Perhaps I should explain a little more. Dorothy House is there for the people of Bath, Wiltshire and Somerset. Dorothy House provides a huge range of care services for the Terminally ill and their relatives and carers. This care includes inpatient and outpatient services at the Hospices, outreach into the community through home visits and includes long-term support for bereaved families. This last points especially important for children who have lost a parent.

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Dorothy House helped my family through the difficult terminal phase of my late wife, Jean’s life, and continue to help us beyond her death in April 21 at the age of only 57. Jean was diagnosed with Breast cancer on Christmas Eve 2015 (not the best Christmas present she had received), she went through over a year of treatment including Chemotherapy, Surgery, Radio therapy and a whole host of drugs to fight the cancer and to moderate the side effects. By 2017 we thought she was clear of cancer, but by the end of 2018 the cancers had returned, and by then were terminal. It was at this terminal phase that Dorothy House became involved and provided support for 2 ½ years until Jean’s death. The support provided was superb, even though much was affected by the Covid 19 restrictions and lockdowns Dorothy House was still there for us.  The final three weeks of Jean’s life when she was an inpatient at the Winsley Hospice were made bearable by the care, compassion and dedication of all the staff.  All this is done through donations as only a tiny amount of the Dorothy House funding comes from the NHS.