Cornwall Hospice Care is a charity-funded

hospice Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life. Hospice care prioritizes comfort and quality of life b ...

based in

Cornwall Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, ...

, England, established in 1980 providing

palliative care Palliative care (from Latin root "to cloak") is an interdisciplinary medical care-giving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating or reducing suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses. Man ...

. It operates Mount Edgcumbe Hospice in

St Austell Saint Austell (, ; ) is a town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, south of Bodmin and west of the border with Devon. At the 2021 Census in the United Kingdom, census it had a population of 20,900. History St Austell was a village centred ...

and St Julia's Hospice in

Hayle Hayle (, "estuary") is a port town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated at the mouth of the Hayle River (which discharges into St Ives Bay) and is approximately northeast of ...

. From 1999 until 2006 the two hospices were run as separate charities though with a single Board of Trustees and one senior management team. , it cost £8.4million a year to run the organisation, but only 11% of this was funded by the NHS, much less than the national funding average of 34% for hospices. The

Wolfson Foundation The Wolfson Foundation is a British registered charity that awards grants to support science and medicine, health, education and the arts and humanities. It was established in 1955 and re-registered in 2014. , the endowment of the Wolfson Fo ...

provided a grant of £88,000 towards a major refurbishment of Mount Edgcumbe Hospice in 2013. In 2021 the Freemasons of Cornwall made a grant of £29,895 intended to make hospice care more accessible to people who have been homeless or have had HIV or substance abuse problems. In 2022 it moved its fundraising charity shop from

Penryn, Cornwall Penryn (; , meaning 'promontory') is a civil parish and town in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is on the Penryn River about northwest of Falmouth. The population was 7,166 in the 2001 census and had been reduced to 6,812 in the 2 ...

to Church Street,

Falmouth, Cornwall Falmouth ( ; ) is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Falmouth was founded in 1613 by the Killigrew family on a site near the existing Pendennis Castle. It developed as a po ...

. It sells vintage and retro clothes, bric-a-brac, books, and homewares.

References

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* Hospices in England Health in Cornwall 1980 establishments in England {{UK-med-org-stub