The new St Barnabas grounds and gardens

St Barnabas House hospice is a place of care, dignity and peace. Our new hospice building has been designed to provide the best environment for our patients, their families and friends.

But the new St Barnabas is not just a building. Our service extends across our whole site, and begins the moment the patient turns from the road into our new grounds and gardens.

So, just as we have worked to make the building the best it can possibly
be, so we are determined that the environment in which it sits - the
grounds and gardens - should match that aspiration.

The grounds and gardens are important to our patients. For those who come to our Day Hospice, they are an opportunity to become actively involved with the planting and care of the garden - real, natural therapy that many simply cannot access elsewhere.

For our in-patients, the gardens are a place for peace and reflection, and somewhere to spend precious time with loved ones. For many families,
St Barnabas is a place where they will be together for the last time: we want to provide these families with surroundings that they deserve, and that give them good, positive memories in years to come.

We ask everyone who supports St Barnabas to help us deliver this vision for our patients. We believe they are worth the effort and the expense, and we hope you agree.

Our vision

The development of St Barnabas on our new site gave us a wonderful opportunity to provide a new, much better setting for our hospice care. At 5.5 acres, the new site is more than twice the size of the old St Barnabas, which gave us scope to create the perfect environment for the new hospice.

The new St Barnabas hospice will provide an oasis of calm for our patients and their families. Traffic noise will be screened by banks built up against the road. The grounds and gardens will provide everyone who comes to St Barnabas with a profusion of sights, sounds and scents.

The site is separated into two distinct areas. Firstly, there are the external grounds, which will be accessible to all patients, visitors, staff and volunteers. Secondly, there are the patient gardens, which will only be used by patients and visiting families and friends.

These two areas are separated by a large natural hedge which will provide peace, shelter and privacy for our patients and also security for the hospice itself.

The grounds have been designed to represent the best of the Sussex countryside in microcosm. Most of the plants and shrubs we will be using are native to Sussex and will be immediately familiar to the local people who will use the hospice.

How you can help create the new grounds and gardens

You can help us to achieve our vision for the new gardens by making a donation to cover the cost of one or more of the plants. Read*more*-->