Charity Update

Congratulations to 'Hidden Heroes' Karen Hesketh, Dave Manns and Jill Biles (above and right) who were nominated by their fellow volunteers to receive a stay at one of a selection of hotels across the UK courtesy of our partnership with volunteer-recognition charity Room to Reward.

Joe (above) from Room to Reward very kindly came to our recent volunteers 'Thank You' Coffee Morning (left) at Rick Stein in Sandbanks to surprise our winners.

Stewart at Pondtek - who regularly maintains our courtyard pond - has started a new venture called Pondbox, which is a pond food subscription service. You can find it at Pondbox.co.uk and they provide a box every two months that includes fish food and pond advice and they have given this service to the hospice complete free, with tips that will be useful to the volunteers that look after our pond. Rachel (right) from the company recently delivered our first box.

The hospice had a lovely surprise from Stewarts Garden Centres (right) , who delivered this blooming huge donation of beautiful flowers and plants for our hospice garden and staff.

A big thank you to 15-year-old Ewan Barents (left), a pupil at Corfe Hills School, who completed one week's work experience with the fundraising team and was presented with a certificate by his Auntie Vanessa from the Hospital Palliative Care Team.

After nine years of dedicated service on the Board, the Charity would like to thank Dr Stephen Kirkham (right) for his vast contribution to the life-enhancing work of the hospice, first as a clinician and then latterly as our Chair of Trustees.

We wish Stephen a very happy retirement and we are delighted to welcome Angie as our new Chair. (see p18) The charity also recently said goodbye to our fundraiser Charlie (right), who after five years as a fundraiser at Forest Holme Hospice has moved on to start a new adventure at MYTIME Young Carers.