Saint Catherine’s Hospice was developed after an initial meeting of the three ‘founding fathers’ in 1981.  Mr. David Fletcher, a surgeon at Scarborough hospital, Brian Fitzpatrick a Methodist minister and Dr. Tony Chico a GP, set about finding the trustees who worked with them to make their dream a reality. Such was the overwhelming response of local people that within three years of the idea first being conceived, the Hospice was welcoming its first patients.

Other local people and companies were recruited to the cause and in 1983 the ‘dream came true’ when the Hospice building at 137 Scalby Road was purchased in readiness for conversion.  It was opened in April 1985 by Princess Margaret.

Hospice building at 137 Scalby Road

Since then Saint Catherine’s Hospice has developed and extended its services to meet the needs of its patients and to support their families. By the late 1990’s the time came to extend and improve the quality of all Saint Catherine’s work.  The hospice had out grown its existing site so relocation to a purpose built new, development was planned.