We would like to take a moment to shine a spotlight on one of the schools taking part in this year’s Battle To Succeed programme. Six groups at Furness Academy are working hard on devising and implementing various fundraising initiatives, using the £30 seed funding from their corporate partner Ørsted. These ideas include selling Lego …
St Mary’s Hospice’s gardening club meets every Tuesday 10am to 12pm, from 4th April through to September. The Forget Me Not gardening club is for anyone bereaved or facing bereavement to come along, chat, learn new gardening skills, have a cuppa or simply just be. The club is run by the Family and Bereavement Support …
Thursday 23rd March 2023 is the third UK National Day of Reflection. This unique day is an opportunity to remember our loved ones who’ve died, support people that are grieving, and connect with each other. This year Marie Curie is asking organisations to come together and create a Wall of Reflection. The walls will be …
Mother’s Day can be hard for bereaved people, especially with all the constant reminders we see and hear of this special day. It can create a renewed sense of grief for anybody not able to celebrate the day with their loved ones in the way they did before their loss. We hope that anybody grieving …
St Mary’s Hospice is delighted to receive a very generous donation of £1000 from the talented Bay Community Singers, a community choir group based in Grange-Over-Sands. The money donated, raised from a concert in December, will pay for the equivalent of 50 bereavement sessions, 40 Hospice at Home night sits or 100 homecooked meals for …
The cost of living crisis could have a devastating impact on hospices in the UK, and the people that they care for. Hospice UK is calling for immediate action from the UK Government to ensure that hospices can continue to deliver vital services to those in need. For St Mary’s Hospice, Karl Connor, said: “The …
St Mary’s Hospice is launching new work aimed at opening the doors to hospice care wider than ever before. The Compassionate Communities project has been designed following local and national research showing that people in under-represented groups still find it difficult to access hospice care. This might mean they are missing out on the first-class …
Unfortunately due to a Covid outbreak at St Mary’s Hospice we have had to cancel the last of our Light up a Life services scheduled to take place at Cartmel Priory this Sunday. We never like to cancel any of our events, but in this instance the safety of our participants and staff is paramount. …
Well done to Ricky who has just successfully completed the Lands’ End to John O’ Groats Challenge, by walking 874 miles this year. Ricky has timed this challenge to finish on 16th October which is his late wife – Marie’s birthday, and marks 2 years since Marie was admitted to St Mary’s on her birthday, …
Brogan is part of our fantastic team on St Mary’s In-Patient Unit. Brogan, 26, recently graduated from University after completing her FdSc Nursing Associate Degree, having started at St Mary’s as a health care assistant. She said: “It was really hard work, but I’m proud of myself. I wouldn’t have got through it without the …
