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Newsround 2019 January January Inside this issue: Join our new Challenge30 Graham Hunt: Hospice Hero Hospice launches wing-walk westonhospicecare.org.uk | Jackson-Barstow House 28 Thornbury Road | Uphill | BS23 4YQ Life at Weston Hospicecare | A message from CEO Paul Winspear One could be forgiven for feeling No-one epitomises that better than gloomy sometimes at today’s world Graham, already a long-term supporter news, it seems as if we’re being and who this year embarks on a full battered from all sides, and we still year of challenges to raise funds on have this ongoing Brexit uncertainty. our behalf. He has already completed However, day-to-day life goes on, his January challenge of swimming 30 people continue to care for each other, laps (60 lengths) every day for 30 days and for Weston Hospicecare this is a – read on for more details! Thank you, very special year as we mark our 30th Graham you’re a real star. anniversary with a series of special Best wishes to you all, and please events and activities through the year. join our special events during 2019. Community engagement will be the hallmark of our 30th year as we say a huge thank you to local people who support us and as we look to strengthen those bonds even further. Speaking of supporters, one of the pleasures of our mission is meeting Paul special people who go above and beyond the call of duty to help us and raise funds for the hospice. Keep in touch Jackson-Barstow House | 'Weston Hospicecare News' 28 Thornbury Road | Uphill | @WHCHospice Weston-super-Mare | BS23 4YQ Tel. 01934 423900 Westonhospicecare.org.uk We welcome all feedback and suggestions to help us with future editions of Newsround | Email [email protected] page 2 | westonhospicecare.org.uk Marking 30 years of care with a year of celebration and thanksgiving Weston Hospicecare will celebrate an Chief executive Paul Winspear said: important milestone in 2019 – 30 years “Everything we do at Weston of providing expert care to people in Hospicecare is centred on our patients Weston-super-Mare and surrounding and their loved ones - how best can we areas. care for them now and in the future? Three decades after the charity was "Yes, there may be more celebration formed by a group of passionate than usual, different events and volunteers at Christ Church in activities, but ultimately it all comes Montpellier, the organisation will down to widening our support base and commemorate the achievement with a improving our income, so we can year of special activities. continue caring for the next 30 years. That includes the launch of new “We’d love to see all our staff, events and challenges, a one-off volunteers and supporters getting thanksgiving service back where it all involved and hope there will be began at Christ Church, and a fun-filled something to interest everyone among birthday party in October. what’s being planned.” All of these events will be inspired by the hospice's joint aims of celebration, community engagement and fundraising, which will all underpin the different activities being planned throughout the celebratory year. westonhospicecare.org.uk | page 3 30 challenges in a year? No problem for hospice hero Graham! Graham's incredible list of challenges: January – Swimming 30 laps each day for 30 days February – Walkathon, walking for 30 hours continuously March – Rowing 30km every day, for 30 days April – Sit in a bathtub of baked beans for 30 hours May – Cycling from London to Paris in 24 hours June – Mendip Challenge, running 30 miles July – Cycling 30 miles every day, for 30 days Running 30 marathons in 30 days or August – Auction/raffle plus a full body spending 30 hours sitting in a bath of wax baked beans may not be for everyone - September – 30-hour five-a-side but they are just two of the challenges football marathon one Weston man has set himself in an October – Climb Mount Kilimanjaro incredible year of fundraising for November – TBC Weston Hospicecare. December – 30 marathons in 30 days Graham Hunt has set himself an Graham said: “It was mentioned to me astonishing 12-month challenge the hospice would be marking its 30th agenda to help celebrate the charity's anniversary this year and something 30th anniversary year which also just clicked about the whole year and includes climbing Mount Kilimanjaro wanting to take on a challenge every and cycling from London to Paris. month.” Builder Graham, aged 47, has been You can support Graham by visiting raising money for the charity for a www.justgiving.com/fundraising/graha number of years after his wife Victoria m-hunt-6610 and leaving a donation. was cared for by the hospice before Graham is inviting people to join him she died. He took part in the London for individual legs of his fundraising, Marathon for the hospice in 2018, but while people can set challenges of their is now set to take on his biggest own through the hospice's Challenge30 challenge yet. initiative running throughout 2019. page 4 | westonhospicecare.org.uk Challenge30 - find out how to join our innovative new fundraiser Could you run 30 miles - either all at That could include doing something for once, or a mile a day for 30 days? Or 30 days, 30 hours, 30 miles, donating sacrifice your favourite treats - wine, 30 unwanted items, or doing 30 good perhaps, or chocolate - for 30 days? Or deeds for others. maybe you’d consider doing 30 good Hospice challenge manager Simon deeds or devoting 30 hours of your Angear said: “The great thing about this time as a volunteer? idea is that people can choose their own These are just some of the ways in way to be a part of it. Our ideas are only which people can support a creative the start - we hope people will be new challenge to help celebrate inspired to create their own fundraisers.” Weston Hospicecare’s 30th The hospice has partnered with a new anniversary in 2019. online giving platform - As part of a packed calendar of home.givepenny.com - for Challenge30. celebrations, the hospice is laying GivePenny is different to traditional down a new challenge for supporters, platforms in that people can upload all themed around the number 30 in information from their phones - using recognition of its milestone year. compatible apps like Strava, Runkeeper Challenge30 invites people to test or Fitbit data - to track their progress. themselves in feats of speed or Log on to westonhospicecare.org.uk/ endurance, either individually or challenge30/ to find out more and get in teams, to take on a challenge. involved. westonhospicecare.org.uk | page 5 Get set for our exhilarating new overseas challenge event... 7th-12th November The adventure of a lifetime awaits for “The days will be hot and the trekking Weston Hospicecare supporters in will be tough, but we will help all team 2019, with the charity organising its members conquer this mammoth task.” first ever overseas fundraising The trip includes four days of hiking – challenge – in the Sahara Desert. with a day of travelling to and from the The hospice is organising a host of UK at each end too – and a celebratory new events and challenges to mark its Moroccan dinner at the end of the trek. 30th anniversary year, including this There are two ways to fund the trip. six-day trip to a stunning section of the The first is to pay a £175 registration famous desert in Morocco. fee and commit to raising a minimum That challenge is ideal for anyone £1,800 in sponsorship, which covers who marked the turn of the year with a the costs and contributes to the resolution to support a charity, see the hospice. Or you can pay the world, or to tick something incredible registration fee and self-fund the trip for off their bucket list – as this fits the bill £900, in which case there is no for all three. minimum sponsorship, though The challenge will run from 7-12 supporters are encouraged to raise as November, and will see participants led much as they can. by Berber guides and hiking as a team. To learn more about the challenge, A trek spokesman said: “Join us as we visit westonhospicecare.org.uk/treks- experience one of the most and-walks or contact Simon Angear on breath-taking and largest deserts in the 01934 423947 or by emailing simon. world – The Sahara. [email protected] page 6 | westonhospicecare.org.uk Let the sun shine! Solar panels installed at Weston Hospicecare Weston Hospicecare heralded the CEO Paul Winspear said of the arrival of eco-friendly energy production project: “We at Weston Hospicecare at Jackson-Barstow House in Uphill, are all absolutely delighted with the with the installation of 103 solar panels new solar panels. on the roof of the main building. "They will make a significant Solar Kinetics of Herefordshire difference to the cost of electricity for finished the fitting of the panels on a the hospice and help advance our eco- sunny 13 January, with energy friendly operations. production beginning from that very "Installation was achieved on moment. schedule and to budget by Solar The solar panels will help combat Kinetics, who did a fabulous job.” rising energy costs and to reduce the hospice’s carbon footprint by aligning towards more ecologically friendly practices, helping to improve environmental sustainability both locally and globally. The panels will also improve financial sustainability via additional savings, as all excess energy produced is sold back to the National Grid.