| North Devon Hospice | |
| Formation: | [1] |
| Type: | Charity |
| Purpose: | Provides palliative care |
| Headquarters: | Barnstaple |
| Region: | North Devon |
| Owners: | --> |
| Key People: | Stephen Roberts (chief executive)[2] |
| Budget: | £3.88million[3] |
| Budget Year: | 2020 |
| Revenue: | £7.51million |
| Revenue Year: | 2020 |
| Staff: | 195 |
| Staff Year: | 2020 |
| Volunteers: | 485 |
| Volunteers Year: | 2020 |
The North Devon Hospice is a charity based in Barnstaple, Devon, England, which provides palliative care. It was established in 1983.[4]
It operates a hospice in Barnstaple and palliative home care. It is developing a new base in the grounds of the Holsworthy Medical Centre.
In 2014, it won the UK Charity of the Year award.[5]
In June 2020, the Hospice's volunteers were awarded the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service.[6]
In 2020 11-year-old Max Woosey from Braunton, began raising money for the hospice, which had cared for his late neighbour Rick, by camping in his back garden.[7] [8] [9] [10] In August 2021 he spent his 500th consecutive night under canvass, by which time he had raised over £640,000.[11] In November 2021, Woosey was given a Pride of Britain 'Spirit of Adventure' Award presented by Bear Grylls,[12] and invited to spend the night camping on the pitch at Twickenham Stadium. Invited by the award organisers to spend the night before the ceremony in a hotel, he instead slept on its balcony.[13] Woosey was awarded the British Empire Medal in the 2022 New Year Honours.[14] In March 2023, Woosey announced he would end his challenge on 1 April with "a final celebratory camp-out festival". Stephen Roberts, the hospice's chief executive, said that Woosey's contributions had directly funded 15 nurses for a year.