Anne Robson Trust Charity News
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It’s Time to Talk
One of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is that collectively there will be more conversations about death and dying. They will be challenging conversations because even though death is…
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Message To A Loved One Service
Anne Robson Trust and Princess Alexandra Hospital partnership launches a messaging service to enable families to contact their loved ones in hospital during the Covid-19 outbreak. An Interview on BBC…
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Support for our work by The National Lottery Community Fund – on BBC Radio Norfolk
Following a press release by the National Lottery announcing that ART has been awarded funding to support work across East Anglia – BBC Radio Norfolk invited ART Director, Liz Pryor,…
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Anne Robson Trust Receives National Lottery Funding
The Anne Robson Trust has received £95,000 of National Lottery funding to support its work in providing one-to-one compassionate listening, comfort and companionship to people nearing the end of their…
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Autumn 2019 Patient Experience Library Newsletter
The Anne Robson Trust are proud to feature in the latest edition of the Patient Experience Library newsletter. Human experience matters most “You can argue with figures and statistics, but…
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Local Hospital & Charity Partnership Leads The Way for End of Life Care
Contact: Liz Pryor, liz@annerobsontrust.org.uk or 07971 817552 Contact: Nicki Harris, nicolette.harris1@nhs.net or 01279 827467 In partnership with The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT), The Anne Robson Trust this…
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Dying Matters Week 2019
Dying Matters Week 2019 is looking like it’s going to be a busy one for The Anne Robson Trust! We are very excited to be fully booked during Dying…
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Spotlight On Roger Mawle
1. WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT IS YOUR ROLE IN ART? My name is Roger Mawle and I am very proud to have recently been appointed as a Trustee of the Anne…
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Why I Love My Job: Liz Pryor on John’s Campaign
Liz Pryor, Director of The Anne Robson Trust, shares the inspiring story of how, in the wake of an experience that shouldn’t have happened, she has worked for change to…
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2018…. We made it through our first year!
Amazingly, it has just been the ninth anniversary of the death of my mother, Anne Robson. I can’t quite believe that it’s been so long… but then I think about…
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Spotlight on Professor Nancy Fontaine
Each Newsletter we will be shining the spotlight on someone connected with our organisation, and next up it’s Professor Nancy Fontaine… Who are you and how are you connected…
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Actively Dying: What Does it Mean?
You may have listened to the feature about our work on BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours programme, which aired on Friday 14th September, 2018 (listen again here). A number…
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A Squeezed Hand and a Smile
Our ART Butterfly Volunteers provide compassionate listening, comfort and companionship for patients in the last few days and hours of life, many of whom have few or no visitors, and…
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6 Months and Counting
Since starting work at The Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow in mid January 2018 – exactly 6 months ago this week – our fantastic team of ART Butterfly Volunteers have provided:…
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Why are we so passionate about what we do?
If you are wondering why the team at ART are so passionate about providing compassionate care to hospital patients in the last days and hours of their life, read on. Below…
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St. Clare Hospice
The Team at ART are always on the look out for similar schemes to ART Butterfly Volunteers, and this week Liz met St Clare Hospice CEO, Sarah Thompson, and Stacey…
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The ART of Compassion
An exciting week at the Anne Robson Trust… Our new volunteer Claire started working with Liz last Monday to help with admin and general office stuff… there is so much…
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Butterfly Volunteers: Truly Inspirational
Working with volunteers who support people facing the end of their life is such an inspiration. When I first started doing this work in early 2016 I was worried that…
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The Month It All Started
What an absolutely amazing first 3 weeks for Butterfly Volunteers at The Princess Alexandra Hospital…. 59 individual visits to patients in the last days of their life 27 visits to…
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Half of All Deaths Occur in Hospitals
Nearly half of all deaths in England occur in hospitals – 223,007 out of a total of 469,975 in 2014. For this reason, trust boards, managers and clinicians should…
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Jo’s Story
Why I’m so passionate about the Anne Robson Trust I feel as if the skills and experience I have built up over the years have all been leading to my…
