This being Hospice Care Week (5 – 11 October) – the annual Hospice UK campaign highlighting what it takes for hospices to provide high-quality end of life care at no cost to the patients they serve – St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth is shining a light on the vital difference its service made to a young […]
St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth provides specialist palliative care to people with life threatening illnesses and support to their families and carers, in partnership with others. The care is not just medical and nursing but incorporates emotional, social and spiritual support as well. We wish to recruit a new trustee and a treasurer to our Board […]
Are you accepting donations? We are pleased to announce that we will be accepting charity shop donations from Wednesday 16 September! Due to the generosity of our caring community resulting in an overwhelming volume of donations, we will temporarily only be using two donation points at our Plymouth City Centre Pop-Up shop at Western Approach (former Toys […]
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When your vital work caring for terminally ill people already takes its toll on you emotionally, how do you cope when it is made so much more challenging by the pandemic and its impact on not only the families St Luke’s serves, but the welfare of you and your own loved ones, too? Selina Rogers […]
Following official safety advice relating to mass participation events during the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the city’s best-loved charities has announced the cancellation of two of its flagship fundraising events for this year. Check your inbox… participants already signed up to Men’s Day Out or Midnight Walk have already been contacted by us via email […]
In May, at the height of the pandemic, Dr Doug Hooper, Consultant in Palliative Medicine in the St Luke’s team at Derriford, shared how it felt to be ‘in the eye of the storm’ at the hospital, with this specialist team extending their work to support the hospital in caring for COVID-19 patients. Nearly two […]
With just a month as Manager of our Modbury charity shop under her belt before lockdown forced the temporary closure of all St Luke’s stores, new recruit Nesha Clemens is finding that redeployment to the reception team at Turnchapel is giving her valuable insight into the bespoke end of life care our retail income supports. […]
Shops currently open Tuesday to Saturday | 9.30am to 4.30pm Plymouth City Centre Drake Plymouth City Centre Pop-up shop (former Toys R Us) Plympton, Huxley Close (near Chaplins) Plymstock, Sugar Mill Launceston Tavistock Opening Tuesday 4 August Saltash Opening Tuesday 11 August Plymstock Estover Ivybridge Southway Torpoint Opening Tuesday 18 August Yealmpton Plympton Ridgeway Barbican […]
With the current crisis meaning that sadly, more people are dying – and often more quickly – we’re extending the reach of our bereavement support service to anyone who has lost a loved one to COVID-19 or is anticipating this heartbreak. As part of our city’s response to help individuals and families affected by loss […]
