Palliative Care Week - "Living for today, planning for tomorrow"
We’re proud to be supporting the Living Well Day event, taking place at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
Tracey Dryhurst, Specialist Palliative Care Pathway Lead – Wellbeing Services for NCH&C NHS Trust at Priscilla Bacon Lodge will be one of the speakers. She will be launching our brand new Living Well Community Hub, based here at the Lodge.
We will be sharing more about this exciting development in the coming months.
In the meantime, if you would like to find out more about the Hub, or other services available across our community that support people to live well, this event will have all the information you need!
Programme of Speakers:
- 1:30pm “How the non-medical EOL Doula approach can dovetail in with Palliative Care Teams’ advance planning to support people to live better” – Alex Watson, End-of-Life Doula
- 2:00pm “Living Well with Palliative Illness” – Nichola Child, Tapping House, Compassionate Communities Development Lead
- 2:30pm “Introduction to the Living Well Community Hub” – Tracey Dryhurst, Specialist Palliative Care Pathway Lead, Wellbeing Services
- 3:00pm “Advance Care Planning” – Mel Taylor, Specialist Palliative Care Advance Clinical Practitioner
- 3:30pm “Pets As Therapy” – Carole Adam, Norfolk Area Coordinator for Pets As Therapy
We are delighted to be benefitting from funds raised at the Summer Barbecue at The Rectory Barn & Garden.
- Adults £9.00, accompanied children free.
- Please bring a bottle and something to sit on.
For more information, or to buy tickets, contact Nick and Helen Garrard: 01508 538014 or [email protected].
We are delighted to be Breckland Flower & Garden Club’s Chairman’s chosen Charity for 2025 and they are hosting a Quiz Night to raise funds for us.
- Max 6 per team.
- Arrive from 6:30pm, quiz starts at 7:00pm.
- £5.00 per person.
- Please bring your own snacks and drinks. Tea and coffee will be available.
- Donations of raffle prizes gratefully received
To book your team, email Christine Patrick at [email protected].
These one-off sessions are intended for adults who are newly bereaved, in the first 3 months of bereavement. The session offers guidance and understanding to help you navigate your thoughts and feelings in these difficult early moments of grief.
Losing a loved one often brings distress with intense, overwhelming thoughts and feelings and often a sense that we are not coping.
We offer a short presentation about grief and how it may manifest within you and your daily living, along with some guidance on how to care for yourself.
It is a safe space where you may also feel able to share your experiences with others who are on a similar journey.
Sessions are offered bi-monthly at Priscilla Bacon Lodge. It is free to attend and you do not need to have had previous contact with the hospice.
Please email the Bereavement Counselling Team to book your place: [email protected]
Join like-minded professionals for a free business networking event hosted by Norfolk Netwalking. The session offers the chance to connect, recharge, and be inspired in a relaxed, outdoor setting.
After a short introduction and tour of the gardens at Priscilla Bacon Lodge, the group will walk to the UEA Broad, before returning to the hospice for optional refreshments at The Friends Café.
The walk covers around 3 miles on paved and potentially muddy footpaths, so suitable footwear is recommended.
Toilets and parking available at Priscilla Bacon Lodge, (car sharing encouraged).
Please pre-register via the link below, so the organisers can track numbers and contact you in case of any changes.
Join us for our first Comfort Blankets stitch-up day!
Thanks to your incredible support, we’re ready to begin stitching together the beautiful knitted squares you’ve donated to create blankets for our patients.
Whether you’d like to help with sewing, or prefer to keep knitting, everyone is welcome, and there is no need to sign up in advance.
Bring your needles, your squares, or just yourself!
Feel free to drop in any time between 10:00am and 4:00pm and stay for as long as you like. The Friends Café will be open all day for refreshments.
This session replaces our Knit and Natter Group which usually runs from 10:30am – 12:30pm on the first Wednesday of every month.
We look forward to seeing you!
Get In Touch
If you have any questions about the project, please don’t hesitate to contact our Community Fundraiser, Emma Venier, at [email protected], or call 01603 854102.
Our new Knit and Natter Group takes place on the first Wednesday of every month at The Friends Café inside Priscilla Bacon Lodge.
If you’d like to support our Comfort Blankets project whilst attending the group, we’d be thrilled to have your help. You’re also very welcome to bring along your own knitting or crochet projects.
There is no need to sign up, please just come along and join us for a cuppa and some friendly conversation.
We look forward to seeing you!
Get In Touch
If you have any questions about the group, please don’t hesitate to contact our Community Fundraiser, Emma Venier, at [email protected], or call 01603 854102.
We are delighted to have been chosen to benefit from funds raised with the sale of refreshments at this lovely oasis in the heart of Norwich.
Join us for teas, coffees, and a selection of delicious homemade cakes and savouries.
Take a moment to relax in this stunning garden, ideally situated between Chapelfield and the Plantation Garden. This secret haven offers the best view of the Cathedral Church from anywhere in the city. It has become both a welcoming social hub for the parish community, and peaceful space for quiet contemplation.
There will be a performance from The Norwich Choir at 2:00pm.
Raffle to win a Tower Tour at the Cathedral.
- Free entry
- Limited on-site parking, (due to mass); single line parking on Earlham Road
- Nearby car parks: Bethel Street, Chantry Place, and Bignold School
- Fully wheelchair accessible
- Toilets and accessible toilets available
- Dogs welcome in both the café and gardens
Theme – Bee Bricks
This workshop will include activities such as:
- Making ‘bee bricks’, (a habitat for solitary bees), from natural materials
- Helping to create instructions, so others can make their own bee bricks
Join artist Jess Morgan and our Head Gardener, Jack Mackenzie, for monthly art workshops in the garden, celebrating the positive effects that gardening, creativity, and the natural environment can have on personal well-being.
Our workshops are inclusive and open to all, offering the opportunity to discover and engage with nature in a relaxed and welcoming environment. You will be guided through the gardens at Priscilla Bacon Lodge during a series of unique, creative workshops focusing on colour, light, texture, movement, and perspective.
The events will cover a range of activities including drawing, painting, writing, printmaking, and photography, through the use of simple resources that can be taken away to continue work in your own time.
Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear, as most sessions will be outdoors.
The Friends Café will be open for refreshments and toilet facilities are available.
To help us to plan for numbers, please book your free place.
Theme – Lino Print
This workshop will include activities such as:
- Creating prints using ink pads or rollers
Join artist Jess Morgan and our Head Gardener, Jack Mackenzie, for monthly art workshops in the garden, celebrating the positive effects that gardening, creativity, and the natural environment can have on personal well-being.
Our workshops are inclusive and open to all, offering the opportunity to discover and engage with nature in a relaxed and welcoming environment. You will be guided through the gardens at Priscilla Bacon Lodge during a series of unique, creative workshops focusing on colour, light, texture, movement, and perspective.
The events will cover a range of activities including drawing, painting, writing, printmaking, and photography, through the use of simple resources that can be taken away to continue work in your own time.
Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear, as most sessions will be outdoors.
The Friends Café will be open for refreshments and toilet facilities are available.
To help us to plan for numbers, please book your free place.
Theme – Myth and Symbolism in the Garden
This workshop will include activities such as:
- Modelling and sculpting, taking inspiration from Elisabeth Frink’s ‘Green Man’ images
Join artist Jess Morgan and our Head Gardener, Jack Mackenzie, for monthly art workshops in the garden, celebrating the positive effects that gardening, creativity, and the natural environment can have on personal well-being.
Our workshops are inclusive and open to all, offering the opportunity to discover and engage with nature in a relaxed and welcoming environment. You will be guided through the gardens at Priscilla Bacon Lodge during a series of unique, creative workshops focusing on colour, light, texture, movement, and perspective.
The events will cover a range of activities including drawing, painting, writing, printmaking, and photography, through the use of simple resources that can be taken away to continue work in your own time.
Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear, as most sessions will be outdoors.
The Friends Café will be open for refreshments and toilet facilities are available.
To help us to plan for numbers, please book your free place.
Theme – Paper-Making Using Botanicals
This workshop will include activities such as:
- Making a deckle frame
- Creating paper from pulp and adding botanicals from the garden
- Collaging with paper
Join artist Jess Morgan and our Head Gardener, Jack Mackenzie, for monthly art workshops in the garden, celebrating the positive effects that gardening, creativity, and the natural environment can have on personal well-being.
Our workshops are inclusive and open to all, offering the opportunity to discover and engage with nature in a relaxed and welcoming environment. You will be guided through the gardens at Priscilla Bacon Lodge during a series of unique, creative workshops focusing on colour, light, texture, movement, and perspective.
The events will cover a range of activities including drawing, painting, writing, printmaking, and photography, through the use of simple resources that can be taken away to continue work in your own time.
Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear, as most sessions will be outdoors.
The Friends Café will be open for refreshments and toilet facilities are available.
To help us to plan for numbers, please book your free place.
These one-off sessions are intended for adults who are newly bereaved, in the first 3 months of bereavement. The session offers guidance and understanding to help you navigate your thoughts and feelings in these difficult early moments of grief.
Losing a loved one often brings distress with intense, overwhelming thoughts and feelings and often a sense that we are not coping.
We offer a short presentation about grief and how it may manifest within you and your daily living, along with some guidance on how to care for yourself.
It is a safe space where you may also feel able to share your experiences with others who are on a similar journey.
Sessions are offered bi-monthly at Priscilla Bacon Lodge. It is free to attend and you do not need to have had previous contact with the hospice.
Please email the Bereavement Counselling Team to book your place: [email protected]
We have 10 FREE charity places available for the Larking Gowen Norwich Half Marathon, open to anyone who can pledge to raise a minimum of £150.00 in sponsorship.
Every penny raised will help us continue enhancing care for patients and their loved ones at Priscilla Bacon Lodge.
By joining our team, you will receive:
- A free branded running t-shirt
- A fundraising pack
- Ongoing support from our friendly fundraising team
To request your free place, email our Community Fundraiser, Emma Venier, at [email protected] or call 01603 854102.
Organised by Good Running Events, this popular race returns to the East Anglian running calendar for 2025, with a beautiful route through the heart of the Norfolk countryside.
- Registration and Event Village opens: 8:00am
- Half Marathon Start: 10:00am
- Event Close: 1:30pm
Age limit 17 years+
All runners will receive a bespoke medal and goodie bag. The event is chip timed, and trophies are awarded to the top 3 male and female runners, and the first male and female in each age category.
The course features fully closed roads and is clearly marshalled.
Unfortunately, no pets, prams or wheelchairs are permitted.
Cut-off time: 3.5 hours, to allow roads to be reopened.
We are thrilled to have been offered the chance to host an Open Garden event at the Plantation Garden for the second year running.
Please come and join us for tea, coffee, cold drinks, and a selection of delicious homemade cakes and savouries. The proceeds will help us to enhance care for patients and their loved ones at Priscilla Bacon Lodge.
Entry to the garden costs £2.00, which can be paid into the honesty box in the entrance area. Please be aware these funds go to the Plantation Garden. Accompanied under 16s may enter for free.
One of Norwich’s great treasures, the Plantation Garden is a 3 acre Grade II English Heritage registered garden established over 100 years ago in an abandoned chalk quarry, 600 yards from the city centre. Also referred to by locals as Norwich’s Secret Garden, it’s tucked away beside the Roman Catholic Cathedral on Earlham Road. It’s an oasis of calm in Norwich city centre.
Find a huge gothic fountain, flower beds, lawns, Italianate terrace, ‘Medieval’ terrace wall, woodland walkways, 10 metre long Victorian-style greenhouse and rustic bridge. The garden is heavily wooded and provides a habitat for wildlife, making it a haven of peace and tranquillity and a glimpse into a bygone age.
Our Summer Fair is back! Come and enjoy a fun-filled day, whilst helping us raise funds to enhance care for patients and their loved ones.
This year’s event is kindly sponsored by Birchwood Energy and we are truly grateful for their support.
Stalls:
- Tarina’s Handmade with Love – local jams and preserves
- Jan’s Stained Glass – handmade stained glass creations
- Paul Macro – local photography
- Coastal Shore Designs – sea glass jewellery
- Paper & Clay – handmade ceramics inspired by nature and gardening
- Staithe Farm Bee Keeping – local honey
- Richard Poole – handmade local woodcraft gifts and garden accessories
- Heavenly & Earth – candles and diffusers
- Cake stall – run by the nursing team
- Priscilla Bacon Retail pop-up – clothing, accessories and much more!
- Priscilla Bacon Lodge Day Services – crafts made by patients and nurses
- Priscilla Bacon Lodge Garden Volunteers – plants
Games and activities:
- The Grand Summer Prize Draw – drawn at 2:30pm. Tickets are on sale now in The Friends Café, or buy them at the event until 2:00pm.
- Tombola
- Teddy tombola
- Guess the name of the teddy
- “Water or wine?”
- Crockery smash
- Fla-Ping-Go
- Hook a duck
- Face painting
- Garden games – including beanbag toss, splat the rat, and tic-tac-toe
- Hang a heart – on our rose arbour, to remember a loved one
The Friends Café will be serving up BBQ delights, scrumptious cakes and refreshing drinks.
PLEASE NOTE: Disabled car parking only on-site. All other visitors, please follow signage from our car park entrance straight ahead to the NNUH staff car park, which they are kindly allowing us the use of. There are plenty of spaces.
All proceeds from this event will support Priscilla Bacon Hospice Charity. Registered Charity No. 1166579 | Company No. 09832765.
Theme – Drawing and Mark-Making
This workshop will include activities such as:
- Continuous line drawing
- Speed drawing
- Back to back drawing
- Drawing with ink and brushes made from things found in the garden
- Still life drawing
Join artist Jess Morgan and our Head Gardener, Jack Mackenzie, for monthly art workshops in the garden, celebrating the positive effects that gardening, creativity, and the natural environment can have on personal well-being.
Our workshops are inclusive and open to all, offering the opportunity to discover and engage with nature in a relaxed and welcoming environment. You will be guided through the gardens at Priscilla Bacon Lodge during a series of unique, creative workshops focusing on colour, light, texture, movement, and perspective.
The events will cover a range of activities including drawing, painting, writing, printmaking, and photography, through the use of simple resources that can be taken away to continue work in your own time.
Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear, as most sessions will be outdoors.
The Friends Café will be open for refreshments and toilet facilities are available.
To help us to plan for numbers, please book your free place.
The Norwich City Community Sports Foundation’s annual 10km event, Run Norwich, returns for its 10th year on Sunday 7th September 2025.
The award-winning road race takes place in the heart of Norwich’s beautiful and historic city centre. Capacity for the event is set at 8,500 entrants and general entry opens at 9:00am on Wednesday 5th March here.
If you secure a place and would like to use it to fundraise for the Priscilla Bacon Hospice Charity, we would be delighted to have you on our team! Please get in touch with our Community Fundraiser, Emma, at [email protected].
We will supply you with a free fundraising pack, a branded t-shirt or vest to run in, and support you every step of the way with your fundraising!
“We had a fantastic time completing the 5K inflatable run, and even better, it supported the Priscilla Bacon Hospice Charity! The numerous obstacle courses made it feel like we weren’t running 5 kilometres. After our team regrouped at the finish line, we agreed that we would have to do this again next year!”
Shane Julian, 2024 participant
“We all had a blast, thank you to all who organised the event!”
Emma Cole, 2024 participant
