St Mary’s delight with success at national Charity Governance awards

St Mary’s Hospice is delighted to share our success at the Charity Governance Awards 2020. St Mary’s won the award for Improving Project with our Living Well project. “Judges admired the open and collaborative approach to reporting and continuous learning that the board demonstrated. The spirit of collaboration was particularly evident in the development of …

Shining a light on good governance across the UK – St Mary’s has been shortlisted!

The Charity Governance Awards is an exciting not-for-profit initiative created to celebrate outstanding governance and trusteeship in charities across the UK, allowing large and small not-for-profit organisations to inspire and learn from one another. Charity Governance Awards: “We all know that effective governance makes a difference. By sharing examples of inspirational trustees and brilliant boards …

St Mary’s Hospice has received vital oxygen therapy equipment thanks to a donation by Forge

St Mary’s Hospice, needed to update their equipment with a new oxygen concentrator, a machine that produces oxygen from air for patients with breathing difficulties. And when local LED solutions manufacturer Forge found out, owner Peter Barton stepped into action by donating two machines. Peter Barton, Forge: “We are delighted they are going to be …

Good Grief! It’s Dying Matters week

Dying Matters is a national campaign that started in 2010. Each year hundreds of events take place as part of Dying Matters Awareness Week, which this year runs from May 13-19. The campaign aims to encourage people to become more comfortable talking about death and grief, and to sort out the practical issues about their …

Thank you to our 2.6 challenge champions!

We asked our supporters to get involved with the 2.6 Challenge – and, as always, they didn’t let us down! Joining in with the national campaign to ‘save the Uk’s charities’, our supporters did a variety of extraordinary challenges to raise funds for St Mary’s whilst on lockdown. An amazing £9,000 has been raised by …