Schools take part in this years Jingle Bell Jog
Santa hats decorated school halls and playgrounds during the great Jingle Bell Jog! Around 8,000 youngsters took part in the festive fundraiser in aid of East Cheshire Hospice. A total of 38 schools and nurseries held runs, walks, swims and dances in the countdown to Christmas. Their efforts made the event a big success with […]
Friends Laura Lamptey and Charlotte Bains take on Trek China
Friends Laura Lamptey and Charlotte Bains have special reasons for wanting to visit the Great Wall of China. The pair are raising funds for East Cheshire Hospice where they work. Laura saw how the Hospice cared for her sister-in-law Sarah who died of cancer in 2014, aged 36. Meanwhile, Charlotte is approaching her 50th birthday […]
Christmas @Home appeal goes live
East Cheshire Hospice is explaining what difference donations to its Christmas @Home appeal will make to patients. For example, £25 could pay for telephone calls offering emotional support to someone grieving around Christmas. Or a gift of £60 could fill the tank of a Hospice @Home car, helping nurses reach patients in their own homes […]
East Cheshire Hospice’s Christmas Appeal
Christmas @Home is the title of this year’s festive appeal by East Cheshire Hospice. The campaign features a powerful personal account by a daughter about her late mum, Wendy Wragg. Ruth Beach describes how nurses from the charity’s Hospice @Home team allowed her 88-year-old mum to die at home in April 2023. The Hospice hopes […]
Sue’s Story and dedicating a bauble
Sue Cottingham will dedicate a bauble on a Christmas tree like she has done for the last seven years. She is hoping other East Cheshire Hospice supporters will do the same. Each leaving a personal message, if they wish, to remember lost loved ones. The Tree of Memories is a focal point in the Hospice […]
Another successful Hospice fundraising day to remember for Mary Hindle.
Cakes, conversation and good company made it another Hospice day to remember for Mary Hindle. Especially as the occasion raised at least £1,700 for East Cheshire Hospice. From left, Jane O’Neill, Sue Parker, Mary Hindle, Rebecca Morgan, Carol Waters and Jane Haigh. Mary has been holding these annual events at her Prestbury home for almost […]
A spotlight on Macclesfield Support Group members
Gillian Belt made lifelong friendships in more than two decades serving tea and coffee on the ward at East Cheshire Hospice. Her first contact came when her late father Alvin Thomas was admitted as a cancer patient in 1998. Gillian said: “Dad came to live with us from our family home in Wales and spent […]
Macclesfield Support Group
Volunteer Angela Roberts is still doing what her late mum requested when she was a patient at East Cheshire Hospice. It was back in 1990 that Phyllis Moran asked her daughter to continue to help the Hospice once she was no longer here. Angela has stayed true to her word, clocking up 35 years of […]
Chrome Motors partner with East Cheshire Hospice
Used car dealers Chrome Motors are going the extra mile to help East Cheshire Hospice. The Macclesfield-based family business will donate £100 to the charity for every car bought or sold. Six customers have already taken part in the new fundraising campaign set up by owners Danny and Natalie Towns. The husband and wife established […]
A Dead Good Day success
Dead Good Day – that was the intriguing name for East Cheshire Hospice’s latest event. The charity’s chaplaincy team were out and about in Macclesfield town centre on Saturday making the subject of death a little less daunting. It was a family friendly event with activities such as hook a duck and a sunflower trail […]