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 […]
A heartfelt thank you to Bed Appeal donors
Pippa Williams from East Cheshire Hospice has issued a heartfelt thank you on behalf of the charity to Bed Appeal donors. Pippa, the Inpatient Unit Ward Manager, said: “I want to thank everyone who has donated so generously to our appeal. It’s so touching to see that our community have come through for us again. […]
Bed Appeal success!
You’ve done it! The super supporters of East Cheshire Hospice have come to the charity’s aid in spectacular style. Its Bed Appeal has now exceeded its target meaning patients will soon benefit from new specialist beds. The Hospice needed to raise a mammoth £95,650 and has today announced that it has surpassed that total. Hospice […]
Kevin Simmons and friends walked Ullswater Way for the Hospice in honour of his partner Karen
A picturesque lakeside walk brought back memories of happier times for Kevin Simmons. The retired accountant retraced the steps taken with late partner Karen Di Felice just over a year earlier. The couple had completed a circuit of Ullswater Way in the Lake District with Kevin’s sister Elaine in May 2024. Seven months later Karen, […]