Sue Manton

GP Education Evening – Little Haven Palliative Care – Dr Matthew Cooper SCSPCS

June 2025 Lenie Carswell is a remarkable woman—quiet, soft-spoken, fiercely independent, resilient, tough, and funny! She gets things done and has developed lifelong friendships. Lenie, who turned 79 in May, has had an interesting life.  She is a Life Member of Little Haven Palliative Care and has been a Little Haven volunteer for over 30

Celebrating Compassion & Expertise on International Nurses Day & National Palliative Care Week Today, we recognize the incredible nurses and palliative care teams who dedicate their lives to ensuring comfort, dignity, and expert medical care for those in their final chapter. In Gympie, we are beyond fortunate to have Little Haven and the best nurses

Little Haven currently has a position available for a Registered Nurse / Clinical Nurse who has Palliative Care or recent Community Nursing experience to join our highly respected Community Palliative Care team.

The Board of Little Haven Palliative Care Inc. invites all members and community supporters to attend our 2024 Annual General Meeting Date:         Wednesday, October 23rd 2024 Time:        Drinks and Nibbles from 6.00pm                    Meeting 6.45pm—7.45pm                    Followed by hot supper Place:        Little Haven Centre, 14 Henry Street, Gympie RSVP: If you wish to attend please

A year long research project on Little Haven’s unique Model of Community Based Palliative Care, done by the UniSC team has resulted in the publishing of a paper in leading and respected peer reviewed international medical / palliative care journal.

After 16+ years with Little Haven Carolyn Mandersloot is heading to Charleville and her new role as Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Coordinator with South West Health Qld. Watch her video.

Let me tell you a story that illustrates how a holistic view of a patient’s mind, body, and soul can positively impact their end-of-life story. We had a patient with advanced end-stage renal failure.

People often ask us “How do you do what you do?” “Why? It must be awful seeing death every day….” I accept that we are a unique band of nurses, its true. We’re deep emotional creatures. Armed with a common thread of quirky humour and an extensive clinical knowledge of our field.

It is with sadness we announce Lou’s passing on March 29th, 2024. In recognition of Lou’s contribution to Little Haven as our first community nurse, we invite all members of Little Haven to attend her funeral service to be held at the Gympie Crematorium tomorrow – Wednesday April 10th at 10am. Some years ago Lou

March 2024 marks 10 years since Little Haven Palliative Care and Cancer Support took a chance on me and I began a career in Palliative Care. I knew within months that I had found my nursing niche.

Monster Book Sale June 15th & 16th Where: The Senior Citizens Hall, Mellor Street, GympieWhen: Saturday 15th June 2024 8am to 15.30pm and Sunday 16th June 9am to 2pm. Little Haven volunteers have been busily sorting through thousands of books generously donated by the local community for Gympie’s BIGGEST ANNUAL SECOND HAND BOOKSALE. The Little Haven Monster

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Sunday the 22nd of October saw the inaugural ‘Doing it for Toots’ Little Haven Palliative Care Charity Day at Gunabul Homestead. It was a beautiful day, with over 100 players and raising over $17,000. Thank you, Rob, Debbie, Bill, all of your helpers, the Gunabul Homestead team and the 40 plus very generous business sponsors.

Great turnout for the Little Haven AGM on Wednesday night the 11th October 2023. Lovely to see so many of the team, volunteers and community supporters coming along for this very social night. Thank you to all the presenters for your informative reports. Well done us on getting the business side of the meeting wrapped

Doing it for “Toots” Charity Golf Day to be held at Gunabul Homestead Golf Course & Country Club on Sunday the 22nd of October.

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On Saturday evening the 3rd of June, Little Haven’s CEO Sue Manton attended the 43rd Changeover Dinner of the Lions Club of Gympie South. The event was held at the Gympie South Bowls Club, with lovely dinner prepared and served by the dedicated ladies from the Bowls Club.

On Friday the 26th November, at Little Haven’s we hosted a farewell gathering for our beautiful Narelle Griffiths. Narelle is retiring after 15 years as Little Haven’s Administration officer, our finance officer, and our go-to for anything officer. Little Haven has grown a lot in those 15 years as did Narelle’s role and responsibilities. We

Be an initial donor to our fundraising drive for a standalone community hospice. Donate $100 or more and you’ll receive a glorious standard rose with Ruby Red flowers.

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February 2022 Gympie Flood at 23 Metres was the biggest flood in Gympie since 1883. The Little Haven Market Place was submerged to the ceiling height of the street-level shop. Below is the timeline and pictures of the flood, the clean-up, and the grand reopening. The Flood is coming. Friday 25th February 2022 Thank you

We are looking for a committed new member to join our social work team. The position has above award rate remuneration with salary sacrifice options and flexible working conditions.

We experience blessings in tragedy as well as joy. In this spirit, we invite you to join us on Sunday at Nelson Reserve for our “2021 gratitude walk” honouring our patients and families and offering thanks to a community that supports caring for the terminally ill so they may enjoy the best and longest possible quality

Little Haven now has a new POP UP shop open in The Dolphin Centre at Tin Can Bay – Next door to the NAB. Open from 8am – 1pm daily you will find Diana and volunteers sorting through lots of wonderful hand crafts, jams, pickles, clothes, plants, books and all kind of wonderful bric a

Today (Jan 6th 2021) I went up to the ward to visit a new patient with Bronwyn, who is in the home straight now to retiring. This was not just a new patient but sadly one of our volunteers who had recently had health challenges and been delivered bad news. In the course of the

According to recent research… ‘from improving our health and happiness to promoting a sense of belonging, boosting mood and making friends, the case for volunteering keeps building’. You need only stop in at the Little Haven Market Place at 68a Crescent Rd to see proof of this. My trip last Saturday certainly reinforced it to

Opportunity: Little Haven Palliative Care has an opening for a Registered or Clinical Nurse with relevant palliative care / community health experience to join our highly respected team of caring professionals. Little Haven Palliative Care has a proud history of providing gold standard community based palliative care and bereavement support to families in the picturesque

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To mark the start of National Palliative Care Week we share “Farewelling Phil”. A Eulogy, so beautifully written by Phil’s family and shared here with their permission.

International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world every May 12, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. And today we join in celebrating our amazing Nurses and give thanks for all the valuable work they do for the terminally ill in our community.

Look at this incredible boy, 10 (almost 11) year old Flynn Hutchison, proudly handing over (at a safe social distance) his hard earned money to Little Haven Palliative Care on Friday afternoon.

Check out the Little Haven nurses in their new look ….

Some of you will know Graeme Chisholm as a talented organist, some as a much loved Head Master but to Little Haven he was a Godsend – our biography volunteer. A man with a willing ear and an open heart who over the past 8 years sat with about 50 of our patients, listened to their life stories, put their memories into words and bound them up in a book as a precious keepsake for families.

Attending the funerals and memorial services of patients we’ve cared for is a special and important part of our work. Giving us an opportunity to pay our respects, to acknowledge our own feelings of grief and loss for the person we have come to know and providing valuable insights as we continue our bereavement support for their loved ones.