Our Founder and CEO, Liz Pryor was awarded the Member of the British Empire Medal (MBE), for services to end-of-life care.
Loneliness in the last days of life
As part of Mental Health Awareness Week 2022, our founder and CEO Liz Pryor explores this year’s theme of loneliness and how it can effect the end of a person’s life…
Why is it so important to talk to your family about your wishes, should the worst happen?
In the run up to Dying Matters Awareness Week 2022 (2nd – 6th May), our CEO Liz Pryor explores why we find talking about death and dying so difficult…
The Anne Robson Trust Receives Award From Prime Minister
Liz is the founder of the ‘Anne Robson Trust’ which coordinates volunteer visits to hospitals to offer company and comfort to patients at the end of their lives.
The Anne Robson Trust on BBC Radio 4
The Anne Robson Trust Founder and Director, Liz Pryor, took to the radio recently with a feature on BBC Radio 4 current affairs programme You & Yours.
Nursing Times Article: No One Should Die Alone
We are very lucky to work in partnership with the Princess Alexandra Hospital and the wonderfully literate Shahid Sardar, Associate Director of Patient Experience.
A Letter To My Grandchildren
We are constantly humbled by the amazing work of the Butterfly Volunteers. A member of one of the teams recently told us about a letter he helped a patient to write to her Grandchildren in the days before she died.
Anne Robson Trust Winners of Markel 3rd Sector Care Award
We were delighted to be announced as the winners of the Markel 3rd Sector Care, End of Life Care Award 2019.
The Anne Robson Trust Hits the National Press
Bel Mooney writes a column for the Daily Mail and met with the Anne Robson Trust Team earlier in the month at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, home to one of our first Butterfly Volunteer projects.
Fab NHS Stuff WINNERS
Its absolutely amazing to receive national recognition for our charity so quickly – our work is entirely funded by voluntary donations. Most importantly, more people have support in the last days and hours of their lives.
Actively Dying: What Does it Mean?
A number of people have asked us recently what it means when a doctor tells you someone is actively dying.
Surely that’s what Hospices do?
When I speak to people about the work we do at the Anne Robson Trust often the response is – “don’t nurses do that?”