Charity has super plans for store’s reopening We are all ready to leap out of lockdown and step into Christmas with extra Sunday opening hours for its high street shops. The pandemic in March forced us to close all 28 of our fundraising shops until the summer. And when the second English lockdown struck, we… Read more »
We have launched a brand new Christmas product and are urging Christmas shoppers to turn virtual gifts bought from our website into real help for families living with incurable illness. We been hit hard by the Coronavirus pandemic and face a £500,000 fundraising deficit. All our high street shops were closed for a second time when England… Read more »
Kind-hearted and green-fingered customers at a Telford garden centre have raised £2,000. Lakeside Garden Centre in Priorslee stocked up on ‘Rainbow’ narcissi bulbs and made the decision to sell them in aid of us. And they never guessed their venture would be such a blooming success. The packets of bulbs flew off the shelves as… Read more »
Fundraising pensioner beats lockdown by going online A well-known Shrewsbury pensioner, who has raised thousands of pounds for us, has swapped her collection bucket for a mousemat and turned to the internet to fundraise. For more than 20 years, the Beharrell family have raised thousands of pounds for us in donations from shoppers visiting Shrewsbury’s… Read more »
Latest lockdown measures have left us reeling as we have been forced to close all our shops for a second time and we face more restrictions on our fundraising. We have to raise more than £8 million a year from the public to provide our services. Devastated Our finances were devastated by the spring lockdown,… Read more »
An extra special guest arrived at our hospice this week. Pip Haywood, his mum Becki and brother Oskar dropped by after being specially chosen to receive one of our brand-new robins. Following the success of our sell-out ironwork forget-me-nots back in 2016, we have launched our seasonal hand-painted keepsakes. Presented Pip, 10 was presented with… Read more »
Our charity stalwarts are celebrating a combined 915 years of volunteering. We presented 74 of our volunteers with certificates and badges for their long service and dedication – among them are five who have given up their time for 30 years. Another six have reached the 25-year mark, eight have helped for two decades, six… Read more »
Five men from Shrewsbury have almost quintupled their original fundraising target for us after we cared for their friends. And on Tuesday they presented us with a cheque for £9,348.55 – almost five times their £2,000 goal – during Hospice Care Week which celebrates the hard work of the sector. Adam Harris, Ryan Tisdale, Michael… Read more »
We’ve launched our Christmas raffle and we’re hoping our nurse’s personal appeal for support will ensure it’s a success. We use our special raffle and weekly lottery to raise almost £1 million a year towards care – a fundraising source made even more important by the impact of lockdown and pandemic restrictions as people can… Read more »
Two experienced nurses from Shrewsbury have washed their scrubs for the last time after dedicating a combined 51 years caring for patients with incurable illness. Caring duo Christine Johnson, 61, and Jan Smith, 56, have both retired from their posts. Christine has been with us from the start, joining in 1989 when our first ward… Read more »
