Skanda Vale Hospice is situated between Carmarthen and Cardigan on the A484, in the village of Saron. Our central location puts us at the heart of the peaceful rural community of Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. We currently offer a full respite care service, and can arrange for clinical care to be provided by visiting nurses or GP's.

The hospice is open five days a week, usually from 9.30am until 4pm. Our policy is to be as patient-centred as possible in all matters, so opening hours can be flexible to suit the requirements of our visitors and their families. (We’ve even been known to open on weekends!)

We’re thrilled to announce that finally, after many years of planning and fundraising, we’ve now started developing our new in-care unit.

As many of you will already know, we are currently a day care centre. We provide personal care and respite to anyone with a life threatening illness. Our long-term vision to provide an in-care unit is about to become a reality. We are going to build five beautiful, homely bedrooms on the first floor of our Hospice, so we can give people a wonderful experience of love, care and peace at the end of their lives.

This takes a lot of planning – we are currently working out the details of what services to offer, how we intend to offer them, and how we are going to fund it all. When this is complete, the next stage will involve commissioning architects to create a beautiful, peaceful and uplifting space for our future patients.

We anticipate the planning, building, registration and set up of the new service to take approximately two years. We’ve made one big step forward already, by deciding to employ a small team of full time nurses. Initially we thought all the care could be entirely volunteer based, but as we looked deeper we realised this was unrealistic – we can’t provide the consistent level of clinical experience necessary without full time dedicated nursing staff. So there are exciting new opportunities for people with clinical and nursing skills to work alongside the monks and nuns in a non-voluntary capacity.

All enquiries are warmly welcomed; please call us on 01559 371222.