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PRAISE FOR A WIRRAL CARE HOME
WITH A ‘GOLDEN HEART’
A Wirral care home has been awarded the Golden Hearts in the
Community award by YMCA Wirral for only the 25th time since
the youth charity introduced the accolade 73 years ago.
The Hazelwell, a residential, nursing, palliative and respite care home
in Heswall, which opened in the summer of 2016, has supported the
organisation for the past two years. It has helped provide the YMCA
Wirral with much-needed clothing parcels, such as hats, scarfs, gloves
and other items to help people, without a home or shelter, deal with the
cold temperatures in winter.
The care home has regularly raised money for the charity, including
recently hosting a Christmas family day for residents and their
families, staff and members of the community, with proceeds from a
festive raffle donated to the YMCA Wirral night shelter at Birkenhead.
The YMCA Wirral was founded in 1874 and its mission is focused on
helping young people to overcome homelessness and making sure that
they feel like they belong and thrive in their local communities. The
charity introduced the Golden Hearts in the Community award in
1946. Its first recipients were the Air Raid Patrol (ARP) who rescued
residents from bombed-out houses - who were subsequently left
homeless - during the blitz in the Second World War around Royal
Albert Dock.
The Hazelwell becomes the 25th receiver of the Golden Hearts in the
Community award which is decided by an independent panel.
The organisation’s chief executive Nigel Hughes said: “The Golden
Hearts in the Community award is recognition that the staff and
residents at The Hazelwell are a very special group of people in the
Wirral community. It is not something which is awarded very often
and only for an outstanding deed or gesture so it really is well-deserved.
“No other care home in the Wirral has ever helped the YMCA Wirral.
The Hazelwell contacted us not long after it opened and have supported
us ever since. The staff and residents are fully behind doing all they
can for us. You would think that when a person goes into residential
care that they would be more concerned about their own lives so it’s
extremely heart-warming for residents of The Hazelwell to think about
trying to help others.”
The Hazelwell care home manager Kathryn McGuinness said: “It’s a
huge honour for us to be given this award by the YMCA for only the
25th time in its long history. We are extremely pleased to have been
able to support the YMCA Wirral in any way that we can. They are
a fantastic charity who do fantastic work in our local community,
which our residents recognise and are appreciative of. I’m sure that
our residents and staff will continue to support the YMCA Wirral in
achieving their mission. We look forward to working with Nigel and
the charity for years to come.”
For more information about The Hazelwell contact Kathryn on
0151 342 9654, email [email protected] or visit
www.thehazelwell.com
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