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Keech Hospice Care
Keech Hospice Care launches first urgent appeal in their 30-year history
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Keech Hospice Care, who celebrate 30 years of caring this year, are facing huge funding shortfalls as lockdown continues to have a devastating impact on the charity’s income.
The charity provides free, specialist care for adults in Luton and south Bedfordshire, and children from Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Milton Keynes living with life-limiting and terminal illnesses.
Keech’s doctors and nurses continue to play a vital part in the coronavirus effort. Standing shoulder to shoulder with the NHS on the frontline and providing care for their patients, families, and friends both at the hospice and in people’s homes. Wearing full PPE and dealing with an unprecedented number of patients, it continues to be a challenging and exhausting environment for the team to care in.
It costs Keech Hospice Care around £6 million a year to provide their specialist care for adults and children with life-limiting and terminal illnesses. Around 70% of that income is generated by supporters so with all 33 charity shops closed and fundraising events cancelled, the hospice is facing a funding gap of around £800,000.
The charity has done everything they can to reduce costs, take advantage of government support and have raised funds virtually but, faced with a funding gap of around £800,000 as they plan for the year ahead, they’ve decided to take the diffi cult decision and ask the community who built the hospice 30 years ago to help keep Keech caring.
If you can afford to give a gift today to help keep Keech caring, please donate at www.keech.org.uk/urgent or text KEECH on 70480 to donate £10. Texts cost £10 plus one standard rate message.
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