Funding Boost for Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Care

Published on: 17 Feb, 2026
Updated on: 17 Feb, 2026

Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Care, has been pledged £25,ooo a year for three years by the Zurich Community Trust.

It will help fund the hospice’s palliative and end of life care.

It has three sites, two in Farnham, and The Beacon Centre on the site of the Royal Surrey Hospital in Guildford.

Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Care’s The Beacon Centre.

Zurich Community Trust is the charitable arm of Zurich Insurance UK, that partners with communities across the UK.

In 2025, the trust worked with the Charities Aid Foundation to identify organisations near every Zurich UK office.

Employees were invited to vote for their preferred charities, with the top choices becoming their new local partners.

This year, staff in its Farnborough office selected Phyllis Tuckwell as one of two charity partners.

Phyllis Tuckwell provides hospice care for patients and families in West Surrey and North-East Hampshire who are living with an advanced or terminal illness, such as cancer.

Every day it supports more than 250 patients, relatives and carers, through medical and nursing care, therapies, counselling, social work advice and practical support.

As the NHS and the government only cover around 25% of its costs, it has to raise more than £25,000 every day to be able to offer all its services, which it provides free of charge to its patients and their families and carers.

£5,000 of the annual funding from Zurich will be used for Phyllis Tuckwell’s staff training and wellbeing.

£20,000 is enough to cover the cost of Phyllis Tuckwell’s Living Well service for over a week.

Supporting more than 520 patients a year, the Living Well service provides individual and group sessions and activities, led by nurses, therapists, rehabilitation assistants and counsellors, which support patients to manage their symptoms and live life as fully and independently as they can for as long as possible.

The service also supports their relatives and carers too, both during their loved one’s illness and into bereavement.

Eleanor Stanley, corporate fundraiser at Phyllis Tuckwell, said: “We’d like to say a huge thank you to Zurich and to all of the staff at its Farnborough office who voted for us.

“This is an incredible amount of money which will make a big difference to the patients and families that we care for, and to our staff.”

To find out more about how a business or employer can support Phyllis Tuckwell, visit www.pth.org.uk/support-us/fundraising/business