Saturday 28 September 2024 | Royal Jersey Showground
“This tree is not only a tree, it is a tree of possibilities. From its roots deep in the ground, to its branches high in the sky. Bringing the power of the earth reminding us of love, life, strength and guidance. It is where everything begins. It is the tree of life.”
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We are delighted to be back at The Royal Jersey Showground for what is our 5th charity ball as we celebrate, amongst other things, the Tree of Life. As well as being the theme for our ball this year, it's an important symbol for Hospice. Every day our team provide specialist outstanding care so our patients and their loved ones can live life to the full and build lasting precious memories together.
The last time we were in this room we were celebrating Hospice’s 40th anniversary year. Over the past two years, we have both been immensely proud to see our charity go from strength to strength. A highlight of last year, in October, was the launch of the first island-wide Palliative and End-of-Life Care Strategy for Adults in Jersey, which we proudly led on with Health & Community Services. This strategy aims to provide the foundation for the island to move strongly and confidently towards delivering the best possible support for all islanders and their families throughout their end of life journey.
We know that the island’s population is ageing, and this will mean an increasing demand for good palliative care. We have exciting plans to expand and develop existing and new services. This will ensure that all islanders can get the best possible support and be cared for and die in the place of their choosing. For most people approaching the end of their lives, that means in their own home.
islanders received care throughout 2023
We also intend to provide more support to the large numbers of family carers doing a critical and demanding role, often unsupported.
It costs more than £6 million a year to deliver our services and without your support, we couldn't do what we do. Our plans are ambitious and will demand more resources - more volunteers helping across Hospice and more funding, from Government, retail, and fundraising. We remain forever grateful to you, our supporters, who have fundraised, volunteered, and donated generously over the years.
Thank you in anticipation of your crucial support tonight and into the future.
You’re the reason we can care.
Enjoy the evening.
Goetz Eggelhoefer Chair of Trustees
Mike Palfreman Chief Executive
Champagne reception
Welcome
Dinner
Silent auction
A short film
Live auction
Thank you
Dancing
Carriages at 23:45
Starter
Tartiflette Bruschetta
Lardons, leeks, onions, reblochon on grilled rustic bread
Or
Mushroom Tartiflette Bruschetta
Mushrooms, leeks, onions, reblochon on grilled rustic bread
Main Course
Chargrilled fillet of beef
Oxtail croquette, baby watercress, peppercorn sauce, dauphinoise potatoes
Or Spanakopita
Filo pastry, leeks, spinach, feta, roasted red pepper sauce
Dessert
Trio of desserts
Mango pavlova, kirsch chocolate brownie, cinnamon apple tart
Or
Coconut crème caramel
Fresh mango
Tea and coffee with petit fours
1,820 home visits made by our Specialist Palliative Care Team in 2023
We are delighted to welcome Edward Rising to Jersey as he kindly supports us for our auction tonight. Over the past 25 years, Edward has worked for most of London’s top auction houses – including an eight-year stint as a senior auctioneer for Sotheby’s. During this time, he was entrusted with chairing some of Sotheby’s most highprofile auctions, such as the collection of the late Gianni Versace, which sold for £7.4 million. He still works within the Fine Art world, conducting various auctions around the globe. He also dedicates much of his time to raising funds for charities with his sought after and unique auctioneering style.
Create a very special evening with friends or family in your own home, working with top chef, Mike Jennings, to create a bespoke seven course tasting menu for eight people.
Mike is Chef Director of the Hospitality Hut and has more than 25 years’ experience working in some of the finest restaurants in the UK. Most notably was his time spent at Bohemia, between 2003 and 2010, where Lawrence Huggler, Owner of The Club Hotel & Spa, described him an integral part of the team when they first achieved their Michelin star. He then went on to work at Nigel Howarth’s Northcote and took his first head chef position under the late Gary Rhodes OBE. Mike is passionate about Jersey produce with one of his signature dishes being grilled mackerel.
Dates exclude 20 December 2024 to 2 January 2025. This lot has been purchased by Jersey Hospice Care.
A very special treat for any fans of Downton Abbey and The Gilded Age. Lord and Lady Fellowes of West Stafford (Julian and Emma) are delighted to host two guests for lunch and chat all things Downton Abbey.
With the release of the third Downtown Abbey film expected next year, here is your chance to ask Julian all those questions you may have wondered about the characters that we’ve taken into our homes and hearts since 2010!
Dates to be mutually agreed with no expiry. Flights and accommodation are not included.
Kindly donated by Lord and Lady Fellowes.
14 nights in a luxury villa in St Lucia
Sugar Beach, a Viceroy Resort, is nestled between St Lucia's iconic Pitons on a World Heritage site. The resort is consistently ranked as one of the top 5-star hotels in the Caribbean and won the prestigious World Travel Awards ‘Caribbean Leading Luxury Resort 2023’. This incredible lot is for an Ocean View Grand Luxury one bedroom villa.
Villa 503 is regarded as the best located villa at Sugar Beach. It can accommodate up to three adults plus one child – so perfect for a family – and comes with its own plunge pool and butler service. As well as the accommodation, this lot also includes $500 per day ‘resort credits’ to be spent in resort on food, beverages, spa treatments and water sport activities.
Dates to be mutually agreed. Six months’ notice is required for high season bookings (11 December to 14 days after Easter Sunday) or three months in low season. Flights not included.
Kindly donated by the owners of Villa 503.
‘The air we breathe’ by David Prescott and Iain Alexander
Specially commissioned by Jersey Hospice Care, this unique sculpture has been created in a first-of-its-kind collaboration between artists David Prescott and Iain Alexander. Set in six mounted sheets of float laminate glass, the sculpture depicts the air we breath through the love of the environment. The bespoke hand crafted shattered detailing creates the foundation for the mesmerising mixed media metallic leaf addition, bringing this sculpture to its grand finish.
Both artists have hit headlines recently with David’s portrait of King Charles III entitled ‘HRH C III See Me Now’, being displayed in Voisins Department Store window during the recent Royal visit. And, Iain’s portrait of H.M Queen Elizabeth II, which raised an incredible £90,000 at our Ruby Ball in 2022, and the original of which now resides in Windsor Castle.
This lot has been purchased by Jersey Hospice Care.
With a waiting list extending into years - tonight is the night to get your hands (well… wrist) on the iconic Rolex Cosmograph Daytona. Launched in 1963, its name, inextricably linked to the famous racetrack, as well as its graphic face, have made it a legend!
A meeting of two metals - the Perpetual Rolex Cosmograph Daytona in Oystersteel and yellow gold with a white dial and contrasting counter rings. This beautiful watch features an Oyster bracelet for strength and reliability and a yellow gold bezel coveted for its lustre and nobility, with an engraved tachymetric scale.
Kindly donated by Hettich.
“The word magical might be strange to understand but it was the most special time I’ve ever lived. I’ll always remember the warmth and friendship of the brilliant staff and the beauty of the place.”
Aurélie, patient’s wife
Premium hospitality and tickets for four people to England vs Scotland on Saturday 22 February 2025. Nothing beats the rivalry of the Calcutta Cup, which is the oldest trophy contested between any two international rugby union teams.
This exciting experience includes:
A private table for four people with pitch views in the East Wing.
Hospitality Suite (opens four hours pre-match) along with middle tier match seating within the 22m lines.
Enjoy a five-course meal with drinks served throughout the day, including half time drinks in the suite and post-match cocktails.
Socialise with rugby legends including an ex-player Q&A post-match.
Flights and accommodation not included. Kindly donated by the Tyrer Family.
‘Only
This exclusive artwork using acrylic paint and digital collage on canvas forms part of Jersey born artist, Charlie Haydn Taylor’s 2024 ‘The Space Between’ exhibition in Seoul. Now based in London, Charlie’s work evokes a sense of contemplation and isolation, where the lines between the fictional and autobiographical collide. The stylistic approach of using photography collaged alongside flat, block colour paint is done in order to create a new, fictional reality where the interiors exist but still appear recognisable due to the sum of its parts.
Dimensions of the artwork are 127cm x 91cm.
Kindly donated anonymously.
Your guide to Givergy, the online bidding platform for our silent auction.
Please use the tablets provided or scan the QR code below to use your own device.
In his book, ‘A Beginners Guide To Dying’, inspirational islander, Simon Boas, wrote incredibly openly and honestly about his thoughts on life and death, following his terminal cancer diagnosis in February this year. While Simon was under our care, we asked him if he would share some of those thoughts with us, focusing particularly on the importance of talking about death and dying.
“Modern western societies have an unhealthy relationship with dying. We pretend it won’t happen, we hide it and run from it, or try to drown it out with pleasures and purchases. We medicalise it, and too often only speak about it right at the end when it has become unignorable (and even then only in frightened whispers). But dying really is as natural a part of our existence as birth and love and friendship. And thinking about it has amazing power to improve our lives.
Most of us spend far too long concerned about things which are ultimately quite trivial. We worry about status and money and the unkind thing somebody said about us at work. We get really cross about the bloody potholes, or politics, or the neighbour’s new fence. We squabble and fall out with friends and loved ones. Worse, we get trapped in jobs we hate or relationships from which love has disappeared. Death puts all of this into perspective.
Your existence is a precious gift, and you are the embodiment of a series of unbelievably unlikely coincidences that enabled our Goldilocks blue planet to form (neither too hot nor too cold), for it to teem with this wondrous inexplicable thing called life, and for you yourself to exist when just a tiny change would have meant that sperm never met that egg.
“We need to talk about death more, prepare for it, and accept it.”
And, as it must be for us to be truly human, all of this is finite. Realising this early on helps us appreciate our good fortune in living at all, and I think it can also make us more compassionate towards others, all of whom are in the same boat.
We need to talk about death more, prepare for it, and accept it. Hospices are experts in it, and they need to be living, breathing parts of our communities, like libraries and sports clubs and places of worship. Demystifying death and welcoming it into our lives helps us meet it with equanimity when it comes, but also helps us lead more meaningful, joyful lives, however much sand actually remains in our hourglasses.”
Simon Boas
2,059 sessions provided by our Bereavement and Emotional Support Team in 2023
Jersey Hospice Timeline
1990s
Founded by Jurat Mrs Jean King MBE. 1982
First Hospice shop opened. 1990 Hospice relocated to Mont Cochon. 1995 In Patient Unit expanded. 2012 The King Centre opens. 2013
2010s
Clarkson House opened in Grouville. 1985
Bereavement Services began. 1986
1980s
Million Pound Lottery launched. 2001
2000s
St Ouen shop opens. 2006
Services expanded to babies, children and young people. 2017
2023
2020s Palliative End-of-Life Strategy for Adults launched.
The Tree of Life is the theme for our ball this year, an important symbol for Hospice, it is also representative of our journey to become a more sustainable organisation, elements of which you will see at tonight’s ball.
Where possible, we have kept printed items to a minimum and tonight's floral arrangements will be either planted in the Hospice garden or displayed in patient's rooms.
Our charity shops champion sustainable shopping, encouraging islanders to donate their much loved items and to wear preloved clothes and accessories. Every year, our shops save approximately 100 tonnes of clothes from going to landfill and have allowed for around 12,000 books to be read again.
At Clarkson House, we have one of the largest banks of solar panels on the island. To date, we have produced more than 75MWh of power - that's equivalent to planting nearly 900 trees, saving 30,000kg of CO₂ emissions. In our gardens, we grow as much fruit and vegetables as we can to use in our kitchen and many of our plants are grown from seed in our greenhouses.
As we look to the future, we will continue to look for ways to reduce our impact on the environment and further care for our planet.
Our shops save 100 tonnes of clothes from landfill every year
A heartfelt thank you for joining us tonight and making it a special and memorable evening. Your support will touch the lives of many people in our island community.
We would also like to say thank you to the following individuals and organisations for helping to make tonight possible.
Our generous Ball sponsors and:
3rd Above Entertainment
Bigwoods Premier Printers
David Prescott
Edward Rising
Europcar
Event helpers
Goetz & Fiona Eggelhoefer
Harpers Catering
Hettich
Iain Alexander
Jonathan Wills
La Mare Wine Estate
Lord & Lady Fellowes
Mike Jennings
Owners of Villa 503
Rob, for sharing his story
Royal Jersey Showground
Stage 2 Productions
The Club Hotel & Spa
Tyrer Family
Kind donors of brilliant Silent Auction lots.
Our incredible Hospice volunteers and colleagues.
“You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.”
Dame
Cicely Saunders,
Founder of the hospice
care movement