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Forest Holme Hospice

We help ensure that everyone in our community affected by life-limiting illness or bereavement, gets the care and support they need, either at home or in our dedicated hospice facility.

NHS funding is limited, which is why we need to raise £1 million each year so that our team can deliver the highest level of care, when and where it counts.

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Our wonderful volunteers take on all sorts of activities to help support Forest Holme Hospice and our fundraising activities.

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News

22nd Jul 25

MND charity Golf Day gives £3,000 donation

An annual charity Golf Day organised by Danny’s MND Mission at Ferndown Forest Golf Club has once again raised vital funds in support of Motor Neurone Disease (MND) causes, including a generous £3,000 donation personally delivered by Danny to Forest Holme Hospice Charity.

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21st Jul 25

Struck Gold

Having recently scooped the top prize in the ‘Community Support’ category at the Poole Business Awards for our Bereavement Café, we were absolutely thrilled to take home Gold in the same category at the BCP Business Awards.

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24th Jun 25

Charity champion takes dream Ant & Dec holiday after raising £10,000

Forest Holme’s long-time supporter, Paul Payne, jetted off to Menorca for a well-earned break — thanks to ITV’s Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway — after raising £10,196 at his sixth annual charity Golf Day hosted at Knighton Heath Golf Club in Poole.

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19th Jun 25

Community comes together to remember loved ones at Tie A Yellow Ribbon

The Mayor and Sheriff of Poole were amongst hundreds of people who gathered in Poole Park to honour the memory of loved ones at Forest Holme Hospice’s annual Tie A Yellow Ribbon event.

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21st May 25

University Hospitals Dorset awards success

Forest Holme Hospice’s Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurse, Sarah Burrows, scooped the top prize in the Patient Choice category at the recent University Hospitals Dorset awards in Bournemouth.

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7th May 25

Hospice at Home is expanding into Poole

Forest Holme Hospice Charity is funding an expansion of a Hospice at Home service expansion into Poole for patients under our palliative care services. 

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