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Lewis-Manning Hospice in Poole, Dorset, is a registered charity (charity number: 1120193) cares for more than 650 people with life-threatening illnesses.

It aims to give practical physical and emotional support to help improve the quality of the lives of both those who are ill and their relatives and friends.

Funding
A 1/3 of its funding comes from the NHS Bournemouth and Poole.

Mrs Marjorie Lewis-Manning
Mrs Marjorie Lewis-Manning left her home to be a hospice.

20th anniversary
The hospice was founded in 1992 and will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2012.

Building a new hospice
The charity is on course to move into a £2.5million re-built home at Evening Hill in April 2012, when it will be able to double the number of people it cares for to 1,200.

Patients will be able to stay overnight for the first time in en suite bedrooms, get treatment in purpose-built clinics and develop their mobility in a gym. The new hospice will provide all the services it does now – a day hospice, lymphoedema and breathlessness clinics, fatigue and anxiety management and carers’ support. Its improved day care facilities will also include a gymnasium.

With the addition of en suite bedrooms allowing overnight stays for the first time, the charity will also be able to provide much needed respite care, intensive rehabilitation and end of life care. The hospice continues to operate out of a temporary base at the Fourways Centre in Constitution Hill Road in Poole.

Fiona Castle
Fiona Castle, widow to the TV entertainer Roy Castle is patron to the Lewis-Manning Hospice Breathlessness Clinic.

Guinness World Records
In 2009 Lewis-Manning Hospice attempted to beat the Guinness World Record of building more than 520 sandcastles in one hour. Lewis-Manning Hospice joined forces with the Wessex Autistic to break another Guinness World Record in 2011. Around 750 people participated in the Zumba Smash (biggest Zumba class attempt). Unfortunately they didn’t break the world record but will attempt it again in 2012.