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Life under lockdown Read about the changes your hospice has made during the pandemic

Are you ready to quiz? Lottery winner! Finding new ways to test your knowledge. Read about how an NHS hero scooped our See pages 4 & 5 jackpot on page 9

Hitting the high street Thank you one and all Our shops are re-opening. See page 8 How your kindness has kept us going. See page 11 FEATURE | PAM'S PERSPECTIVE Your thoughts Pam's Perspective on Living with I am so thankful for the whole Hospice family, staff and volunteers, Dignity for coming together to put patients and families first in very difficult circumstances.

Alongside continuing to provide care, implementing Government guidelines has been a priority. We have worked hard to obtain sufficient PPE, to implement testing for staff and for patients on the ward, and to carry out immunity testing for staff and volunteers. What do you love most about Living with Dignity? As ever I am grateful for all that Would you like to help shape the you do for Saint Francis Hospice, Pam Court future of this magazine? We want especially at such a challenging time. to make sure you enjoy reading it We have been overwhelmed with and it gives you a valuable insight The last few months have been offers of help, including meals for of what is happening at your local a whirlwind. Hospice life is staff on long shifts and PPE. It is Hospice. unrecognisable from what we humbling to see everyone working would have described just months together to make sure we can We are looking at making changes ago. continue to care for people when to the magazine but we can’t do they need it most. that without you. We would love Covid-19 and the lockdown have to know what you think of it. had a huge impact on how we care Unfortunately, we have been unable for people at the end of their lives. to carry out our normal fundraising What do you like reading most, Thanks to your support and the activities through the lockdown, so what would you like to read more dedication and innovation of our a number of our fundraising team or less about? Please take two teams, we have been able to keep have been furloughed, as were minutes to share your views and our ward open, albeit with some most retail staff, as our shops were you could also be in with a restrictions, and found a safe way for closed. Happily, our shop chance of winning a £100 families to visit their loved ones. re-opened safely on 29th June with amazon voucher. more due to open in July. Care in the community Please visit However, this has caused a significant Our community teams have also and click loss in funds and while we are www.sfh.org.uk/lwd had to change the way they care on the link to take our survey for people at home. Our nurses grateful for the Government’s now wear PPE and maintain social financial support, it will still be a real Don’t forget to complete your distancing as much as possible. Many challenge to raise the money we contact details so we can enter families have requested help via need for the rest of the year. you into the prize draw to win a phone, giving staff the opportunity to £100 amazon voucher! speak to and help even more people Finally, I want to reassure you that we Prize draw deadline is 5pm Friday every day. are working proactively on ‘working safely for the future’, and although 28th August 2020 and the prize draw will take place on Tuesday We now have 1,100 wonderful things are likely to be different, with 1st September 2020. volunteers, all sharing their skills, your help Saint Francis Hospice will talent and time to keep the Hospice be here for many years to come, operating. While many are currently giving outstanding, compassionate unable to help due to restrictions, I care and support to people in our look forward to welcoming everyone boroughs. back in due course. Pam Court VOUCHER CEO 2 | LIVING WITH DIGNITY | Summer 2020 www.sfh.org.uk FEATURE | OUR SERVICES Adapting amid the pandemic of social distancing and the lockdown resulting in OrangeLine users feeling even more alone and isolated.

"Many receiving bereavement therapy became disheartened that sessions couldn't be held in person, which created another need for care," Tes said.

There isn't one of our services that hasn't had to adapt, and Tes thanks everyone at our Hospice for adjusting so that we can continue to deliver throughout the pandemic.

When the coronavirus reached also people's fear of us bringing the "We have to behave as though the UK in January, Saint Francis coronavirus into their households. everyone has tested positive Hospice faced an enormous for Covid-19," Tes explained. challenge. Our Hospice promptly "Our Hospice at Home team "People have been accepting and put measures in place so that we discovered that delivering care with understanding, which is a testament could continue our services and a smile behind a mask, and not to our staff and the community." provide our patients with the care being able to touch, is an enormous they need. challenge," Tes revealed. Many hospitals and care homes swiftly put a stop to visitors. Tes Saint Francis Hospice's Director of Tes and the team faced another revealed that the decision on people Quality and Care, Tes Smith, cites our perplexity: they didn't know how visiting our ward was one of the Hospice acting quickly in the first two many of our patients would be living hardest we've had to make in our months of the pandemic as crucial. with Covid-19. 35-year history. "We had to get ahead and prepare for the possibility of the infection "Delivering end of life care, alongside We simply couldn't deprive rate soaring, which soon became a multiple health conditions, suddenly people of visiting their reality," she recalled. became even more complex with the added threat of Covid-19," Tes loved ones in what could When people think about our admitted. be their final moments," Hospice, Tes acknowledged that the she said. "It's a credit to first thing that springs to mind for One significant service change was everyone that visitors many is the care we provide on our the temporary closure of Pemberton ward. Yet, we are so much bigger Place: our social hub for people living are still safely welcomed than just our Hospice site. Four out with life-limiting illnesses. at Saint Francis Hospice of five people we care for are in the to cherish those precious community. "Pemberton Place is a lifeline for many," Tes declared. "We didn't want moments. These services include Hospice at to cut that aid off entirely. We've Home, Community Clinical Nurse been in regular contact with our Specialists, bereavement support, outpatients through phone calls — To support the Hospice during and occupational, complementary, supporting them both mentally and these difficult times, please visit and physiotherapy. physically." www.sfh.org.uk/nurse. Every donation helps, however small. Many of our teams are hands-on and OrangeLine is our service for those in people's homes. Not only do they in need of friendly conversation. The have to manage social distancing, but team has been alert to the possibility www.sfh.org.uk Summer 2020 | LIVING WITH DIGNITY | 3 Round 1: General Knowledge Round 3: Sport 1. Which politician served as Mayor 1. In Rugby Union, which two of from 2008? countries play for the Calcutta 2. What type of pastry is used to Cup? make profiteroles? 2. What year did the famous ‘Hand 3. Wolf Hall won the Man Booker of God’ by Diego Maradona take Prize in 2009, but who was its place? author? 3. What colour karate belt is a 4. What is the most consumed beginner required to wear? manufactured drink in the world? 4. In golf, what does the term 5. What is Ringo Starr’s real name? ‘albatross’ mean? 6. In the phonetic alphabet, which 5. In the decathlon, how many Your free quiz word represents the letter D? events take place on the track? 7. What is the official currency of 6. Which tennis Grand Slam In such uncertain times, our Hungary? tournament is held in January? shops have had to close and our 8. Who pioneered the airship? 7. Which present English cricket fundraising events have been international was born in New postponed. Zealand, before moving to at the age of 12? This means our fundraising is 8. ‘The Rumble in the Jungle’, a suffering, and we are now even historic boxing event took place more reliant on our supporters and on October 30th 1974 between members of our community, cue which two boxers? the Little Orange Quiz Lockdown Edition! Round 2: Film

1. Which 1990 gangster movie is Quizzing is one of our favourite based on the biography of Henry pastimes here in the UK - but Hill? during this time of lockdown, due to 2. IMDB cites this film about two the coronavirus pandemic, our love friends, Andy and Red as the best of testing our general knowledge film of all time, can you name the has had to go online. title? 3. Which famous cowboy directed As supporters of the Hospice, we’re 2014’s Jersey Boys? giving you edition 1 of the quiz to 4. “I do wish we could chat longer, trial with your friends and family! but I’m having an old friend for dinner. Bye.” is the closing line to what film? Here are the questions for 5. Tom Hanks famously voices edition 1. You’ll find the Woody from Toy Story, but who answers on page 11. voices Buzz Lightyear? We hope you love it and will 6. Name the main character in The download future editions – Big Lebowski? we’re offering a new quiz to 7. Many actors have taken on the download each week for a role of Robin Hood. But which donation of just £3. Welsh actor was most recent? 8. “You don’t get to 500 million www.sfh.org.uk/shop/quiz friends without making a few enemies” is the tagline from which movie?

4 | LIVING WITH DIGNITY | Summer 2020 www.sfh.org.uk Round 4: When Dave heard about the financial Technology and Social Media Dave gets hit our Hospice is taking from the pandemic, he prepared a night to 1. How many characters were remember. Dave downloaded our Little originally allowed in a Tweet, when Orange Quiz pack, combined it with the Twitter first launched in 2006? quizzical questions he had been meticulously 2. Which Microsoft program produces concocting, and hosted the contest via files with the extension ‘ppt.’? Zoom. 3. What does the text acronym ‘FOMO’ stand for? Dave admitted that being quizmaster 4. Who is the most followed person to 64 teams consisting of hundreds of on Instagram? people - including many strangers - 5. What does IBM stand for in the was a little nerve-wracking at first. Yet name of the IT Company? once the quizzers' donations (and drink) 6. To nearest 5%, what percentage started flowing, the task in hand slowly of the global population use the Dave Oakley became a little less daunting. internet? 7. The original Apple logo included Dave's Little Orange Quiz raised over a which famous scientist? With trips to friends and family off- whopping £1,700 for our Hospice — 8. Which word is used to describe bounds amid social distancing, Saint thank you to everyone who contributed. someone who deliberately tries to Francis Hospice's online quizzes have offend others on social media? kept a close-knit group for many. We'll release a new set of quiz questions each week, and you can Round 5: History Our supporters have satisfied their download them by visiting 1. Which member of the British royal quizzical cravings while raising money www.sfh.org.uk/shop/quiz for just family was murdered by the IRA in for us by playing our Little Orange £3. This money will will help local 1979? Quiz: Lockdown Edition. One of people with life-limiting illnesses 2. London’s ‘Monument’ is a those is Dave Oakley. monument to which historical event? 3. The Second Indochina War started in 1955, what other name was it known by? 4. Richard III died at which battle? 5. John F Kennedy married Jacqueline in 1953, but what was her maiden name? 6. The Tower of London (The White Tower) was built by which ruler? 7. In 1953, Edmund Hillary was the Friday 28th August 2020 first man to reach the summit of 7.30pm start Everest along with which other person? 8. The first Holy Roman Emperor died Your quiz host in 814. What was his name? Steve Davis

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www.sfh.org.uk SummerAutumn 2020 | LIVING WITH DIGNITY | 5 FEATURE | FUNDRAISING GOES VIRTUAL Fundraising goes virtual Colin still wanted to do something In recent months, with social to help patients under our care. That distancing in place and restrictions 'something' was to take part in the placed on events and activities, nation's 2.6 Challenge. we have had to adapt to a more virtual style of fundraising. The concept was simple: do something around the numbers 26 You can read below about some of or 2.6 and complete it on 26th April, the creative and truly inspiring ways which would've been the date of the supporters have been raising vital 2020 London Marathon. funds for us. And find out how you could join them - some from the Colin completed a brisk walk around comfort of your own sofa! the streets of in 33 Julie keeps on running minutes — proving there's plenty of Julie Buckley was all geared up to mileage left in his legs yet. He raised run her third London Marathon for an incredible £1,000 in the process. our Hospice in April — until it was rearranged for October. But that didn't stop her.

On the weekend the Marathon was due to take place, Julie took centre stage on her driveway. At 7am, she strode onto her treadmill, adorned with our famous orange balloons, to take her first step of over 50,000.

Alfie's locks "In the six and a half hours it took Ever since we cared for Alfie to complete, I was never on my Dunsdon's dad, he has been a prolific own," she recalled. "I was either on fundraiser for our Hospice. FaceTime to family and friends, or neighbours were hanging out of Busking a move Alfie's most recent fundraising mission their windows, cheering me on." Skip Atkins is one of our most was to shave off his luscious locks — dedicated supporters. Skip’s live on the Internet. connection with our Hospice began in 2016 when we cared for his He even managed to convince 13 wife, Jan, after a diagnosis of breast friends to shave their heads on cancer. the same stream — raising over a whopping £3,000 for us. Since then, Skip has been here, there and everywhere for our Hospice "He had such a lovely head of hair — all — recording patients' life stories, curly!" said a proud mum, who is taking volunteering and fundraising. solace in that it will all grow back. Throughout the lockdown, Skip has been busking in Upminster — There are countless ways you can entertaining the socially-distanced continue to raise money for our queue for Waitrose. Hospice during the coronavirus 2.6 for Colin pandemic, and we're here to support When the PM asked everyone "People's generosity has been you every step of the way. in the UK over 70 to self-isolate captivating," said Skip, who’s raised You can get in touch with us at back in March, ward volunteer over £1,600 by playing tunes from [email protected] Colin Cornell didn't want to take the 1950s to the present day. any chances. There are countless ways you can 6 | LIVING WITH DIGNITY | Summer 2020 continue to raise money for our Hospice during the coronavirus pandemic, and we're here to support you every step of the way. You can get in touch with us at [email protected]

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In recent months, as the world has Our priority was, of course, to keep faced an unprecedented health everyone safe – patients, families – who have been able to visit loved Every week, someone will win up to crisis, a major focus for the media ones throughout this period – staff £1,000. The rollover prize can reach in the UK has been the work in and volunteers. We were keen to a whopping £25,000. You can sign up NHS hospitals, where staff have implement systems to ensure the for less than £5 a month by visiting undergone huge change in order to continue to care for people while safety and wellbeing of all concerned, www.sfh.org.uk/lottery coping with the fallout of the so approached BHRUT who provided Covid-19 pandemic. training so we could test patients and any staff or volunteers showing Urgent Appeal Hospices haven’t had quite the same Covid-19 symptoms. profile, but all around the UK, we have also been on the frontline, quietly We also recently offered immunity getting on with what we do best – testing to all staff and volunteers, caring for people at the end of their wherever they work in the charity, one lives and being there for families who of the first UK hospices to do so. are facing the imminent loss of a loved Throughout, our strong relationship one. with BHRUT and Queen's Hospital, You can support our nurses through as well as our other NHS partners the pandemic for as little as £3 a month Saint Francis Hospice is no different. in Barking & , Havering, by visiting www.sfh.org.uk/nurse From the first indication of this Brentwood and West Essex, has pandemic, we have sought to do been invaluable, and we have been everything in our power to make recognised as a key part of the NHS Give a gift of care sure we can continue to be here for family. everyone who needs us. We have been delighted to offer End Being prepared of Life training to NHS colleagues Very early on, we secured supplies to support other parts of the NHS of essential PPE. Without it, nurses economy as together we seek to and doctors would not have been meet the increasing demand for this able to care for people, either at the specialist care. When it comes to buying a unique Hospice or in their homes, so this was present for someone special, it can be a vital. We gratefully received donations During the pandemic, it seems like we real challenge. Why not choose a Gift of from business supporters, then have carried out more activity, care Care? obtained supplies via the Mutual Aid and support than ever before. This has scheme run by Barking, Havering and certainly been made easier with a little Find out more by visiting Redbridge University Hospitals NHS help from our friends! www.sfh.org.uk/virtual-shop Trust (BHRUT) at Queen's Hospital in Romford. www.sfh.org.uk Summer 2020 | LIVING WITH DIGNITY | 7 FEATURE | SHOPS BACK IN BUSINESS Our shops are starting to re-open

Not only do our shops offer Donation Stations Gift Aid bargains galore, they are also a These Donation Stations are located If you normally Gift Aid your donated vital source of income for our at the Romford Electrical Store in goods, you will notice when you are Hospice. South Street, Romford RM1 1NX next in one of our stores that we and at our warehouse in Unit 10, are now are offering key fobs so that All of our shops have been closed Ashton Gate, Romford RM3 8UF. All you can easily keep your Gift Aid since March but, following the donations need to be quarantined for number to hand. If you are a UK tax government’s announcement that 72 hours to reduce the risk of any payer, Gift Aid is a great way to give all non-essential shops were able to infection. Opening hours will change additional support to Saint Francis open from 15th June, the hard work according to the level of donations Hospice at no extra cost to yourself. has commenced to get them ready we receive, please check our website Ask in one of our stores for more to reopen. or social media channels for updates. details. Thank you for your patience in Our first store to open was Romford advance. We look forward to seeing you all South Street on 29th June. again soon. Adaptations were made, including Our Donation Stations have been installation of till screens, to ensure operating where possible however To keep up to date with the that customers can shop safely and some shops and premises have latest news on our store observe the government guidance of had to close due to government openings, please visit our website 2m social distancing. We hope that guidelines. By the time you read this, www.sfh.org.uk or keep in touch via by the time you read your copy of we hope many will have re-opened. our social media channels. You can this magazine, six more of our shops also call our Retail Head Office on will be open or getting ready to open. As many move to online shopping, 01708 376269. we’ll also be expanding the range of Unfortunately for the time being we goods that we offer online via our Please do not leave donations will not be able to pick up furniture or website www.sfh.org.uk. unless the store is open. We cannot collect donated items but the good With this increased online provision, take goods left outside the store news is that we’ve now opened two we’ll be needing the support of due to health and safety reasons. Donation Stations where you can volunteers both old and new. No drop off your donations. experience is needed! Please check our website for more information.

8 | LIVING WITH DIGNITY | Summer 2020 www.sfh.org.uk FEATURE | GIFTS IN WILLS NHS hero scoops Our shops are starting to re-open Lottery win A family pledge - Irene's story

The Crisp family

Nichola Crisp is one of the nation's Irene and Les Duffett NHS heroes. All of our key workers are getting the praise they fully My sister and I have left our homes We’ve never fallen out and neither deserve right now, and what better as gifts to help future patients like of us have children. We’re both realistic way to thank one of them by Les. about getting older and dying, and we handing them a winning ticket on both want to leave something behind the Saint Francis Hospice Lottery? Les didn’t know he was sick for quite that will help others. a long while. He was a hairdresser and Nichola is a Community Midwife at used to come home complaining that We, and Jean’s husband Jim, have all Queen's Hospital in Romford. She he was really tired and his legs ached. decided to leave our homes to Saint recently won £1,000 in our weekly But being a ‘man’s man’ he thought Francis Hospice in our Wills, because I draw, and her family is now one step nothing of it. Eventually he had tests know how much they need the money closer to their dream holiday at Disney and it turned out he had blood cancer. to take care of patients. World in Florida. After about a year, we realised it was time for him to go into Saint Francis I still miss Les and the feeling of Nichola admitted that the coronavirus Hospice; even though he loved being at emptiness never quite goes away. But, outbreak has changed the dynamics home with me, he didn’t want to be in even though he is not here, he still of how she works but had nothing but pain. gives me strength. He would really praise for her colleagues. approve of the decision we’ve all made. So safe and cared for Saint Francis Hospice is definitely the "We're a tremendous team. We can't At the hospice, Les couldn’t ask for best place to be when illness means do face-to-face visits at the moment, more. The nurses were always around time is short. no home births are allowed, and we're and even the tea lady made sure he following new protective measures to was cared for and comfortable. I used Paul Gwinn, Bob Weatherstone and keep everyone safe. We've had to find to stay the night by his bedside and Malcolm Miller, trustees of Saint different ways of working, but the most they looked after me too. The nurses Francis Hospice have, like Irene, left important thing is that we're still doing were lovely and right there whenever gifts in their Wills. They are leading our our job and delivering healthy babies." he wanted anything. Nothing was too new Leave A Gift in Your Will Appeal, much trouble. Les felt so safe. launching soon to make sure that Every week, someone will win up to patients of the future have the same £1,000 in our draw. The rollover prize We celebrated Les’s 65th birthday in dedicated care that Les appreciated so can reach a whopping £25,000. the Hospice. We had balloons and lots very much. of people turned up for a little party. If you'd like to be in with a chance He died four days later and I dedicated If you would like to follow in Irene’s of hitting the jackpot while doing a leaf to him on the Memory Tree. It footsteps and change your Will to something incredible for people living was the very first leaf on the tree. include a gift to Saint Francis Hospice, with life-limiting illnesses, you can please contact Susan Spencer, Legacy sign up for our Lottery for less than A gift that will help lots of local Manager on 01708 771403 £5 per month by visiting people or email [email protected] www.sfh.org.uk/lottery My sister Jean and I are very close.

www.sfh.org.uk Summer 2020 | LIVING WITH DIGNITY | 9 FEATURE | REMEMBERING A LOVED ONE Ron's story A tribute to Michelle Michelle took solace in that treatment was available, and people had lived for many years with the same illness. She underwent medical trials, changed her diet, and researched natural remedies that she could use alongside her chemotherapy. Ronald Wilson

After responding well to treatment for over four years, tests revealed that When our Hospice at Home team the cancer spread further to Michelle's stepped in to care for Ronald brain. It was Michelle's wish to pass Wilson, the country was rooted in away at our Hospice for the sake of her lockdown. Ron, 95, had suffered a children, Lydia and Sia, aged eight and stroke. twelve. Seventy-six years earlier, Ron played Two weeks later our Hospice team his part in the largest seaborne broke the news to Chris that Michelle invasion in history. He was one was showing all the signs that her of the 156,000 Allied troops in passing was imminent. Michelle passed 7,000 vessels that stormed across away peacefully at our Hospice in May. the English Channel to German- She was 50 years old. occupied Normandy — at the tender age of 19. "Even though we were at the Hospice for less than a day, I'll never forget the Ron would often recall how he care and dignity the nurses gave her," disobeyed his Captain's orders and Michelle Ttoffali Chris said. "We were able to spend our saved the life of a young soldier who last moments together in the privacy went overboard: that we needed." A Tribute Fund is a special place Wilson! Get back on online where you can remember a Due to social distancing rules, only 10 the doors," the Captain loved one and raise money for Saint people could attend Michelle's funeral. Francis Hospice in their memory. Chris set up the Tribute Fund for those shouted. "If you don't, then who couldn't be present but wanted to I'll shoot you! When the Ttoffali family from celebrate Michelle's life. Upminster lost someone very dear Ron put his life at risk and managed to them, social distancing meant that "I put the whole order of service on to haul the teenager back onto the many people were unable to offer the page so that people could play vessel. their support in person. They have the songs and read the poems we since found comfort in messages and had chosen from their homes," Chris Ron's daughter, Lorraine, duly donations through a Tribute Fund for explained. Michelle's friends and family accepted that it was time for her the late and much-loved Michelle have shared stories, photos and videos Dad's remarkable life to reach an end. Ttoffali. in her memory. "The Hospice's nurses were so Michelle was just 45 years old when "Michelle brought laughter, joy, love incredibly kind and calming," she she was diagnosed with metastatic and friendship to many," Chris said. "Her recalled. "Dad remained gracious and breast cancer, which had reached her smile and love for life would light up the would always thank them for looking spine and ribs. room, and her spirit will always be with after him. He wasn't only a war hero; us." he was also our hero." Michelle's husband, Chris, recollected how his wife's initial reaction to her If you'd like to set up a Tribute Fund in You can help people just like Ron by diagnosis wasn't to question how long someone's memory, please visit supporting our Urgent Appeal. You until she'd die, but how long she could www.sfh.org.uk/tribute-funds can find out more by visiting live. www.sfh.org.uk/nurse

10 | LIVING WITH DIGNITY | Summer 2020 www.sfh.org.uk THANK YOU Ron's story FEATURE | Countryside Properties A huge thank you Little Orange Quiz answers Answers for Round 1: General raises incredible funds Knowledge 1. Boris Johnson for local people 2. Choux Pastry 3. Hilary Mantel 4. Tea 5. Richard Starkey 6. Delta Ronald Wilson 7. Forint 8. Count Zeppelin (Ferdinand von Thank you so much for the kindness Zeppelin) and generosity each and every one of our supporters have shown over the Answers for Round 2: Film last few months during this difficult 1. Goodfellas time, whether it’s supporting us with 2. The Shawshank Redemption Countryside team a donation or offering a gift. We don’t 3. Clint Eastwood have room to mention everyone by 4. Silence of the Lambs name unfortunately, but here are just In 2019, employees at Countryside 5. Tim Allen a few of the kind gifts that have been 6. The Dude Properties' head office in Warley donated to the Hospice recently: voted to support a local good cause 7. Taron Egerton 8. The Social Network for their financial year, which runs up JB Sweet & Savoury, – to October. 50 curry dinners for staff Answers for Round 3: Sports Jan Smith, Volunteer – knitted nurse 1. England and Scotland Saint Francis Hospice came up trumps. bunnies – sold to raise funds Sixty braved the cold and wet for 2. 1986 Action Industrial Cleaning, Romford 3. White Mission Mud in March, and they've also - coronavirus testing kits raised money through quiz nights and 4. Three under par Judith & Keith Bates – PPE – scrubs raffles. Lockdown permitting, the team 5. 4 Lions Club of – PPE – 6. Australian plan to hold a golf day and visit our gloves and face masks as well as snacks Hospice to volunteer. 7. Ben Stokes and drinks for staff 8. Muhammed Ali and George Jim and Anne Bender, Patron's Circle Thank you to everyone at Countryside Foreman members – PPE - masks and scrubs Properties for raising an incredible Elaine Cheadle, Volunteer – PPE £10,308. Some of which was spent Answers to Round 4: Technology & Chigwell & Hainault Synagogue – Social Media on vital PPE to keep our staff, patients, delicious homemade cakes for staff and their loved ones safe through the 1. 140 Copsey’s, Romford – loan of storage pandemic. 2. PowerPoint space to store furniture 3. Fear of missing out Paragon, Dagenham – PPE – face 4. Cristiano Ronaldo The remainder will go where it's needed masks and 90 Easter eggs the most: helping local people living with 5. International Business Machines Loxford School of Science & life-limiting illnesses. 6. 40% (35-45%) Technology, – homemade visors 7. Sir Isaac Newton Dunelm Mill, Romford – 30 pump 8. Troll Iain McPherson, Chief Executive, bags hand made by staff explained why so many people decided Ardleigh Green Support Services, to vote for our Hospice: Answers to Round 5: History Hornchurch – PPE – gloves, 1. Lord Mountbatten oversleeves and hairnets Saint Francis Hospice has 2. The Great Fire of London Rotary Club of Brentwood and Rose 3. Vietnam War touched the lives of many Bolton – over £8,000 raised towards 4. Bosworth Field Countryside employees, their PPE through crowdfunding campaign 5. Bouvier friends, and families. This is Clarke's Carpets, Romford – donating 6. William The Conqueror a great opportunity for us to 1% of their profits up to December 7. Sherpa Tenzing support a very worthy charity and 2020 to be shared between the 8. Charlemagne to have some fun along the way. Hospice and First Step, Hornchurch Don’t forget to download your Contact Fundraising at [email protected] to next set of Little Orange Quiz discuss and find out ways to support local people. questions by visiting www.sfh.org.uk/shop/quiz | | www.sfh.org.uk Summer 2020 forLIVING just WITH£3 DIGNITY 11 FEATURE | IN MEMORY OF MIMI Urgent Appeal

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