A donation of £3,342 has been made to St Mary’s Hospice, thanks to funding from the Roselands Trust. St Mary’s Hospice has purchased a a Raizer II Emergency Lifting Chair for use at its Living Well Centre in Barrow with the generous donation from the Roselands Trust, following an application by staff from the hospice. …
This year’s St Mary’s Hospice’s Battle to Succeed has been a fantastic success and raised vital funds thanks to schools and businesses taking part in an “Apprentice” style challenge. Schools taking part in 2022 are Furness Academy, George Hastwell, Newbridge House School and Ulverston Victoria High School. With each of the schools being paired with …
Players from the Club, the Community Trust and the Academy played against members from Barrow and District Junior League from 3pm on Saturday 14th to Sunday 15th May in an epic 24 hour match! With over a fantastic £4,900 netted, which is being split evenly between St Mary’s Hospice and funds to improve football facilities …
National Nurses’ Day is the perfect opportunity to thank and celebrate everyone who makes our hospice such a wonderful, welcoming and professional place for patients and their families. Today focuses on all the nursing and medical team for all the wonderful compassionate care delivering care to patients on a daily basis. There are many ways …
Here’s an insight from our fantastic Retail team how one supporter was inspired by Flog it! … Have a rummage for us! Do you know what you have stored in your attic…garage…cellar… spare room …under the bed? Let me share a true story… A St Mary’s supporter watching the TV show Flog It suddenly got very …
Dying Matters Awareness Week, 2-6 May, is our chance to get our community talking about dying and grief. We want everyone to be #InAGoodPlace when they die – physically, emotionally, financially, spiritually, and crucially, with the right care and support. St Mary’s Hospice has supporting services at every stage to help patients and their loved …
We are looking for 500 people from across Furness and South Lakes to become ‘hospice heroes’ — by sponsoring one of our nurses. St Mary’s nurses are out and about in every town and village across Furness and South Lakes, providing care for people with life limiting illness in their own homes, 365-days-a-year, as well …
St Mary’s Hospice has teamed up with Barrow Raiders to launch an exciting new fundraising appeal. The Hospice looks after people in every town and village across Furness, South Lakes and all the way up the Duddon Valley to Millom. It costs more than £3.5m to provide the services they deliver — with just 20% …
Just a few hours supporting a primary school taking part in Bright Stars can transform the ideas of young pupils and get them excited about business in Cumbria. That’s the message going out to companies and organisations from the Centre for Leadership Performance which needs more companies to partner pupils at primary schools across the …
On 23 March, let’s take time to connect, supporting the millions of people who are grieving, and remembering the family, friends, neighbours and colleagues we’ve lost during the pandemic. Whether sudden or expected, the death of someone close to us can be devastating. We will all feel the pain of grief at some point in …
