News & Review Spring/Summer 2018 01. Newsletter_Feb 18_web | Página 14

Our year in numbers

It takes a community to make a hospice; we can’ t do what we do without you.
When we come together we can create something amazing that is far greater than the sum of our parts. Dedicated staff + incredible volunteers + wonderful supporters = a growing range of care services devoted to local people and their families who are living with a potentially terminal illness.

6,188 hours per week were donated by our volunteers

£ 1.5m raised through fundraising

We spent more than Our shops raised

£ 9m

That’ s £ 176,000 every week of the year.
on providing our care services.

£ 749,000

mainly from donations of clothes and furniture
Our lottery raised

£ 932,000

£

£

£

£

Over

7,000

people are now supported each year

1,000

80 %
WHITTINGTON
more people locally who need our specialist care
of our care is delivered out in the community
WALSALL
SUTTON COLDFIELD

£ 1.8m

gifts in wills( average over the past 3 years)

10

Bereavement Help Points across nine towns in our catchment area
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News and Review Spring / Summer 2018