Update on Heather Broadbent’s Around the World Challenge
Round-the-world sailor Heather Broadbent is preparing to embark on her epic voyage on Sunday (Sept 1). Heather will spend 11 months at sea competing in the Clipper 2019-20 Round the World Yacht Race which starts at St Katherine Docks in London. The landscape gardener, from Disley, will be on board the 70-foot ocean racing yacht […]
Training for Nepal!
Tackling Tegg’s Nose on a summer’s evening is one thing, but navigating Nepal in November is a completely different prospect. But that is the challenge facing Sarah Dale and Louise Delany who must combine preparations for a Himalayan trek with jobs at East Cheshire Hospice as well as running families. Both volunteered for the once-in-a-lifetime […]
Award Nominated Dementia Community Companions
Some of our volunteers have been short-listed for a prestigious charity award. The 12-strong team of Dementia Community Companions could become the Volunteer Team of the Year at the 2019 North West Charity Awards. Each member of the group spends at least two hours a week as a companion to someone with the early stages […]
In conversation with Susie MacMurray
See for yourself one of Cheshire’s newest and most amazing pieces of artwork – and meet the artist who created it. Susie MacMurray will be in conversation during her spectacular Gathering exhibition in the Staircase Hall in the Mansion at Tatton Park. Her opening talk is Thurs 25th July and further conversations are on Thurs […]
Richard Raymond is Nightrider
Teamwork is usually the key to Richard Raymond’s fundraising for East Cheshire Hospice. As co-founder of the charity’s Christmas Tree Collection, he plays a pivotal role in a large-scale operation which has so far raised more than £1m. But his latest fundraising challenge was very much a single-handed effort as he undertook a 50 kilometre […]
Who is Sunny??
Just who is Sunny, the East Cheshire Hospice mascot who features in a new comical online video? Sunny the dog is featured promoting the Challenge Series of events which inspire hundreds of people to push themselves every year to raise funds for the Hospice. Sunny is seen in the gym, at an aerobics class, weightlifting, […]
Gathering for ‘Gathering’
After months of enjoying the camaraderie of teamwork, international artist Susie MacMurray is now embarking on the last stages of her newest art creation. After six months of painstaking sewing supported by 10 volunteers, Susie’s art installation, Gathering, is now in its final stages and will be set to move to Tatton Park in just […]
Co-Op Local Community Fund
Your weekly shopping trip could be helping to support a unique service for young people in East Cheshire. The Childhood Bereavement Service, run by East Cheshire Hospice, supports young people coping with loss and now it’s been chosen to benefit from the Co-Op Local Community Fund with 1% of every Co-Op own brand product bought […]
Gathering – Susie MacMurray
Teamwork is the key for international artist Susie MacMurray who unveils her newest creation at Tatton Park next month. Six months of painstaking work by Susie, her assistant Helen Newman and 10 volunteers has created Gathering, an art installation of 3,750 elements of red velvet and barbed wire. The sewing will be over in the […]
What Women Want Fashion Show 2019
Fashion, fizz and fun turned the latest What Women Want extravaganza into a roaring success. The glitzy fashion show at Tytherington High School drew an audience of 200 guests, raising £4,500 for East Cheshire Hospice. What Women Want is made up of Julie Barnes, Jo Millward, Elaine Burgess, Jayne Carter and Jill Harding who have spent […]