Impact newsletter - Spring 2022 by trinity-hospice

Impact Compassion in action

Reaching everyone who needs us

thanks to your support

SPRING 2022

WELCOME

Dear Supporter, I am delighted to offer a very warm welcome to this edition of our Impact Newsletter. We have had a lot of wonderful things to look back on over the last six months, including seeing so many of you at our events. Whether you took part in an event or volunteered as a marshal, you have truly made a difference to hospice care on the Fylde coast. It is because of you and every single person who chooses to support our charity that we have been able to make some important changes in how we deliver our care. Ensuring that we continue to reach every single person who needs us, at whatever hour they do. We simply wouldn’t be here without our incredible community – the people we serve. And we have been so blown away with how you have continued to come up with creative fundraising ideas to support our work. From sell-out charity balls and marathon walks to sponsored silences and world record attempts, your incredible efforts make us smile every day. We’re looking forward to seeing more events as this year continues, and hearing all about the amazing things you’re doing to help our teams continue to provide exceptional hospice care and support for patients and their families and all those who look after them at home or in hospital, in our local care homes or in our Bispham In-patient Unit.

Thank you for everything you do and for helping us reach all who need us.

Dr Gill Au Medical Director 2

Inside IMPACT MAGA ZINE

2021

this issue... 2

Welcome from our Medical Director

Hospice news

Training our communities to support through grief

Our nurses are walking the longest way

David is a bouncing hero

Can you leave a lasting Legacy?

How we supported Chris and Lisa

Our Memory Meadow returns

Introducing Lisa, Assistant Clinical Director

The latest from Brian House

Two new shops open on the Fylde coast

Our special thanks

How you have made a difference 3

Hospice news After a difficult 2020, we were so excited to be able to kick start our events programme last summer.

It was amazing to see more than 900 people paint the beach at Blackpool Colour Run in August, our first live event since December 2019! And from there we saw over 2,000 runners set off along the prom under the worldfamous illuminations at Night Run, and just weeks later hundreds more walking five or eight miles under the lights in memory of loved ones at Blackpool Memory Walk.

We held the Beaverbooks Blackpool 10k Fun Run

THANK YOU!

later than usual in September and saw people reach a personal best as they crossed the finish line, and we watched as fearless supporters walked over fire in Blackpool Firewalk – all to raise money for our charity.

The year ended on a high as a record number of Santas dashed along the seafront, turning the prom into a sea of red, and raising an incredible amount of money for Brian House Children’s Hospice. 4

YOU’RE AMAZING!

Since returning in August 2021, our live events raised a whopping £241,619 Throughout 2021, incredible people who took part in our virtual events raised £5,798 Find out what’s happening this year and sign up at www.trinityhospice.co.uk/our-events.

Our counsellors at the Linden Centre and staff from Brian House spent time during Children’s Grief Awareness Week visiting local schools to help children who are struggling to cope with loss. Over the lunchtime break, our teams were on hand for pupils to talk to about any kind of loss they had experienced, from the death of a loved one or pet to moving on from a former teacher. The children spoke about what it feels like to lose someone, or something, while making memory boxes and bracelets to help them with their feelings. All schools involved said how successful the events had been.

Empowering others with bereavement support We’re helping our colleagues in local doctors’ surgeries to set up their own bereavement support groups so their patients can get the help and support they need to cope with grief and loss.

We have piloted a virtual training session with two groups of local practices to help them set up their groups, which are now running successfully for their patients. Janet Walsh is our Adult bereavement care Co-ordinator at the Linden Centre. She said: “On behalf of everyone at the Linden Centre, we’re so pleased to have been able to help empower local surgeries across the Fylde coast to set up their own bereavement support opportunities for their patients. “Bereavement support is incredibly important to anyone who is grieving, and we’re delighted that we have been able to make this more available to those who need it through their medical centre.”

We’re looking forward to working with more practices throughout the year.

Under-served patients in our community “My research showed that patients referred to Trinity Hospice who were initially done so by hospitals were more likely to live in more deprived areas than those who were referred by GP surgeries.” A research paper has discovered that we are reaching some of the more under-served members of our communities thanks to our incredibly close links with local hospital services. Maddy French spent three years working on her doctorate paper for her PhD in health research at Lancaster University where she analysed the number of individual patients referred to Trinity between April 2016 and April 2019.

The findings from this study are really encouraging and there is no doubt this reflects the great work our Trinity hospitalbased team does in collaboration with our hospital colleagues.

Over the three years, 5,626 patients were referred to the hospice, 63% of whom were from colleagues in hospital services. Maddy said: “Having a team based in the hospital that is employed by the hospice is quite novel, and it seemed to have an important influence in referrals in this area. 7

Our nurses are walking the longest way Colleagues in our Hospice at Home team are currently clocking up the miles for an epic walk along the Longest Way in the World. The team called themselves the Night Striders last year when they spent their rest days walking the distance between Land’s End to John O’Groats, taking just six weeks. This year, they’ve gone for a much bigger challenge of walking the distance of the Longest Way in the World – the longest stretch of land uninterrupted by oceans or other significant barriers. It runs from Cape Town in South Africa to Magadan in Russia. It’s a 21,808km (13,551 miles) walk across 17 countries and six time zones, which takes an average of 4,310 hours. That’s 187 days walking non-stop or 561 days walking 8 hours a day. The team expects the challenge to take 10 months. 8

Hospice at Home nurse Sam Pacey said: “We’re walking, running, cycling, swimming, dancing and even roller skating to get the miles in to complete this challenge and we hope to raise as much as possible for our incredible charity. “People do amazing things so that we can give our care to those who need us in their homes during the night, and this is something we wanted to do to complement those efforts. We really enjoyed the Land’s End to John O’Groats challenge, and wanted to do something bigger and better this year.

“It’s tough trying to get the walks in after a long night’s work, but knowing that we’re helping to make a difference in our community – and being able to see first-hard the impact that has on the families who need us – really is keeping us going.”

13,551 miles in just 10 months!

To support the Hospice at Home Team, visit www.justgiving.com/nightstriders22 9

Fun facts We get through 2,600 toilet rolls a year. That’s enough to stretch from Lytham to Fleetwood five and a half times!! And it costs us £520 each year.

It costs us £1,206 a year to keep our surfaces free of germs with specialist disinfectant wipes. We’ll get through 660 bottles of bleach in a year! And that costs us £363.

There is still time to be in with the chance of winning £2,022 in our Bumper Draw! Tickets are just £1 and are available on our website. Taking part is win-win, as every ticket you buy not only gives you a chance to win, but also helps us to reach those who need hospice care on the Fylde coast. 10

A space hop makes a huge difference At the beginning of 2020 he began dressing up and putting on comedy sketches, shared on Facebook, to raise money for Trinity. Later in the year, he took to the skies and jumped from a plane to reach his £10,000 target. But that wasn’t enough. Soon afterwards, he announced his most shocking fundraising challenge yet – a world record attempt to travel the length of the Fylde coast on a space hopper! Early on the August Bank Holiday, David straddled his hopper and set off bouncing along the promenade from Rossall. He was joined by a team of supporters which grew as the day continued, as well as marshals to provide evidence for Guinness World Record. It was a very long day but 17km, 17 hours, 10 space hoppers later (with some hard-working puncture repair glue), David bounced into St Annes, breaking the world record!

The stunt and following raffles are expected to have raised an incredible £7,500. It takes David’s total fundraising to £17,500 and he plans to raise a further £2,500 to meet a £20,000 target later this year. After the sponsored bounce, David said: “That was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, and I really should have put more practice in. “It was tough on my body, tough on me mentally and took some time for my muscles to recover. But to have raised so much money for such a fantastic and important cause in my community makes it all worth it.

“I started fundraising for Trinity back in 2020 because it’s a charity so close to so many people’s hearts – everyone you meet has some connection to the hospice – and people have been so generous in donating what they can time and time again. “A huge thank you to everyone who supported me, not just with a donation but helping me to plan the space hop and being there on the day, by my side.”

We think David is a hospice hero! 11

Chris was in Trinity Hospice for five days “That’s not a long time, but for us, it was a lifetime. After caring for him – doing everything for him – for five months, in those five days I was his wife again.

“I could finally cherish our moments together, knowing they were limited. We’d had a very difficult two years. Chris was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in 2018 and had radiotherapy and chemotherapy before a 12-hour operation to remove the majority of his oesophagus. “He was on the road to recovery, but soon Chris became unwell again. The cancer had returned. He had another operation and more chemotherapy. It wasn’t even a year later when, during lockdown, we discovered it had come back. We had some tough conversations and he went in for another operation. It took 19 hours and left him unable to speak and requiring round the clock care. “It was hard, but we were working towards getting back on our feet – to get back to our new normal. But he deteriorated. There was another tumour and this time, there was nothing we could do. There was no operation, and Chris was too weak for any more treatment.

“Chris was reluctant to get Trinity involved. He was only 38 and had a real fear that going to the hospice was accepting it was the end. But I was giving him so much care, I got to the point where I simply couldn’t do it anymore on my own. “I was surviving on four hours of broken sleep. And Chris was in so much pain.

Chris’s wife or spend any quality time with him. I knew he was going to die and what we were facing, and those five days were so important to me.

“In the end, I wasn’t frightened. It was so peaceful and calm, and we were just together.”

“The nurses from the hospice started to call, to make sure I was alright as much as Chris. Those calls meant the world to me. I wasn’t alone. And Hospice at Home came to see Chris when I worried he wasn’t right. Just the reassurance they were there was so important. “We went into Trinity to help manage his medication. Chris’s plan was to die at home, and I was happy with that, but when we got to the hospice, he deteriorated. He suddenly needed a lot more medication to keep him comfortable. “We both just seemed so much more relaxed when we were in the hospice. For so long I hadn’t been able to be 13

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Gifts in Wills Once you have provided for your loved ones, a gift in your Will can allow us to plan for the future with confidence, knowing we can be there for generations of people who will call on our services. A gift of any size in your Will, even 1%, would mean that we can continue to provide and grow our services to meet the needs of the local families who may require our specialist care. If you are considering leaving a gift in your Will to Trinity Hospice – thank you. An increasing number of our supporters are choosing to help us to be there for those they love and care about in the future.

Should you choose to remember Trinity in your Will, we promise to use your generous support where it will have the most impact for our patients.

Find out more about leaving a gift in your Will at www.trinityhospice .co.uk/gift-in-will 15

Make a regular donation to sponsor a nurse Our nurses work across all of our services, helping to provide comfort, dignity and vital care to all who need it in the hospice, in the hospital and in the community. By sponsoring a Trinity nurse, you’ll be helping us care for thousands of patients and their families. Nurses like Kirsty, who has seen first-hand the difference she makes with her colleagues in the hospice and in the hospital. “I worked on the In-patient Unit at the hospice for four years, but recently moved over to the hospital team, based at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. “Here at the hospital, people may have been referred to us just a few days after receiving their diagnosis. Or they may be really unwell with their condition while they’re still having treatment. You’re just looking at patients from a completely different angle as you do from the hospice. 16

“Our job is very much about supporting patients by complementing the care they receive in hospital, working with other teams across the hospital and offering our support and expertise. “When you’ve put a patient forward for a bed at the hospice, you really feel like you’ve made a difference to them. They may just be having symptoms of their condition that they can’t manage – that they’re really struggling with, and you know they can get sorted at the hospice and back home again, feeling much more comfortable.

“We do a lot of education, spending time every day on different wards in the hospital talking about end-of-life care and that’s really where I feel like I’m making a big difference; highlighting the importance of palliative care. “The In-patient Unit underpins everything that I know, and it’s a privilege to be able to go out and share that knowledge with other medical professionals.”

£5 a month could help Trinity Hospice nurses to provide tailored care that meets a person’s individual needs £10 a month is enough for a nurse in our hospital team to make a difficult phone call £16 a month could pay for a nurse to care for an hour on our In-patient Unit £28 a month is enough for a nurse to spend an hour with a patient at home during the night

Sponsor a nurse today, visit

www.trinityhospice.co.uk/sponsor-a-nurse 17

We’ll be inviting you and others in your community to remember and celebrate the lives of loved ones with a special tribute plaque, which we will plant in our beautiful hospice gardens. Last year, we sadly couldn’t invite people in to see their plaques in the Memory Meadow due to Covid restrictions in place at the time. But we’re hopeful that this year will be different so our community can enjoy the wonderful display, as well as patients on our In-patient Unit and colleagues working at the hospice. If you would like to remember a loved one in our Meadow, or have a memory plaque sent for you to plant at home, visit www.trinityhospice.co.uk /memory-meadow

La was o st year Memo ur first ever ry Me adow

raising £26,64 2

Dear friends

I’m Lisa,

the new Assistant Clinical Director and it’s part of my job to look after all the amazing things that are happening at Brian House. We’ve had a strange couple of years here at Brian House, and when I arrived we still weren’t seeing all the incredible children we were used to at the children’s hospice. But our teams were getting out into the community as much as they could so all the families who need our care and support were still able to access it. And that’s work which we are continuing even as we welcome more children back into the hospice. We’re also building great links with other services both locally and regionally so that we can be sure every family who might need our support knows exactly where to come. We know the word ‘hospice’ can be a scary one for parents to hear, so it’s important that we can have important conversations right at the point of need to dispel any myths that might be putting people off accessing our care. Our work to support the whole family when a child is very fragile is continuing, and our sibling support groups and baby and toddler events are getting really popular. It’s important our families don’t feel alone when they have a life-limited child, and these groups really are a lifeline for them. We can only provide this vital care and support thanks to you – the amazing people who choose to support our work so that we can help the local families who need us. To give nursing care to our area’s most fragile children and create lasting memories while helping them to play and have fun, as all children should. To create full lives, however short.

l Director Lisa Barlow - Assistant Clinica

We must evolve to meet the needs of our families When a child is life-limited, it affects the whole family. Whether a complex condition was diagnosed in pregnancy or came about because of a trauma at birth, or is something that has developed over time, it can have a huge impact on parents, siblings and even grandparents.

No-one plans for a child with complex needs, and family members can find themselves in a very difficult role; parents become carers, siblings can become lost and grandparents may find themselves watching their own children struggle with the emotional turmoil they are facing. That’s why we have developed a series of support groups that will help the whole family to talk about what life is like to people who understand in a safe environment with help, advice and complementary therapies.

Baby Group

Toddler Group

It’s hard enough when you return from hospital with a baby – even harder when that baby is life-limited. Parents may become isolated, feel alone and worry about the future.

Aimed at toddlers, this group is more about helping the children socialise with each other, while supporting parents through their new friendships with other parents – just as a toddler group in the community would.

Although the babies we look after have different conditions, the pressure on their parents is the same. And we know how much it helps just talking to another new parent who understands; who has felt the same things and shares the same worries. Our Baby Group can support parents to build friendships and support networks while their babies are developing and gives them a chance to share their stories and experiences with others. Conversations about a baby having a seizure or being fed through a tube are not normal for most families, but at Brian House, they are.

Each session will be based on a different theme and may include speakers for additional help and advice for parents.

Allotment

We are extremely privileged to have been gifted an allotment just for Brian House. Not only will some of our children be able to explore the outdoor space and help to grow fresh produce for us, we’ll open it up to siblings of life-limited children, as well as parents and grandparents. We’re especially excited to be able to grow our own pumpkins ready for carving in October. We know that some of our dads would rather network outdoors than at a baby or toddler group, and that’s the same from grandads too. So this really is a perfect opportunity and we’re grateful to have such a wonderful space. 21

Siblings

Parents Group

We’re launching two new groups just for siblings of children who are life-limited. The Sibling group is aimed at younger siblings and is a chance for them to talk to each other about their family life and be understood by people the same age.

At our Parents Group, parents come to Brian House without their child for some complementary therapy and speakers on relevant topics like specific conditions or benefits.

We’ll also have a Chill and Chat group for older siblings. Both groups will provide siblings with a safe environment to socialise with people of a similar age in similar circumstances. We know some of their experiences aren’t normal in their friendship groups, so we’re helping them with a safe space to talk about what home life is truly like for them. We want to give them the focus – make them feel important because we know in a home where a child has complex needs, siblings can sometimes feel lost.

This group is all about giving parents the chance to relax and talk without the need to care for their child. We know how important complementary therapy is for carers, and we really want to give them the focus for a short time.

Grandparents Group Grandparents of a child with complex needs can often feel a huge burden that goes unmentioned. Not only do they have a grandchild who requires specialist, dedicated care, but they are watching their own child deal with the emotional turmoil that brings. A grandparent may take on the care role while their child returns to work or simply needs a break, and they need the support as much as parents do. Our Grandparents Group is another networking opportunity just for them with the chance to receive some complementary therapy and support from the Linden Centre. It’s a safe space where they can talk through how they feel.

Brothers run a half marathon for Brian House When we signed up to complete a half marathon, we knew that we would do it to support a charity close to our hearts – one where we had seen first-hand the difference it makes to local families.

We’d done some work experience at Brian House, and being there to help put a smile on a child’s face is the best feeling in the world. We got to spend time with those amazing children and speak to the staff and families about the difference the children’s hospice makes to them. In the end, it was that which kept us going. When we were questioning whether to go out on training runs during the rain, and during the race itself when we were hurting and felt like we couldn’t go on. It was all to help make a difference to those incredible families. It was difficult. The last few kilometres were tough for both of us, but we had always said we’d start and finish together so we just mentally helped each other through it. We ran the whole thing and were really pleased to finish at two hours and 20 minutes – 10 minutes faster than our target time.

And we raised £563 for Brian House. That’s what makes it all worth it.

James & Sam Houston 23

A heart-felt thank you Friends and family of much-loved youngster Jordan Banks have done so much in his memory for Brian House, helping us to be there for local families who need us now and in the future.

After we supported Jordan’s family, they and those close to them have done everything they can to support our work in the community. From sports, including football and wrestling, to endurance challenges and taking part in our own events, this incredible group has raised a phenomenal amount in Jordan’s memory!

They also helped to make our most recent Santa Dash the biggest ever, by encouraging everyone who knew Jordan to run in his memory. We were blown away by their support and we are honoured to lead a minute’s applause for such a remarkable young man. Among their efforts was a Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge, where a group of 20 friends climbed Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough and raised a massive £11,341 for Brian House. This year, the team will return with a much harder challenge – tackling the National Three Peaks in 24 hours to raise as much as they can for our outstanding children’s hospice. We wish them well in their efforts.

We cannot thank Jordan’s family and everyone close to them enough, for their amazing support.

It really does mean so much to us and all the wonderful children and families who need our care. 25

We have two brand new shops! At the beginning of the year, we opened our new shop in Knott End, our first in the area.

In the last five years, our expert care teams working in the hospice, in the hospital and care homes and in the community have supported more than 170 patients from Knott End; 34 of whom were supported in the last 12 months. By opening our new shop on Wyre Street, this wonderful community is able help us to provide this exceptional hospice care in their doorstep.

We are thrilled to be opening a dedicated charity shop for Brian House in Lytham. Our supporters in Lytham mean so much to us, and make such a difference by shopping in our Trinity shop and making generous donations of quality clothes and good. These new additions take our total shops on the high street to 21, and means that shoppers across the Fylde coast can support local hospice care while getting quality clothing,toys, books and other goods at bargain prices.

In nine months, our shops have raised an incredible £606,000. THANK YOU for supporting your local hospice charity shop. 26

That’s why we’re branching out and opening a second store in the area, raising money for our incredible children’s hospice. It means more goods at bargain prices for this amazing community.

Our volunteers It’s been another strange year for the incredible people who donate their time to us, helping us to reach every single person who needs us. Whether they offer a warming drink and a friendly ear to patients and visitors, help maintain our beautiful gardens, help keep our shops stocked and inviting or support teams across the hospice, our volunteers really do mean the world to us.

Did you know?

Our amazing volunteers are worth an incredible £1.8 million – but to us, they are priceless Volunteers make up 2/3 of our workforce! If you would like to find out more about volunteers for Trinity Hospice, visit www.trinityhospice.co.uk/volunteer-for-us 27

Special thanks A huge thank you to the amazing businesses and organisations who took part in the Fylde Coast £50 Challenge.

A total of 27 businesses took part our most recent challenge, raising an incredible £49,500 including charitable donations for our shops on the high street.

A huge congratulations to our winners, Currys Blackpool, who raised an astonishing £17,000 and worthy runners up Partner Plus Media with an impressive £8,000.

Our friends at LCRIG held their own £50 challenge. They tasked all Project Amber framework contractors to come up with ideas to raise as much as they possibly could for Trinity – the company’s chosen charity. The challenge was supported across the Highways community. 28 28

Shine bright A big thank you to everyone who took part in the Brian House Christmas lights trail 2021 We had 11 streets on our map where households and neighbours lit up the night sky with festive cheer, all in aid of our fantastic children’s hospice. This wonderful Christmas event is growing thanks to the amazing people in our community, and we received some lovely messages from people who had visited houses on the trail and had a wonderful Christmas time. Once again, Harry the Christmas Lorry was out spreading Christmas joy and our friends at Santa Comes to Bispham put on a wonderful parade to raise money for Brian House. Thank you to everyone involved.

A huge thanks to everyone at Fernbank Surgery in Lytham who donated £10,000. The money was received as part of their work on the Covid vaccine process, and they kindly donated it all to our charity. 29

Friends and family of Trinity supporter Donna MolyneuxJohnson raised an incredible £13,000 at a glamourous ball in Blackpool’s Winter Gardens in memory of Donna’s husband, Greg. The event won the attraction of a number of famous faces and even included a special message from comedy man Peter Kay!

A huge thank you to everyone who booked a Christmas Tree Collection, and to our incredible volunteers who spent a weekend in January collecting 1,937 trees. It raised £24,301 - our best yet!

Have you seen or met our beautiful PAT Dog, Bailey? Bailey and her owner, Vin, have been out at about talking to children in local schools about the work we do in their community. 30

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Join our lottery for the chance to win Join our lottery for the chance to win £1,000 each week! Playing the Trinity Hospice Lottery is win win. For just £1 you are in the draw to win big, and you can have up to three plays each week. As well as the top prize, we have a second prize of £300, third prize of £100 and 10 prizes of £10 to give away.

Signing up is simple. Just scan the QR code and complete the short sign up form. We’ll send you your lottery membership card and will let you know if you are one of our lucky winners.

But on top of that you are helping to raise vital funds so that our expert hospice care can reach everyone across the Fylde coast who needs it, wherever they are, whatever the hour.

In the last six months alone, Lottery players have helped to raise a total of £274,615. This incredible amount is enough to run our entire In-patient Unit for nearly a month. Amazing!

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Already play our lottery? Did you know that by rounding up the cost of your monthly membership, you could make a huge difference to our work. As a lottery player, your monthly payment allows us to plan ahead, knowing that we can look to the future with more confidence and keep our vital services running.

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But if every Trinity Lottery player topped up the monthly cost of their lottery membership to £5, it would mean an extra £61,285 this year for our charity. That’s enough to run our whole Hospice at Home service, providing hospice care to those who need it in their own homes during the night, for nearly two months! To help make that extra bit of difference, sign up to Keep the Change. Simply scan the QR code and complete the short form. We’ll sort the rest.

HOSPICE AT HOME

340 patients were admitted to the In-patient Unit WITH AN AVERAGE OF...

admissions

48%

saw

Per month

1,301

of whom, not previously known to Trinity

patients

Our Schools Link service involved 72 local schools

Of those patients known to the community service...

95% died out of hospital

77%

died in their preferred place of care

That’s much more than the national average

DIRECTLY SUPPORTED

35%

of all deaths across the Fylde coast

Cared for 424

PATIENTS WITH COVID-19

The Children’s Bereavement

was used for...

DAYS

THE HOSPICE SUPPORTED

125

PATIENTS

through our Lymphoedema service

Bereavement

counselling

services saw

770 patients

THE HOSPITAL TEAM supported 1,407 patients

LEGACIES Last year, an incredible 14% of all of our income came from amazing people who had left a gift for the hospice in their Will.

OUR COMMUNITY PALLIATIVE CARE TEAM

supported

1,281

PATIENTS

The number of new patients supported with a non-cancer diagnosis was 16%

were given support at

Brian House

with 14 new children referred

347

patients or carers

recieved complementary therapy treatments

It really adds up! Donations received last year, including those made by the incredible people in our Friends Groups, account for 13% of our total income.

SHOPS

71 families

DONATIONS

Whilst supporting wider hospital teams

Whether you’ve donated goods or bought items from our shops, you’ve helped to make a difference. Our shops brought in 6% of our overall income.

LOTTERY

In for a penny… if you play our weekly lottery, together you’re bringing in 5% of our total income. 35

Community Corner 8 MARCH Bingo at 7pm Over Wyre Friends Lighthouse Community Church, Knott End 12 MARCH Afternoon tea 2pm-4pm Ticket (£5) only, call 01253 864604 Thornton Cleveleys Friends Christ Church Thornton Community Centre 31 MARCH Ladies’ Lunch Ticket (£20) only, call 01253 864604 Thornton Cleveleys Friends Singleton Lodge, Poulton 26 MARCH Fylde Mayoral Ball Contact joanne.collins@fylde.gov.uk Fylde Council Villa Hotel, Wrea Green 7 MAY Fundraising Ball Call 07837 326278 Over Wyre Friends Village Hotel, Blackpool 28 MAY Blackpool Souls in Motion – Dancing on the Carpet Comedy Carpet, Blackpool

Trinity Hospice & Palliative Care Services Low Moor Road, Bispham, Blackpool FY2 0BG Tel. 01253 358881 Web. www.trinityhospice.co.uk RE G ISTE RE D C H A RITY N O . 51 1 0 0 9

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