Dear Friends
Chief Executive, Anne Currie Holme family. Who knows we might even get some sunshine this year! As you will read in the newsletter, we continue to be blown away by all the fundraising activities and donations undertaken for the hospice during a challenging time for many. All these achievements help to provide the best care possible by the hospice teams for patients and their families within our community. Your kindness helps to make that difference. Thank you.
Welcome to the Summer edition of our newsletter. I’d like to take this opportunity to welcome Angie Smith to her new role as Chair of Trustees for the Charity and wish her every success. Angie brings a wealth of knowledge and experience of the health and social care sectors to the role. She is very keen to ensure that as we begin to emerge from the pandemic that the opportunities and lessons learnt from the last two years help to shape our organisation for the future to help meet the growing demands on Forest Holme’s services.
We are very pleased to be planning a refurbishment of Forest Holme. The hospice itself has not been decorated since 2013 with some of the rooms being untouched since the hospice was originally built in 1993. There is not only an obvious visible need for refurbishment due to significant wear and tear, but a practical need for more patient friendly facilities, functionality and overall space for the growing palliative and end-of-life care service. Our Board of Trustees have therefore allocated £400,000 towards the cost of the refurbishment with the hope It is really heartening to see so many that we can raise a similar about on top of events and fundraising activities return to that for the changes to be made. Watch the calendar. We really have missed them. this space… One of the most important days of the As well as the refurbishment, the Charity year for us is our Tie a Yellow Ribbon is very proud to commit to funding 16 event at the Hospice on June 16. We different members of staff within the would like to invite you join us this year inpatient ward, community, hospital, for a moment of quiet reflection whilst admin, education, therapy and counselling catching up with the rest of the Forest teams within the hospice. 2
