St Michael’s Hospice is looking to enhance its fundraising in association with BigGive week.
One donation, double the impact during St Michael’s BigGive week
At a time when the importance of palliative care is in the news, St Michael’s Hospice today launches a week of fundraising in collaboration with BigGive, which links donations with match funders, as marketing and communications assistant Lottie Adams-Brown explains.
From 3 to 10 December, St Michael’s Hospice is excited to launch our BigGive campaign. BigGive is an organisation that supports charities by connecting them with match funders. This means every pound you donate to the Hospice, via their BigGive page, will be doubled!
The money raised from this campaign will help create a truly special Christmas for patients and their loved ones – a time for comfort, love and lasting memories.
A reminder of a previous fundraising campaign.
One of the nurses at the Hospice, Sarah, recalled, “We try to make every day a special one, but Christmas is extra special! Last year I worked Christmas day, for the first time. One of our patients was quite a young man, his mum was also staying with us and his brother travelled up from Cornwall in his camper van to spend the day with them.
“They had expected a quiet day, but what they experienced was a day full of laughter, wrapped gifts, a table set with our best china and a huge Christmas dinner cooked by our chef.
“Recently the patient’s mum visited us again and shared that she still tells people how wonderful this day was saying, ‘You made the unbearable, bearable.’”
Help St Michael’s Hospice make the unbearable, bearable this Christmas, by supporting their BigGive campaign.
The hospice’s services are free of charge to anyone in Hastings and Rother in need of them. This means we rely on the generosity of our community. It costs around £5.5m every year to keep the hospice running. The NHS provides a grant covering one third of this, but the rest comes directly from our community.
We are so grateful to every person who has, and continues to, contribute our mission of supporting and enabling the community of Hastings and Rother to live well with dying, death and loss.
Donate to St Michael Hospice’s BigGive campaign here.
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