St Peter’s Hospice Celebrates Double Award Win

Local charity St Peter’s Hospice is celebrating a double award win with accolades for its collaborative clinical work and its outstanding garden.

Teams at Bristol’s only adult hospice are delighted with the recognition for their respective areas, which they say has given a boost to hard-working staff and volunteers.

The first win was the Outstanding Collaboration Award at the annual North Bristol NHS Trust Staff Awards, which was presented to the team at St Peter’s Hospice alongside Southmead Hospital’s Psychology ILD (interstitial lung disease) multidisciplinary team.

The award recognised the Hospice team’s compassionate care for patients living with life-limiting respiratory conditions and their seamless collaboration with staff at Southmead Hospital.

Caroline Mundy, Head of Clinical Engagement at St Peter’s Hospice, said:
“We are delighted to win this important award, which reflects the dedication, teamwork and compassion that drive our service.

“Our partnership work has been ongoing over the past six years and we’ve built a service that ensures patients living with life-limiting respiratory illness can access compassionate hospice care when they need it most. Working together means we can offer patients the best possible care and support.”

Elsewhere in the organisation, the Hospice’s Head Gardener and team of dedicated volunteers were awarded a ‘Level 5 – Outstanding’ award at the 2025 It’s your Neighbourhood Awards, organised by the RHS.

This award celebrates the contribution of volunteers looking after a garden or community space. Head Gardener Anneke van Eijkern attended the awards ceremony with six volunteers who were presented with the award by the Lord Mayor.

Anneke said: “We are delighted with this award which recognises the vital contribution made by volunteers to maintaining community gardens. Our community here is obviously a special one for patients, their families and visitors and our staff, but increasingly members of the public who use our café and visit us for our annual Open Gardens event.

“All community gardens that entered were recognised with an award at different levels according to how much progress they are making against specific criteria set by the RHS. This was the first year we’ve entered so we were very pleased to be awarded level 5 – Outstanding!”

St Peter’s Hospice is Bristol’s only adult hospice. All care at St Peter’s Hospice is provided free of charge but the charity relies on gifts in wills, donations, fundraising and money raised through its retail shops to deliver its services.