Our purpose is to provide compassionate, specialised end of life care for patients, their families and carers whilst guaranteeing our high-quality standards. Together with our local community in Cornwall, we will continue to make everyday matter.
In April 2006, the two charities running Mount Edgcumbe Hospice and St Julia’s Hospice formerly merged into the single charity known now as Cornwall Hospice Care, a truly Cornish charity.
The name was chosen to reflect better the breadth of services the charity offers to patients and their families throughout the community of Cornwall, not just at the hospices but also in hospitals and nursing homes and the community itself.
We regularly consider and review our purpose and how our charity works to achieve our goals, identifying the challenges we face and looking to our strengths to help us. This page reflects our purpose, values and ambitions for 2023 to 2028.
You can find out more about the way our charity works on our Governance & reports page on this website.
We’ll work together to achieve our purpose by following our values, which are:
the quality of being gentle, kind, caring and helpful.
being honest and having strong moral principles. A person with integrity behaves professionally and ethically at all times and in all workplaces.
valuing everyone who works or volunteers for our charity or uses our services, giving us all the information, tools, independence and freedom to achieve.
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To work in partnership to grow our charity for the future, ensuring close working relationships across all our departments. We will also continue to work collaboratively with our external partners.
To develop our understanding and education to ensure all our staff and volunteers and, where relevant, those from our external partners have the knowledge, skills and competencies to fulfil their roles.
Raise sufficient funds to protect and grow our hospice services through a range of income-generation activities.
To work towards lowering our environmental impact by implementing, where possible, sustainable systems and processes in all areas of the charity’s operations.
To be innovative in our areas, teams and across the charity to deliver continuous improvement in all we do.
We recognise that alongside the purpose, values and ambitions, our Cornish charity faces several significant challenges whilst we work towards our goals:
Increased demand for services
Securing and retaining talent
Tackling the challenging economy
Lowering our environmental impact
Changing organisational landscape
