Birthday celebrations for Swan Fund

About 20 people helped the Swan Fund celebrate its eighth birthday with a lovely coffee morning and raffle.

Jules Lewis, Swan End of Life Care (EOLC) Facilitator and Lead Nurse, set up the fund in 2015 after her dad sadly passed away. It raises money to support people at end of life and those important to them.

It was also a time to give a big thank you to the EOLC volunteers and knitters of ‘kindness hearts’ (the hearts are gifted to a person in their last hours and days of life and an identical heart gifted to loved ones) who were invited along to the event at SECC.

A raffle was also held. The first prize of a signed painting by Roy Lilley, health writer, commentator and artist, was won by Matt Taylor, of SECC, and Sarah Thomas, Senior Education Business Partner, won the second prize of two bottles of Tanners wine. There were many other winners of other lovely prizes.

Jules Lock, Swan Lead EOLC Volunteer, baked an amazing swan cake for the coffee morning and can be seen cutting it with Jules Lewis.

Jules Lewis and her friend Becks also walked 15 miles from Welshpool to Newtown in MidWales to also raise cash for the Swan Fund’s birthday and to mark NHS75.

“Thank you to our amazing Penny, Deb and Miriam for helping and supporting the event it was a real team effort, it was so lovely to meet the knitters and see our Swan EOLC volunteers to say thank you for all they do,” said Jules.

“The raffle raised £160 and the walk £400, which I am so pleased about and it’s rather lovely that it’s a similar amount to what we started the Swan Fund with eight years ago£500 from my dad’s funeral donations.”

The Swan Fund has raised almost £78,000 in eight years.