Dear Friends
Chief Executive, Anne Currie
Welcome to our Summer newsletter. As I write this, the sun is shining on one of the warmest days of the year, there is the constant whizz of traffic from the road beside me with people heading out to make the most of the beautiful weather and England have just kicked off their first game in the Euros. Life seems to be buzzing all around us.
remembered the work of Forest Holme Hospice in their wills. Therefore, we try to plan as many fundraising events and initiatives to ensure that we have a consistent level of income throughout the year to meet the costs of the many areas of work we support in the hospice.
It will come as no surprise to you that the last year has had a considerable effect on our ability to fundraise, but we have been very fortunate in monies we have received through legacies this year, which has meant that we can continue to provide this lifeenhancing support, and even I’m not entirely sure how to increase some areas of nursing summarise the last few months and counselling, to meet the but to say it very much remains growing need within our an ebb and flow situation. In the community. To everyone who took words of my countryman Robert the time to plan leaving a gift in Burns in the poem ‘To a Mouse’ he their will to Forest Holme, we said, “The best laid schemes o’ thank you. Their thoughtful mice an’ men. Gang aft a-gley”. Or, planning has made it easier for us the best laid plans of mice and to carry on during an incredibly men can still go wrong. It feels a difficult time. little like that at times; you can try to plan as best you can, but it The past year has probably helped doesn’t always turn out that way. focus our minds on what really Sometimes, you just need to go matters most to us. The little with the flow. things, which often make the As a Charity one thing we can never really plan for, or depend upon, is income we receive from people who have kindly 2
greatest impact on our health and wellbeing, that often get taken for granted are overlooked in our rush to live life on a daily basis.
