St Wilfrids Newsletter May 2011:Layout 1
28/4/11
13:58
Page 1
St Wilfrid’s Hospice
newsletter
Summer 2011
Level Best After a lot of hard work - both written and practical congratulations are in order for 10 of our auxiliary nurses who have completed the NVQ Level 3 Certificate in Palliative Care. The Certificate is a nationally recognised qualification which seeks to increase students’ knowledge and understanding of palliative care in a vocational setting. Closely mentored by Hospice Night Sister Siew-Ping Crane, who is an NVQ Assessor, the girls had to complete four modules over a period of five months to gain their qualification. Well done!
Pictured Siew-Ping Crane and six of her NVQ students.
A Marathon Effort “Overwhelming, amazing and tough,” – that’s what many of our runners said after taking part in either the Brighton or London Marathon in aid of St Wilfrid’s. And for Ali Archer it was all a bit too much as she sobbed as she crossed the Brighton finishing line and said, “It was a very emotional day, hot and hard. However, you can’t let people down, it’s a real duty to keep on going.” Ali had planned to walk and run the Marathon over its 26 mile course but found she had to run the first four miles before she settled into her pace. “The halfway stage was extremely hard because I had just reached the 13 mile marker as the leaders were heading for the finishing line!” Our heartiest congratulations to all our runners in the Brighton and London Marathons – you did us proud! Sadly some of our runners had to drop out through injury which means that their forfeited places will be added to our allocations for next year. We do hope you will be fighting fit soon. If you would like to run for the Hospice in 2012, either through the ballot or with one of our five golden bond places, please call Jill Dennison on 01243 755827.
Energetic Elves We received a letter from the ‘Energetic Elves’ a group of year 6 children at Aldingbourne Primary School who, as part of their PSHCE lessons, had to decide on a business they would like to run for a day, plan their activities and hopefully finish up with a nice big profit which would be donated to charity.
The team unanimously agreed to hold a mini Christmas fete and were given £25 to get their business up and running. They advertised the event at school and invited teachers and schoolmates to visit Santa’s Grotto, guess the number of Smarties on a cake, buy some yummy home made cakes or purchase a box of crackers. The event was a huge success and raised a total sum of £70.83 which was donated to the Hospice. The team chose to support us as, two years ago, one of the team member’s mothers was under our care. We were very impressed with their efforts and so pleased to meet such an
L-R Back row Michael Fowler, Nick Mahoney, Val Worthington, Joe Worthington, Laura Booth Front row Wendy Whelan, Justin Eggins, Alison Archer, Julie Longman enthusiastic team. A great big thank you to the ‘Energetic Elves’ and we do hope to see you all again in the not too distant future. We are always amazed at young people’s generosity
and are happy to come into schools to talk about the Hospice and ideas for fundraising. If you are interested please give Jill Dennison a call on 01243 755827.
St Wilfrid’s Hospice welcomes your support. Telephone to find out how you can help us:
01243 775302
www.stwh.co.uk
1