NewsSummerSpring 20172018 PatientsAll change welcome for Midnight Hospice Walk improvements 2018 Florence Nightingale Hospice curtainsIn response, for around the FNHC each Events bed and team at decidedthe Charity has made a number of windowsthat the 2018 in our Midnight In-Patient Walk unit. should We havebe open alsoto everyone purchased over twelve the age new of 11.recliner chairs developments in the Hospice for patients in the Unit, to match the new The Charity also asked survey respondents which will improve the working curtains. if they would prefer to keep the distance environment for staff and create We’veoptions also the improvedsame, or changeour afternoon them totea a 5 a prettier and more homely offeringmile and by 10 introducing mile route. home-baked “54% of respondents cakes to give patients and their families a sweet treat atmosphere for patients. said they would prefer a choice of five miles withor ten their miles, cup and of tea so inwe the have afternoon. decided to trial Staff are now enjoying a new office space Mostthese excitingly,distances,” and says after Jo a Turner. long wait, thirteen and a refurbished meeting room which newThe Midnightover-bed WalkSmart will TVs take have place been on installed23 provideIn 2018 nicerFlorence spaces Nightingale for bereavement Hospice byJune, IAG starting Technology and finishing which will at offer Freeview listeningCharity’s sessions,(FNHC) main out-patient fundraising appointments, event, channelsCollege as for usual. patients to enjoy. andthe Midnightstaff and Walk,volunteer will bemeetings. a bit different. We have carried“We asked through the public the decorative whether they themes would “One thing that won’t be changing is the oflike the the refurbished event to be Dayopened Hospice up to intomen both as Midnight Walk “uniform”,” says Jo. “The roomswell as andwomen,” the Hospice explains ReceptionJo Turner, Head area ofwith flashing ears are spectacular, and the T-shirts matchingFundraising. wood-effect “80% of the flooring, respondents new saidfurniture, they in ‘Safety Pink’ help to keep Walkers visible curtainswould like and men blinds. to be allowed to take part.” as well as being traditional!” InWhile addition, the majority we have were re-decorated in favour of the men Family Find out more online at Sittingjoining Roomthe Walk, and some purchased fear that new it willfurniture change www.fnhospice.org.uk/midnightwalk thanksthe unique to a atmospheredonation of £2,600of the event. from The“It’s Co-op’snice to celebrate members. with girlfriends in a relaxed acar2go confirms Aatmosphere. further £862 I feelfrom that Hazells may changeBowls Club and has paidbecome for a more new competitive,”(FNHC pink!) reclinersaid one chair lady. to sponsorship allowHowever, patients many to comments spend quality also pointedtime with out their that used car dealership acar2go familiesmen wish in tothe support sitting theroom, Hospice watching as well. TV “Menand has confirmed that they will be the main overlookingalso lose loved the ones beautiful to cancer garden. or suffer from sponsor of Midnight Walk 2018! This Acancer very generousjust the same donation as ladies,” of £20,000 one lady wrote, support is crucial to the fundraising power fromwhile theanother Berkhamsted said, “Why and not, Boxmoorthe more the BT of the event. A huge thank you to Mark Benevolentmerrier, it’s raising Fund money has meant for a brilliantthat we cause. have Duncan at acar2go for supporting beenMales able look togood purchase in pink andthree flashing new sets lights.” of AfternoonMidnight tea Walk has been once upgraded! again!

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Colour Rush 2017 Much fun was had getting absolutely children with life-limiting illnesses. covered in colour at Colour Rush at “A massive thank you to everyone who took Green Park, Aston Clinton in aid of the part and raised money, to all our volunteers Florrie’s Children’s Team in October. who marshalled and threw paint, and to Over 600 people of all ages and levels the companies which supported the event: of fitness took on the 5k route and got Nuffield Health Aylesbury, Redrow Homes, showered with multi-coloured powder Premier Windows, Home Tiles, Mix96, Arla as they ran, jogged, toddled or walked Dairies, Visual Heights, Energy Generator through the five colour stations. Hire and Hirebase, and also to Your Café So far Colour Rushers have raised nearly in the Park, The Works and Cafe2U who £8,000 for the Florrie’s Team which provided refreshments,” said FNHC’s Head supports local families coping with of Fundraising, Jo Turner.

Get a flavour of the day’s fun on our Facebook page @florencenightingalehospice and scroll down to 8th October for photos, videos and posts. Look out for this year’s event and date!

2 3 Bursary Fund to honour the Hendersons You will know that the Charity and Hospice intended to fund specialist education that lost two dear friends in the last fifteen months. will ensure the development and future of Specialist Palliative Care in our community. Karen and Jim Henderson both gave outstanding service to the Hospice for over We intend to launch the initiative in April 25 years: Karen as Nurse and subsequently 2018 with details of how to apply for as Matron, and Jim as Treasurer, Trustee funding. Candidates will be asked to and Retail Director of the Charity. Through demonstrate how their additional education their commitment they supported many will benefit hospice services and allow them patients and families during the most difficult to share their learning with colleagues. of times, ensuring that they received the FNHC CEO Sue Jenkins said, “I believe best possible care. both Karen and Jim would be delighted that We have been asked by many of you the Charity has agreed to fund specialist how we will commemorate and celebrate education as they were both keen to mentor their achievements. After receiving several and encourage learning and development. It suggestions, the Board of Trustees and will also serve as a fitting tribute to both their Hospice Senior Staff have decided to amazing commitment and achievements.” remember and honour both Karen and Jim All are welcome to attend a coffee morning by setting up an education funding scheme. to celebrate the life of Karen Henderson The ‘Henderson Education Award’ will be a and taste some of her favourite bakes on bursary funded annually by the Charity and Saturday 21st April, 10am-12.30pm in the will be open to staff and volunteers in both Education Suite at FNHC Head Office at the Hospice and the Charity. The Award is Walton Lodge.

4 Our communications are in your hands

At Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity we In addition, FNHC is preparing for new data are incredibly proud of the care provided to protection rules which come into effect when local people across and the General Data Protection Regulation parts of Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire both (GDPR) becomes law in May. This affects in the Hospice and in the community. Our all organisations (including charities) across Charity is funding an increasing number of Europe, and aims to bring data protection the services offered to patients and to their into the digital age. families to keep up with demand for specialist FNHC promises to continue to keep secure care as the local population ages and grows. any information we hold about you and We want to share news about these services never to sell or swap your personal data with with you, to keep you posted about the third parties. If you would like to change the fundraising events and activities we arrange communications you receive from us please to make this care possible and also to tell you email [email protected] or call about how our wonderful volunteers help to on 01296 429 975. You can also write to provide care or raise essential funds. Jo Turner at FNHC, Unit 2, Walton Lodge, Walton Street, Aylesbury, HP21 7QY. We don’t, though, want to bother you with any communications you don’t want to receive and Alternatively you can request not to be we are committed to ensuring our fundraising is contacted by us (or any other charity) by legal, open, honest and respectful. contacting an independent organisation called the Fundraising Preference Service To that end, we are registered with the on 0300 3033 517 or https://public. Fundraising Regulator (the independent fundraisingpreference.org.uk regulator of charitable fundraising) and we pay its annual levy. We are also members of the If you want to read more about our Privacy Institute of Fundraising which promotes best Policy please look at: practice. www.fnhospice.org.uk/privacy-policy/

New website launched

Just before Christmas FNHC’s new website went live with a beautiful new design and updated functionality. You can now donate directly, sign up for events or request a Volunteering Pack, and easily find information about anything from Hospice services to Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity Shops. See more at www.fnhospice.org.uk

5 VOLUNTEERING

Young volunteers gain from time with the Charity

Do you fancy getting out in the fresh air at Hospice Charity can help you to achieve the weekend with your family and friends to these goals by giving you a volunteering have some fun, whilst making a difference opportunity in one of our Shops. in your community? If so, maybe you Or perhaps your employer offers you time off could spare a few hours to help us at our so that you can volunteer to support a local fundraising events, for example, Midnight charity either individually or as a team? Walk or Colour Rush. Are you or the teenagers in your life looking We can offer a wide range of opportunities for an opportunity to enhance customer and flexible hours, to help you fit volunteering service skills through volunteering, to around your work and school hours, so build confidence, enhance a job or UCAS that you can feel the rewards of making a application or to contribute towards a Duke difference alongside the normal routine of of Edinburgh Award? Florence Nightingale your daily life.

“I really felt that I was contributing towards a meaningful fund-raising event….. I learned more of the fundraising activities of– Robert the from charity.” McAfee 6 We need you! Volunteering Opportunities

Charity Shops - join one of our Shop teams, Furniture Showroom & Online Sales - particularly in Chinnor, Thame, Winslow and Chamberlain Road, Aylesbury – if you have . an interest in selling more unusual or larger donations then join our Showroom or Online Midnight Walk - do you enjoy partying Sales team. We can make great use of any through the night, or perhaps you are an early knowledge you have on collectibles, fashion riser? We are looking for volunteers to help us and photography. at this popular event: we need Marshals to keep the Walkers safe, people to serve bacon To find out more about volunteering, butties at breakfast and a small team to join please visit our website, email us in the early hours to help us to clear down [email protected] from the event. or call Tracey O’Hara on 01296 332600.

Paintbrushes ready!

Santander UK volunteers picked up paintbrushes again for the Charity – this time to paint the Furniture Showroom’s entrance display area so that we have an attractive space to display room sets, and to spruce up the front of the Haddenham Shop.

7 NHS rewards Hospice Volunteers with third place in Staff Awards an enormous contribution to the care of the Hospice’s patients and their families.” Six representatives of the Florence Nightingale Hospice Volunteers team attended the Awards Ceremony at The Gateway in November where they were awarded Third Place! The In-Patient Unit volunteers were also nominated separately by Hospice Staff Nurse Cat Jelly, as were the Hospice Gardeners, for their hard work in and dedication to the gardens at the Hospice. What makes the The team of Hospice-based volunteers latter nomination even more special is that (including everyone who volunteers in the they were nominated by two members of In-Patient Unit and Day Hospice, and the NHS staff who do not even work in the Gardeners, Complementary Therapists, Patient Drivers and Bereavement Listeners) Hospice. “I joined the Trust seven months were shortlisted for the Volunteer of the Year ago,” said one. “Every day I walk past the Award in the Buckinghamshire Healthcare Hospice to get to the office and as the NHS Trust Staff Awards. months go by I witness the changes that take place in the garden and flowerbeds....I can The Hospice volunteers were nominated for see the effort the volunteers put in to ensure the Award by Helen Pegrum, Consultant in the plants and flowers lift someone’s spirit up.” Palliative Medicine at Florence Nightingale Hospice. Helen said, “I am delighted that Both teams received Certificates of Merit for the dedication and compassion of the these nominations, as well as being included volunteers has been recognised, they make in the group who were awarded Third Place.

Volunteer Gardeners harvest top Aylesbury In Bloom Award Our Hospice Gardeners are award-winners again! This time they scooped the top prize for Communal Gardens in the Aylesbury In Bloom competition run by Aylesbury Town Council. This is fitting recognition for everyone who puts so much time and effort into making our Hospice garden a delightful oasis of natural beauty which is appreciated by judges, patients, families and staff alike.

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Aylesbury High Street update: worth the wait!

The Aylesbury High Street Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity Shop has a smart new look thanks to a revamp over the summer. Now the sophisticated, clean décor matches the high quality of the donated goods we sell in there. Do go and have a look and let us know what you think!

1010 RETAIL More than just a place to sell stuff

As well as generating retail income, FNHC Photos of the displays were posted on Shops have a vital role to play in maintaining Facebook for the public to decide a winner awareness of the Hospice in their and were viewed by an astonishing 10,806 communities, and in supporting the Charity’s people. Thanks to a lot of sharing and liking fundraising and volunteering. by Walton Court Shop fans, they came out The Shops created fabulously colourful as winners of the public vote. Well done to window displays to promote Colour Rush Shop Manager Dennise, volunteer Larry and encourage people to register before the Warr, and all the Walton Court team for ‘Early Bird’ deadline of 31st August. engaging with your community so brilliantly. And it really worked! In the week the Colour Rush Windows were in, over 40 people signed up. Walton Court’s winning Colour Rush window

1111 EVENTS

New venue success for A gift for wrapping Beer Festival Thanks to all our fantastic Christmas Gift- wrappers and the generosity of Aylesbury’s The 24th Aylesbury Beer Festival moved to Sir shoppers, the Gift-wrapping Stall in Friars Henry Floyd Grammar School for 2017 and it Square Shopping Centre raised over £3,100 seems the new location was a crowd-pleaser, for the Hospice. A huge thank you to all with numbers up by over 30% on last year. the fabulous volunteers who gave time and Not only that, the Festival attracted over 40 wrapping energy, including teams from sponsors of beer and cider barrels, meaning ACCO Brands Aylesbury, T-Systems, Lloyds Banking Group and Mix96 who took time there was a greater choice of flavours than away from the office (with the support of their ever before. Festival-goers responded employers) to make it such a great success. enthusiastically, buying a record-breaking 1,670 pints and raising £5,732 for the Charity. Music was provided all day on Saturday Festive fun runners and by bands organised by Larry Warr, such as Santa Dashers Reflexions, De Ja Vu and Ukolade, while Paul Biz entertained the children with a Dedicated Santas, including a group of Aylesbury United Ladies U13 girls and an Magic Show and the Towersey Morris Men inflatable Santa, turned up for an early start gave a wonderful display of traditional morris to run Aylesbury’s Santa Dash at the end of dancing. November. The event was kindly organised On the food front, there was a great choice by Rachael Hine of Dead Universe Comics of eleven different gourmet sausages from and the Aylesbury Santas have raised over local butchers during the day and a range £1,100 in sponsorship for the Hospice. of delicious stomach-lining hot meals on A week later just over 100 Santas gathered to Saturday evening provided by Alena Winter. run 3k around Thame in the Festive Fun Run For non-ale enthusiasts, there was local organised by the Thame Lions. They have so boutique gin brand Griffiths Brothers Gin as far raised nearly £700, with more to come. well as prosecco, wine and soft drinks on sale Both events had a lovely festive family at The Other Bar, provided by The Russell atmosphere and have become regular Arms and The Bell, . features of the Florence calendar.

12 EVENTS Wicked Stepmother visits Day Hospice The Christmas Draw took place in Day Hospice with help from the wonderful Su Pollard who played the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Aylesbury Waterside Theatre. She had time for a chat with patients, volunteers and Florrie Bear too! The Christmas Draw raised £2,567 for the Hospice.

Flower Arranging with Neil Gurney Neil Gurney and Annette Botting put on a fabulous evening of Flower Arranging at the Aylesbury Waterside Theatre which raised £383 for the Hospice. Thank you to everyone in the audience for coming along, and buying raffle tickets to win the beautiful flower arrangements which Neil had put together in the show. Dorothy Wright will be wielding the secateurs for Florence in the autumn but in a different venue so look out for details on Facebook in the Summer Newsletter and fnhospice.org.uk

Browns Solicitors triumph again at Bake Off

2017’s Aylesbury Bake Off hosted by Cauldron cake was Williams Properties. Browns Solicitors at the Aylesbury Thank you also to Kidd Rapinet LLP, Waterside Theatre had more entrants and Horwood & James LLP, Parrott & Coales raised more money than ever before, a LLP, Brown and Merry Aylesbury, Hartwells, cracking £341.62. For the second year George David Estate Agents, Michael Antony running the winner of the Judges’ Vote was Estate Agents for their fantastic cakes, and to Browns Solicitors with an entry from Jenny the Theatre for the use of the foyer. Clements which got a perfect score of 15. Williams Properties, as the winners of the The winner of the Public Vote for their Public Vote, will host the event next year. amazing Halloween-themed Witch’s

13 COMMUNITY FUNDRAISING A big thank you to… The Haddenham Community Support Group

who organised a Fashion Show and Afternoon Tea at Bradmoor Farm in Haddenham and raised £1,261 for the Hospice. Fashion was supplied by Baban Boutique in Thame.

Fineglaze The Association for for laying on some Halloween fun for Petroleum and Explosives Trick or Treaters and raising £80. They baked cakes, had a Raffle, and Administration provided a photo booth so that anyone Each year their main event, APEA Live, could arrive all dressed up and get a features a charitable beneficiary and in special Halloween photo. Not only that, 2017 Event Manager Beki Tompkins put the company donated £5 for every order forward Florence Nightingale Hospice over £1,000 in 2017 which raised £300. Charity as she had had personal dealings with the Hospice and felt that the Charity deserved further exposure. As a result, Diana Parker FNHC attended the exhibition and gave a presentation about the work of the for holding a Coffee Morning Hospice and Charity at the Awards Dinner and selling Christmas cards in the evening. The delegates generously which raised £470. donated an incredible £4,336 to the Charity at the dinner in the evening.

14 Alders Farm Fishery and the staff, suppliers and customers and everyone who contributed to the Alders Farm Fishery Christmas Raffle 2017. Alders Farm Fishery owners Mary, Sophie and Charlotte presented Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity with a cheque for a staggering £2,611 which was raised through the sale of raffle tickets. Thank you so much to Trevor Price for organising the raffle and getting so many great prizes.

The Churchill Arms in for raising £261 with their Halloween raffle in aid of FNHC.

The Akeman Pub in Kingswood Walkers and their staff and customers who are a local walking group in Stewkley who for raising a sparkling regularly do charity walks and raised £250 £387.70 from their fireworks for the Hospice in September. The walk was evening on 2 November in organised by Stewkley Walkers member and aid of the Charity. long-time Hospice supporter, Carole Nash.

15 COMMUNITY FUNDRAISING A big thank you to…

The Roberts family

and the village of Dinton for raising £880 through the 10th annual Memorial Cricket Match in memory of Lee Roberts. The event has raised around £9,000 for the Hospice over the ten years.

Mix96 and particularly Nia Visser, for organising the Mix96 Toy Appeal, and a huge thank you to everyone who donated gifts to the Appeal for our Florrie’s Children’s Team Lead Nurse Angie to collect and take to families cared for by the Team.

Philip Benton Photography and Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce Aylesbury United Ladies & Girls FC U13 Girls Team for raising £100 for the Hospice at their Made in Bucks networking event. Philip for donating an Women’s football took professional headshots of attendees in shirt signed by all the England squad return for donations to Florence Nightingale which will be auctioned on the FNHC Hospice. eBay Shop in 2018.

16 ACCO Brands Aylesbury

Day Hospice’s Art Therapist Karen Ellis was delighted to be presented with boxes of high quality art materials by ACCO Brands’ Jason Savage and Andrea Murphy. The generous and thoughtful gift included watercolour and acrylic paints, drawing and painting pads, fine coloured pencils and adult colouring books - all of which will be used by Day Hospice patients over the coming year. We look Primary Schools forward to seeing what they produce! including Whitchurch County Combined, We have been so blessed to be ACCO Aston Clinton, Junior School, Brands Aylesbury’s Charity of the Year in Bearbrook Combined, St Joseph’s Catholic 2017. In a triumphant finale, they raised Infant School, The John Hampden School £651 in the Christmas Bake Off and Raffle , Ashmead Combined, St in aid of Florence Nightingale Hospice Mary’s CE Combined, Wendover Junior Charity...the energy and creativity of School, Broughton Infant and Junior their Charitable Giving Board has been Schools and School who incredible, and the generosity of staff and sold Christmas toys worth £2,590 in our the company has been awe-inspiring. Schools Christmas Appeal.

Even better news came to us before Christmas – they have decided to retain FNHC as their Charity of the Year in 2018!

Bron Hughes who collected a huge number of bottles to supply the drinks trolley at the Day Hospice, with the help of WI and community and Cedars Upper School. Bron has connections with the Hospice through friends who have received care.

17 COMMUNITY FUNDRAISING A big thank you to…

Aylesbury Waterside Theatre

and its panto-goers for raising a huge £3,743 through collections at its Christmas Pantomime performances of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Nightingale Country Crafts

knitters and sewers for making £693 in 2017 through the sale of their handmade products at local events including Fête, Aston Clinton Village Market, Haddenham Fête, Fête, Craft Fair and Chinnor Victorian Fayre.

William Powell Ltd. PE Mead & Sons for raising £400 through the sale of for collecting £132 in donations for the Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity Christmas Cards alongside its country Hospice at their Christmas Evening event pursuits equipment and clothing. in November.

18 2nd Halton Brownies Quizmaster Andy Cowie who packed bags for customers at the Tesco and the participants in the 30th Music Tring Road store in Hospice Care Week. They Quiz at Hawkslade Community Centre. were extremely excited to be helping out and The Quiz raised an amazing £752, and proved a hit with staff and customers alike. congratulations to the Florence and the Thanks to the generosity of Tesco’s customers, Machine Team who were once again the the Brownies raised £247.16 and earned their winners. Fundraising Badge as a result of their efforts. Frame-Express Rumsey’s Chocolaterie for framing the new pictures to decorate the In-Patient Unit at the Hospice at a in Wendover for donating raffle prizes 50% discount worth £188, and to Marian throughout the year, and to Rumsey’s in Sutherby and Emily Sutherby for sourcing Thame for offering a 50% discount on drinks and organising them. to Thame Festive Fun Runners in December.

Big Band Swing led by Lee and the Haddenham Masonic Lodge for raising £300 at the Big Band Swing Concert in Haddenham.

Customers of Tesco Tring Road who donated Christmas gifts for the children and families cared for by the Florrie’s Children’s A group of Year 6 pupils Team. Thank you to Tesco’s Community Co-ordinator Fatima King for organising the from Wendover CE Junior School who collection on our behalf - and thank you for all raised £77 selling slime to fellow pupils you have done for the Hospice this year. after school!

19 YOUR STORY Hospice volunteer celebrates 80th with skydive for Florence Proving that the sky really is the limit for anyone, Wing resident Lucy Lester jumped from a plane high above the Namibian desert the day before her 80th birthday in December.

“It’s something I’ve always wanted to do I knew where I was we were down and and if I don’t do it now I might never do it,” everybody was cheering. Which made me Lucy said before she went. “I’m doing a feel quite good. And I was fine. The landing tandem skydive which means I’m strapped is very simple because your Tandem Master to a young man and jumping out of a plane takes the impact. Yes, it was an amazing which will be at about ten thousand feet in experience.” the desert in Namibia which is where we lived for thirty years.” The day after her adrenalin-filled feat on 28th December, Lucy celebrated her 80th As well as being a personal challenge, birthday at a party with all her family around Lucy used the occasion to raise money her, as she has two married children and for Florence Nightingale Hospice, a cause four grandchildren still living in Namibia. close to her heart. “I used to be a volunteer at Florence Nightingale Hospice and I did She has now raised over £2,600 including four Midnight Walks, which I’m not able Gift Aid in sponsorship and she has been to do now, but I am able to do a tandem surprised and delighted by people’s skydive! So all the funds raised will go to generosity. “I think quite honestly so many the Hospice,” she explains. people in this area know all about the Speaking to Mix96 radio after her return to Hospice, have either visited or been there England, Lucy said, “The freefall was not themselves. It’s an amazing place and the best moment but once the parachute several people have said to me they like to came up with a big jolt it was incredible. give locally so they know where the money Very, very peaceful. Wonderful. And before is going,” she said.

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Give It Up For Florrie

Have you got a habit you’d like to break but you need some motivation? We launched our Give It Up For Florrie challenge in February, Steve Turner and it’s already making a difference. It can be as simple as giving up a bad habit like of ACCO Brands Aylesbury who completed biting your fingernails or eating chocolate, the Chester Marathon in 4 hrs, 56 mins or cycling instead of driving: something that and raised £500. “At times I really didn’t improves your health and well-being but takes want to be out there running but that is the some effort on your part. Do it for Lent (14th commitment – and it is really amazing what February to 29th March) or for a month any you can achieve when you stick with it,” Steve time. Save the money you would spend on says. “Back in 2011 I ran the Wycombe half your indulgence and donate it to the Hospice, marathon in memory of my Dad – and that or get people to sponsor you for every day you stick to it. Break a habit that’s bad for was far enough. I think if someone would you, and do some good for the community. have said back then that in six years’ time I’ll We would love to hear your stories and what run a marathon I just wouldn’t have believed you chose to give up. it. I was very honoured to run this for FNHC.” Steve’s company ACCO Brands sponsored Get in touch with [email protected] him £500 to complete the challenge. and share your challenge with the FNHC family.

22 David Booker Admiration and thanks to… took part in a 5 mile walk around the Chequers estate and raised £177. David, who is 81 years old, said, “I decided to walk for Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity in memory of family members I have lost over the years, this includes three members of my family that passed away at the Hospice…I have nothing but admiration for the staff who work there and I wanted to do something to help the cause.“

Paul Honeyman and Jo Perry

who have decided to run the London Marathon in aid of Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity. “I have been fortunate enough to secure a place in the 2018 London Marathon and have chosen to run for The Florence Nightingale Hospice who looked after my Uncle Dermot O’Mahony Naomi Hughes in 2011, when he passed away aged just 44,” says Paul. “In my family’s darkest hours who did a Skydive in September and the Hospice provided kind and thoughtful raised £595. Naomi is a Volunteer Driver care to a wonderful man. The Hospice also for Day Hospice patients and has a looked after Kim Wright who was Dermot’s personal connection to the Hospice sister in law.” as well. “[The Hospice] cared for my grandma, Audrey, in her last few weeks and my family Hannah Howard and and I are incredibly grateful for everything they did,” says Jo. the Aylesbury Army As FNHC was not allowed to apply for who completed their Three Peaks a Charity place this year, it is very much Challenge in September, a year after their appreciated that Paul and Jo have chosen first try when bad weather prevented them to support the Hospice through this event, climbing Ben Nevis. They raised a total and we wish them both the best of luck with of £1,361.50. Well done to everybody for training and on Marathon Day. persevering!

23 DIARY DATES

FEBRUARY

Friday 23rd February, 7pm-9.30pm Put a spring in your step with mini treatments and a Pamper Evening drop of fizz. Tickets £5 to include a glass of fizz. See Walton Lodge, Walton St, HP21 7TA www.fnhospice.org.uk for details

MARCH

Saturday 24th March, 7.30pm for 8pm Enjoy a Gallic supper alongside an evening of Murder Mystery French Style! mystery and suspense. Tickets £15. See Haddenham Youth Centre www.fnhospice.org.uk for details. Saturday 31st March, from 9am Our annual chocolate celebration. Join us and win Easter Egg Tombola your Easter Eggs this year. All eggs are donated by Friars Square, Aylesbury local companies and individuals.

APRIL

Saturday 21st April, 10am-12.30pm A coffee morning to celebrate the life of former Coffee for Karen Hospice Matron Karen Henderson and taste some Walton Lodge, Walton St, HP21 7TA of her favourite bakes. All welcome.

Sunday 22nd April Please call Teresa on 01296 429 975 for more Skydive for FNHC - Hinton Airfield, Brackley information.

MAY

Tuesday 1st May, 12.30pm The Day Hospice will launch FNHC’s summer Strawberry Squeeze Launch at the Hospice fundraising campaign: Strawberry Squeeze. All Florence Nightingale Hospice welcome to attend. Join the FNHC team – we have ONE FULL Bank Holiday Monday – 7th May Marathon and ONE HALF Marathon place. Please Milton Keynes Marathon call Teresa on 01296 429975 to apply. Saturday 12th May, 3pm Afternoon Bingo with a Strawberry Cream Tea. Bingo Afternoon – Strawberry themed! Tickets £10 including Cream Tea. Advance booking FNHC, Walton Lodge, Walton St, HP21 7TA essential on 01296 429975.

16th – 20th May The charity bike ride challenge of a lifetime. Please Cycle London to Paris for FNHC call Teresa on 01296 429975.

Sunday 27th May Come and visit us in our bright pink gazebo from Wendover Celebrates 2018 - Wendover 12 noon.

Market Stall Dates: Wednesday 28th February, Wednesday 28th Market Square, Aylesbury 9am-4pm March, Wednesday 25th April.

For more info on all our events, visit www.fnhospice.org.uk or Facebook @florencenightingalehospice