HEARTBEAT SPRING 2019
Reg. Charity No. 515668 Reg. Company No. 01850502
We have been overwhelmed by the wonderful support from our community since we launched our appeal a year ago, asking for help to build a bigger hospice so we can care for more people. Thanks to generous donations, we have already redeveloped some of the cramped areas of the hospice building in Wildwood Drive, Worcester, and welcomed patients and their loved ones to our bright and modern day rooms. Building work on the first stage of the project is due to be completed by the spring, giving us more space to support people who are living longer with increasingly complex conditions. Now, with your help, we are looking forward to completing our Build 2020 vision by creating a living well centre at the heart of our hospice where we can support hundreds more people each week.
Please help us raise the final £776,000 of our £5.3m expansion and redevelopment project so we can care for up to an extra 1,000 people a year. Turn overleaf to see the progress so far and find out how you can donate.
For the first time, the centre which we’re calling The Bradbury Centre thanks to generous support from the Bradbury Foundation - will give us the space we need to offer a range of supportive treatments, therapies and social activities that will make a huge difference not only to patients, but their families too. The centre will include therapy rooms for exercise, art, music and horticulture as well as counselling and an occupational therapy
training kitchen. All these will open onto The Green, a light new space where patients, carers, staff and visitors can gather together to eat and drink, meet friends, to sit after a therapeutic session - or just to connect with others who have come to the hospice for support. We can’t wait to continue our transformation of St Richard’s this year so we can offer free, expert care and support for people to live life to the fullest, as independently as they can, for as long as they can. June Patel, Chief Executive
