Welcome
from Emma Hodges, CEO
It’s been a busy 12 months at St Giles, beginning this
time last year with the launch of our new brand and the
unveiling of our five-year strategy.
Reading through the strategy again this week in preparation for
writing this piece, one line stood out for me – ‘It takes a community to
make a hospice’.
Every day I see, hear and listen to stories of how the community
supports St Giles and the work that all of our teams do, from
volunteers who have worked in our shops for an amazing three
decades, to fundraisers climbing to Everest Base Camp to raise money.
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So many people across our community give their time, energy, money
and donated goods to St Giles and to quote a famous supermarket:
‘Every little helps’.
In fact, all of those generous gifts of hours, pounds and items add
up to such a lot. This year we worked out that our volunteers donate
an amazing £2.3 million-worth of time to the organisation. That’s on
top of the millions of pounds raised through our shops and lottery, via
fundraising and through gifts left in wills.
Put simply, we couldn’t do what we do without all of the people in our
community who so generously support us.
Whether it’s a pound a week on our lottery, taking part in one of
our events, raising money through a cake sale at work, giving your
unwanted books to our shops or donating your time, it all adds up to
make a huge difference in helping us to care for families at some of
the hardest times in their lives.
I’m incredibly proud of the community we are part of – I’ve seen a
wonderful surge in people supporting people, through Bereavement
Help Points and peer-to-peer support like our MS and Pulmonary
Fibrosis support groups.
And the ripples from our community engagement work are reaching
even further than we could have hoped, with businesses, schools,
colleges and individuals embracing the opportunity
to create compassionate communities around
end-of-life care with warmth and enthusiasm.
So to every individual, school, college,
organisation, lottery player, volunteer and
shopper, and to everyone who works for
and with us to spread the word, thank you.
Tell us what
you think
We love to listen to what matters and do what matters
for our patients, so if you’ve experienced care at St Giles
and have suggestions of ways in which we can improve
our service, however small, please get in touch.
You can email us at [email protected],
contact us by phone on 01543 432031 or post:
St Giles Hospice, Fisherwick Road, Whittington,
Lichfield, WS14 9LH.
It really does take a community to make
a hospice, and we are very lucky to have
such a great community.
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News and Review Spring/Summer 2018