Great Oaks Hospice’s mission is to provide the best care and support for everyone in our community when they need it most.
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Wellbeing service
Our Wellbeing Team of clinical staff and trained volunteers offer a range of scheduled services and deliver a busy calendar of support for adults living with progressive, life-limiting conditions and their carers, family or friends.
With a focus on living well and adaptation, the wellbeing centre services include therapeutic activities, clinical advice, social groups, bereavement support and some outreach opportunities.
The current Wellbeing timetable is shown below but enquiries are welcome. The team can be reached by email wellbeing.centre@great-oaks.org.uk or phone 01594811910.
WELLBEING CENTRE
In our Wellbeing Centre we support adults with life limiting illnesses, their loved ones, carers and people who have been bereaved. Our nurse-led Wellbeing Team of staff and volunteers deliver a busy schedule of patient and carer support services. The focus is on wellbeing and adaption, and the services include therapeutic activities, social groups, clinical advice and outreach opportunities. For more information about the Wellbeing Service please email wellbeing.centre@great-oaks.org.uk or call our Main Reception on 01594811910.
CANCER SUPPORT GROUP
Our regular group supports people who have had a cancer diagnosis and are at any stage of living with cancer. The group offers friendship and peer support to all members, it also provides clinical support and advice through our trained healthcare professionals and volunteers. For more information about the Cancer Support Group please email the Wellbeing Centre on wellbeing.centre@great-oaks.org.uk, or call our Main Reception on 01594811910.
Be Here, Be You, Belong
The wellbeing benefits of exercise are widely known but it can be difficult to find the right exercise class when you are living with a life-limiting condition, or you are receiving or recovering from treatment, and you are not sure where to turn. Our weekly Be Here, Be You, Belong classes are accessible, adaptable, relaxed, friendly fitness sessions, where everyone is welcome and supported to do what’s manageable for them. Activities include: gentle dance fitness, seated ballet, hydrotherapy, and more. For more information about our sessions please email wellbeing.centre@great-oaks.org.uk or call our Main Reception on 01594811910.
COFFEE MORNINGS
Our coffee mornings provide an opportunity for anyone from our community to come into the hospice, find out what we do, and how we might be able to support you or someone you care for who has a life-limiting illness.
These friendly, informal sessions are hosted by our trained healthcare professionals and volunteers in our hospice in Coleford on the 1st Wednesday of each month, between 10.30am and 12.30pm.
For more information about the Coffee Mornings please email wellbeing.centre@great-oaks.org.uk or call our Main Reception on 01594811910.
BEREAVEMENT CAFÉ
Our Bereavement Café aims to give a social space for local people, who have been bereaved and are grieving, to connect and support each other during what can feel like a lonely time. We invite anyone who has been bereaved and is feeling alone in their grief to drop in to the hospice and join us for coffee and cake, and other refreshments, from 2.00pm – 4.00pm every Thursday. For more information about the Bereavement Café please email wellbeing.centre@great-oaks.org.uk or call our Main Reception on 01594811910.
MENS GROUP
This is Great Oaks fastest growing group! Aimed at adult men of all ages, our men’s group is for anyone with a life-limiting condition who is looking for a relaxed, friendly, supportive group to join. The group meets every Wednesday afternoon in our Wellbeing Centre, where everyone is welcome to catch-up over a game of table tennis, darts, skittles or other activities, or to simply enjoy a quiet cup of tea/coffee if you prefer. For more information contact the Wellbeing Team by email wellbeing.centre@great-oaks.org.uk or phone 01594811910, or just come along on a Wednesday afternoon.