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LO CAL H O S PI C E F I N A L LY W E L C O M E S BAC K PU B LI C TO TI E A Y EL LOW R I B B O N The garden at Forest Holme Hospice in Poole was brightened by beautiful yellow ribbons last week, as it welcomed visitors back for its annual Tie A Yellow Ribbon event during Hospice Awareness Month. Tie A Yellow Ribbon is a special event of reflection and thanksgiving that takes place each year in June and gives people the opportunity to make a personal dedication
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on a ribbon, irrespective of whether their loved ones attended the hospice. Each symbolic ribbon is yellow, which is a colour commonly associated with the hospice movement, which are displayed in the hospice garden throughout the summer.
A
celebratory
event,
entitled
‘Simply
Silverstone, Wimbledon tickets, stay over at
Fabulous’, was held to commemorate the
Bovey Castle in Devon and a fabulous Walk
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic Forest
30th anniversary of Lewis-Manning Hospice
on part in Doc Martin!
Holme has not been able to host the event
Care and was part of a year-long calendar of activities, organised by the hospice.
for the past two years, so the hospice Headline partners of the event were Porsche
charity was delighted to be able to welcome
Centre Bournemouth and upon arrival
back supporters, who through making
Held and hosted at St Giles House in
guests were able to look at two stunning
donations with their dedications, helped raise
Wimborne St Giles, the event successfully
Porsche cars at the entrance to the venue.
over £4,000 to help support the provision of
raised funds to go towards recruiting another
Other sponsors included the dining sponsor
palliative and end-of-life care for people across
Lewis-Manning Hospice Care Staff Nurse to
which was Lester Aldridge and drinks
Poole, Wimborne and the Isle of Purbeck.
support patients and continue to provide
sponsor which was Barratt Homes.
extraordinary care in the local community. Chief Executive Clare Gallie advised, “It The spectacular evening was MC’d by
was such a superb evening, filled with so
AFC Bournemouth’s Jimmy Glass, and
much fun and a wonderful gathering of our
participants took part in a Heads & Tails
supporters from over the past 30 years. We
game, followed by a silent and live auction,
are hugely grateful to everyone involved,
which sold off an impressive array of prizes,
from our sponsors, to staff, to volunteers
including a Porsche Driving Experience at
to attendees.”
LEWIS - MANNING HOSPICE CARE
FOREST HOLME HOSPICE CHARIT Y
www.lewis-manning.org.uk
www.forestholmehospice.org.uk
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