who are no longer with us, observed by hospices across the UK during the festive period. At Rowans Hospice, we celebrate Light Up a Life through our Lake of Lights event, that took place at Canoe Lake in Southsea on Sunday, 14 December 2025.

If you were unable to join us on the night, you can make a dedication on our Light Up a Life Dedication Wall. If you can donate to Rowans Hospice at the same time, it would be very much appreciated. All donations, large and small, make a difference to the Hospice.

Make your dedication our memory wall - https://buff.ly/3CQXkwQ

18/12/2025

This Thursday, we would like to say a huge thank you to Chris Short for completing his 1000-mile bike ride from Land’s End to John O’ Groats in support of Rowans Hospice.

Chris had originally set a fundraising target of £500 to raise for Rowans Hospice but smashed his goal with reaching an incredible total of £7,110! Having suffered with Crohn’s Disease for over 25 years, endured 14 operations and with a permanent Stoma bag since 2022, Chris said:

“If the ride wasn’t challenging enough, it would be even harder dealing with the issues that come with Crohn’s and dealing with a Stoma”

We are all so very grateful for Chris’s wonderful achievements and the support that he has given to us. Thank you. 💚

17/12/2025

We would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who attended Lake of Lights on Sunday,14 December.

It was incredibly moving to see over 4,000 of our supporters coming together to remember their loved ones. Thanks to everyone, the evening raised an incredible £15,000 for the Hospice. 💚

We would like to say a special thank you our volunteers who gave us their precious time to help us make it happen, to the and Lisa Marie for her beautiful singing, and to AJ Wheeler for sponsoring the programmes.

If you would like to remember someone special and could not attend the Lake of Lights, you can leave a dedication on our Memory Wall here- https://rowanshospice.light-up-a-life.org/

Address

Purbrook Heath Road
Waterlooville
PO75RU

Telephone

+442392250001

Website

http://www.rowanshospice.co.uk/

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The Rowans Hospice Charity provides outstanding care and support to adults, carers and families who are living with a life-limiting or progressive illness in Portsmouth and South East Hampshire. The Charity provides care from the point of diagnosis, through to specialist end of life care, as well as support into bereavement. It costs £7.5 million to provide these services free of charge, and we rely on charitable giving for 90% of this income. Please donate today to help keep this care free for those who need it now and in the future. Thank you for your support.