Rowans Hospice

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.

Today, we are celebrating our incredible Health Care Support Workers. They are a huge part of the compassionate, dedicat...
23/11/2025

Today, we are celebrating our incredible Health Care Support Workers. They are a huge part of the compassionate, dedicated team members who make such a difference every single day here at Rowans Hospice. 💚

Their dedication, expertise, and compassion ensure that every person and family we support receives the care and dignity they deserve.

We are deeply grateful for everything they do, from delivering hands-on care and emotional support to creating a calm, welcoming environment for our patients.

Please join us in saying a heartfelt thank you to our Health Care Support Workers today and every day 💚

✨ Gift a Cuddle This Christmas At Rowans Hospice, we see every day how powerful a simple cuddle can be, the warmth, comf...
22/11/2025

✨ Gift a Cuddle This Christmas

At Rowans Hospice, we see every day how powerful a simple cuddle can be, the warmth, comfort, and closeness it brings in the most difficult of times.

A cuddle bed allows patients and their loved ones to lie side by side, hold hands, and share precious moments that might otherwise be impossible.

This Christmas, we are asking for your help to make sure every family has the chance for a final cuddle. With only three cuddle beds for sixteen rooms, we dream of a time when no one has to say goodbye from a distance.

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/TSHaD6F

Book Your Christmas Tree Collection! Plan ahead and register your Christmas tree for this years’ collection service, th...
21/11/2025

Book Your Christmas Tree Collection!

Plan ahead and register your Christmas tree for this years’ collection service, the easy, eco-friendly way to recycle your tree and support Rowans Hospice 💚

For a suggested donation, our amazing volunteers will collect your tree and recycle it into wood chippings and mulch, giving it a new life and helping to protect the environment through sustainable recycling.

📅 Bookings close Sunday, 4 January 2026
📍 Available in selected PO postcodes

To find out more, check your postcode, and book your collection, visit our website here - https://buff.ly/ai1Og5Z

The mystery craft bags will be available until tomorrow at our Havant and Cowplain craft shops! So grab your bag and dro...
21/11/2025

The mystery craft bags will be available until tomorrow at our Havant and Cowplain craft shops! So grab your bag and drop off your creation by Friday, 28 November to enter the competition 🎄

This Thursday, we would like to say a very special thank you to eight-year-old Elisa, for her incredible 20-mile cycle i...
20/11/2025

This Thursday, we would like to say a very special thank you to eight-year-old Elisa, for her incredible 20-mile cycle in memory of her dad, Pip.

In the summer holidays, Elisa cycled around Langstone Harbour in one day, in memory of her dad who taught her how to ride a bike when she was younger. Elisa has raised an incredible £2,742 for the Hospice and for the care that she received from our Meerkat Services. 🍃

Elisa said: “I want to raise money so they can help other families that are struggling like me and my Mummy did. They are amazing and brilliant.”

We are all so grateful for Elisa’s bravery and hard work. To read more about Elisa’s adventurous fundraising event, please visit the link below. 💚 https://buff.ly/8qO6Za9

At Rowans Hospice, we understand that living with a life-limiting illness can bring many challenges—not only for the per...
19/11/2025

At Rowans Hospice, we understand that living with a life-limiting illness can bring many challenges—not only for the person diagnosed but also for their loved ones.

That’s why our Living Well Services offer guidance, support, and connection for people aged 18 and over in Portsmouth and South East Hampshire—regardless of diagnosis, and at any stage of illness, including bereavement.

From complementary therapies and nurse-led support to social groups and wellbeing activities, our team is here to help you live as well as possible, for as long as possible.

To find out more about the support we offer, please visit: https://buff.ly/dwhORNO

📣We would like to advise you that our Fratton Retail shop will be closed from Monday, 24 to Thursday, 27 November for re...
18/11/2025

📣We would like to advise you that our Fratton Retail shop will be closed from Monday, 24 to Thursday, 27 November for refurbishment.

Unfortunately, they will be unable to take your kind donations during this period. The shop will re-open as usual on Friday, 28 November.

We have 16 retail shops, to find the one nearest to you please visit our website: https://buff.ly/H7ASlbC

This week we join voices across the UK for Children’s Grief Awareness Week. The theme this year, “Sharing stories, stren...
18/11/2025

This week we join voices across the UK for Children’s Grief Awareness Week. The theme this year, “Sharing stories, strengthening hope,” reminds us that for children, grief changes everything — how they see the world, how safe they feel in it, and how they connect with others.

Yet, even in grief, there is hope: hope that with the right support, at the right time, surrounded by love and understanding, children can grow, laugh and find joy again.

Every day in Rowans Meerkat Service, we are in awe of the strength shown by the children we support. Sometimes just to leave the house, to smile, to engage with friends or to manage an entire day at school. This is the true definition of resilience. We could not be prouder to be alongside these children, holding onto hope when, at times, that feels too heavy for them to manage alone.

An integral part of our service provision is our group sessions, where children have the opportunity to share their stories of loss, to have fun, and to learn they are not alone.

At Rowans Meerkat Service, we firmly believe that while bereavement is life-changing, it does not have to define a child’s future.

With support, understanding and hope, we can help each child to move forward with confidence, carry their memories with love and navigate their own path towards a happy and fulfilling life.

To learn more about how Rowans Meerkat Service supports children and families, visit our website: https://buff.ly/Hru9XG4

Remembering someone special with Light Up a Life. Light Up a Life is an annual celebration of loved ones who are no lon...
17/11/2025

Remembering 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, taking place at Canoe Lake in Southsea on Sunday, 14 December 2025 from 5:00pm.

If you are 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.

Visit our memory wall - https://buff.ly/xoOfjWG

Help us ensure that every family is given the opportunity to share a cuddle during the most difficult of times. At the e...
16/11/2025

Help us ensure that every family is given the opportunity to share a cuddle during the most difficult of times.

At the end of 2024 we were grateful to receive generous grants from The Grace Trust, The Mark Benevolent Fund and Hampshire, IOW Masonic Charitable Foundation, and an anonymous funder, to fund three Cuddle Beds for the In-patient Unit.

However, with 16 rooms in total, we are now appealing to our community to help us fund the 13 additional beds.

To donate visit our website - https://buff.ly/TSHaD6F

We have an exciting opportunity for a Bank Staff Nurse and Bank Senior Staff Nurse to join our Living Well Services💚 We...
15/11/2025

We have an exciting opportunity for a Bank Staff Nurse and Bank Senior Staff Nurse to join our Living Well Services💚

We are looking for two compassionate and experienced RGN’s to join our dedicated team in Purbrook, providing exceptional care to patients with life-limiting illnesses, their families, friends and carers.

🕛Applications close on 01/12/2025

🔗Apply today and be part of a dedicated team providing vital hospice care to the community - https://www.rowanshospice.co.uk/job/staff-nurse-senior-staff-nurse-bank-positions-available/

💛 Thank You BBC Children in NeedThis BBC Children in Need Appeal Week, we wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone at ...
14/11/2025

💛 Thank You BBC Children in Need

This BBC Children in Need Appeal Week, we wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone at BBC Children in Need for supporting our Rowans Meerkat Service 🐾

As part of Rowans Hospice, our Meerkat team provides specialist bereavement support to children and young people who are facing or who have experienced the death of someone special to them. 💚

Funding from BBC Children in Need helps us to continue offering this vital care, ensuring children receive the understanding and support they need, when they need it most 💛

We are incredibly grateful to BBC Children in Need for their continued partnership, helping us to make a positive difference and bring hope to the lives of local children and their families.

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Purbrook Heath Road
Waterlooville
PO75RU

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+442392250001

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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.