Forest Holme Hospice - Autumn Newsletter 2021

Fundraising For Forest Holme Camille with a Skydive (for another favourite charity of mine – Spaniel Aid UK), lucky lady! I always try to donate when I see fundraising campaigns for the hospice, so was hopeful this would go some small way to say thank you to the nurses and staff, as I have never really had the opportunity to give back properly before.

What made you do it for Forest Holme?

The charity is massively important to me (as they cared for my lovely mum – Susan Greenham, when she had Lewy Body Dementia and Cancer). The dementia Bonnie Cyrnik (below, left) very made it very difficult for her to be treated bravely took on a Wing Walk recently in a hospital, even in a shared room with to fundraise for Forest Holme. We sat two other ladies, so Forest Holme Hospice down with her to hear more about her were vitally important to me and my fundraising challenge. family in the thirteen days between Tell us about your challenge for the Cancer diagnosis and her passing. I was hospice? glad to be able to raise some much On 26 June 2021 myself and my needed funds (the final total was £2,123 wonderful friend Camille Campbell-Wild on our Just Giving page), to go a small took part in Forest Holme’s Wing Walk way to saying thank you to the wonderful fundraising event. I had seen a post about staff at Forest Holme. this on the Facebook page and so on a Friday night after a glass of wine, I messaged Camille to see if she fancied signing up for it (she is terrified of heights, but is trying to do 39 crazy things this year before she turns 40 this year, so I thought I would enlist her support!).

To prepare for the Wing Walk – as practice for the heights, I also ‘surprised’ 12