St. Margaret's Furniture Shop Bridgwater - 01278 458785

St. Margaret's Hospice is your local charity committed to providing specialist palliative care, advice, support and respite to patients and their families.

Welcome to St. Margaret's Hospice in Somerset

St. Margaret's Hospice is your local charity committed to providing specialist palliative care, advice, support and respite to patients and their families living in Somerset and parts of neighbouring counties. Our care is available for those who have a terminal or life-limiting illness, for example cancer, motor neurone disease and chronic lung disease. In 2010 St. Margaret's celebrated 30 Years of Caring for the people of Somerset.

Patient with nurseThrough our medical expertise, nursing skills and specialist support services, we offer physical, emotional, social and spiritual care to our patients and their families. Bereavement support is also available.

Our services are also available to patients where our specialist knowledge, skills and expertise will provide relief for their specific illness, such as symptom control, breathlessness management, lymphoedema treatment, physiotherapy and occupational and complementary therapies.

St. Margaret's Hospice is fully registered under the Care Quality Commission

No matter who you are or where you live, someone needs your enthusiasm, skills and time. Volunteering isn't just about giving - you'll gain from the experience too. You will meet new people, acquire new skills, enhance your CV and have lots of fun.

In St Margaret's, volunteers support and enhance the work of our staff and are a necessary and valued part of the hospice team. They are involved in a range of activities including:
##Administration - using computers, filing etcVolunteer at Glastonbury Festival
##Bereavement support
##Chaplaincy support
##Complementary therapy services
##Day Hospice services
##Driving - providing lifts for patients and carers
##Flower arranging
##Gardening
##In-patient care - reading to patients, serving drinks, providing company
##Reception duties
##Shops

Sixth form fundraisers In addition we have a team of volunteers who are scattered across the county, and beyond, raising vital funds, holding their own events and supporting our fundraising events, and who help to raise awareness about our work.