News from your local Hospice charity

Spring/Summer 2018

Looking to New Day Get involved the future... Therapy services this summer! Our 3 year Strategy Read about the re-launch Calendar of events on page 3 on pages 6 & 7 on page 10 stclarehospice.org.uk Registered Charity No. 1063631 In this issue... Welcome to the Spring/Summer

Welcome edition of Hospice News 2 Welcome from Sarah Spring is just around the corner as I write, and St Clare Hospice is welcoming new growth too 2 Sign up for Gift Aid through renewed and refreshed plans. 3 Our three year Strategy It is through listening to our many supporters, and those in our local communities, that we have been able to develop a new strategy for the future of Our Care St Clare, planning how we can meet the needs of our communities and deliver the care that local 4 Hospice at Home: Val’s story people want and deserve, in the years to come. I am 4 Dying Matters Week delighted to be able to share with you our Strategy 5 Name our Children’s service for the next 3 years and beyond, and to ask you to join me on this exciting path over the coming years. 5 Family Therapist, a day in the life... The plans are very simple – we will reach significantly more people than we already do, to ensure that every adult in West Essex receives good end of life care and support, Big News whether they are at home, in hospital, in a care home or in the Hospice. We will continue to provide all our existing services, ensuring they are of the highest 6 New Day Therapy services launch quality and standard, but we will look to extend our reach by strengthening our 6 Café Clare community-based services. We want to enable local communities to become more 6 Physiotherapy Group resilient and to support one another. We plan to do this by developing volunteer-led projects in the community based on what local people tell us they need. 7 The power of creativity 7 Jennifer’s story We know that the NHS and other health services are under severe pressure. We want to help reduce unnecessary hospital admissions for those who would prefer to be cared for and die at home. We also want to share the principles of our style of care with other health and social care workers so that they are more confident to support people’s Volunteers wishes as they come to the end of their lives. 8 Compassionate Neighbours But we cannot do this alone. We need to work more closely with our communities, 8 Love Volunteering health care providers, voluntary sector organisations, faith groups and businesses – and I hope as a supporter of St Clare you will feel able to join us. Whether you can continue to support us financially, or as a volunteer, or by helping to spread the word about our care, you will be part of making a difference. Thank you. Shop I’d love to hear your thoughts about our care, our services and how you’d like to 9 Vintage & Retro Collection get involved with helping us reach the needs of more people. You can email me at 9 Donate your vinyl [email protected] 9 Our Epping shop

Fundraise Sarah Thompson Chief Executive 10 Open Gardens returns 10 Wills Month Have you signed up for Gift Aid? 10 What’s on this summer Gift Aid is one of the simplest and most effective ways of giving to charity, and 11 Winter Walkies is a barking success can make your donation to St Clare go even further. Gift Aid allows us to reclaim 11 Go Bright! the basic rate tax you pay as a UK taxpayer. It means that for every £1 you 11 Tick ‘Yes’ for your local hospice donate, we can claim an extra 25p of tax, at no extra cost to you. Did you know we can even reclaim tax on the sale of your donated goods in our shops? Meaning an average bag of donated goods worth £20 to the Thanks to you Hospice, can become £25 if Gift Aided. All that is required from you is a one-off declaration, which you can give by 12 St Clare: Did you know? simply completing the Gift Aid section 12 Play our Lottery and be of the form on page 12. a winner! For more information on Gift Aid, contact the St Clare Fundraising Team by emailing [email protected] or by calling 01279 773750. £20 £25 2 Welcome Our three year Strategy Why a new Strategy? Because we know… from 2018 onwards 2,900 people die in West Essex each year. St Clare cared for over St Clare is determined to be there for everyone 1,800 patients and family members facing death, dying and loss in our communities. last year, but we need to reach Your help, generosity and support will enable us many more. to make this vision a reality. Research shows that 75% of these deaths are predictable. We want to plan to be there for all those who need us.

OUR VISION: Sources: Office for National Statistics We believe that every adult with a life-limiting condition in our local communities should have access to palliative care services wherever and whenever they need them so that they can make the most of every moment, no matter how long they have left to live. OUR MISSION: We aim to provide both specialist clinical services and volunteer-led social support that meet the complex medical and social needs of local people around the issues of death, dying and loss. Strategic Aim 1 OUR VALUES: We will reach significantly We are an organisation rooted in the more people who are facing values of compassion, integrity, death, dying and loss in our local communities. excellence and team working. We will do this by developing joined-up care, taking our services to our patients when they can’t get to us, and maintaining our reputation for clinical excellence.

Strategic Aim 2 We will support our communities to become more resilient, to support each other and to remain independent Strategic Aim 3 for as long as possible. We will seek We will do this by extending partnerships with other our support to hard to reach groups, organisations to deliver and developing volunteer-led projects that better care for our patients. offer support and reduce loneliness. We will do this by influencing palliative care across the health and social care sector, and raising our profile amongst GPs and other referrers.

Join us on the journey. We invite you to read our full 2018 Strategy Strategic Aim 4 on our website at: We will grow as a strong, sustainable and stclarehospice.org.uk/ effective organisation. We will do this by us/our-reports developing a confident and well-equipped workforce and strengthening our fundraising and retail teams to increase our income.

3 Our Care Mike and Val “I don’t know what I would have done without Hospice at Home” Tracy Cunningham – Community Services Manager Val’s husband Mike was diagnosed with an untreatable brain tumour whilst on holiday in Spain in May 2016. Your support meant that St Clare was able to be with them through their whole journey. Val shares how the Hospice at Home team enabled Mike to spend precious time in their own home and gave them invaluable support as a family.

“Mike was an HGV driver and he had the Hospice at Home team. We had a I couldn’t even leave Mike to go and retired just 3 days before we went to our fantastic night sitter called Paul who built have a shower. But with Paul there, I got house in Spain. We were three weeks up such a great rapport with Mike.” into a good routine. Not only was Paul in to our holiday when Mike collapsed. so helpful and great with Mike, but it “At first Mike was really against having We took him to the medical centre and meant that I could look after myself personal care. He was a very private they diagnosed him within 2 hours.” properly as well.” man and didn’t want people helping him “It was just such a shock when they said with things like washing. But Mike and “Things would have been so different he had a brain tumour. Mike had shown Paul really hit it off. Paul was so great with for us without St Clare. They were just no symptoms at all. The doctors gave him. If Mike woke up in the middle of the so good at being there in the Mike four months to live. That was when night, Paul would get up and make him a background, like a safety net my daughter called St Clare Hospice cup of tea, and they would stay up and if I ever needed them. and the community palliative care team chat together.” I only had to pick began to help us.” up the phone and “Also, having Hospice at Home was Call our someone would be “As Mike’s illness progressed we needed a huge help for me too. I don’t know there for us.” Hospice at more support from St Clare. At the end what I would have done without them. of 2016 we started to receive help from Before Hospice at Home helped us, Val Home team on 01279 773716 Why ‘Dying Matters’ Dying Matters is an annual awareness week that aims to bring death and dying to the forefront of conversations across the nation. Having those conversations is not easy, but death is something that will happen to all of us, and speaking about it can help our loved ones to feel understood and cared for.

“Talking about what will happen at the conversations and plans are so important is about planning for life, and end of our lives can help us to be better in making it that bit easier for our families.” supporting yourself and your prepared for our final journey,” says loved ones,” Joanna concludes. “So, how do we bring up the subject of Joanna Petts, our Patient and Family death and dying, then?” Joanna asks. Support Manager. “Making a Will, “Listening well and approaching discussing what kind of care we would conversations sensitively is always a good like at the end of our life, or planning our place to start. At St Clare, we encourage funeral arrangements can be a huge conversation – but at a time when that 14th–20th May relief for ourselves and our families.” person feels ready to talk.” Dying Matters “Often, having those meaningful Explaining why simply talking can make Awareness conversations about death and dying with such a difference, Joanna adds, “It makes a loved one can help us to feel heard, Week it all a lot easier and acceptable for cared-for, connected and emotionally people – especially for children, safe,” Joanna adds. “We all want to be and the next generation, and so on. understood and accepted.” Eventually, I hope that death will “However, beginning and engaging in these not be perceived as a scary thing conversations is not always easy! Many at the end of our lives, but that it people do not take action to think or talk will be accepted as an inevitable about why dying matters because they think part of life that can be approached it does not apply to them,” Joanna explains. as peacefully and as positively as possible.” “The truth is that death is something that happens to all of us, and it is a natural part “Talking about death and dying does of the cycle of life. For most of us, we don’t not bring death closer. Taking part know when we will die, so having these in Dying Matters Awareness Week Joanna Petts, Patient and Family Support Manager 4 Our Care

What’s in a name? We need your ideas In June 2017, thanks to a major grant from BBC Children in Need, we launched our Children, Young People and Family Bereavement Service. It is with your continued support that we are able to develop this vital service for children and young people who are facing the death of a loved one at St Clare. Our new family workshops That’s why we would love to At St Clare, we understand the importance of to share favourite memories of their loved offer you the opportunity to give facing difficult journeys together. New for 2018 ones who have been cared for by St Clare. our service a name of its own! we have launched a series of family workshops Our next course of workshops will begin in We are looking for a short, as part of our Children, Young People and July and will focus on creating a special art catchy project name that piece in memory of a loved one. Bringing Family Bereavement Service. encapsulates the whole service together creative materials that represent that and the support we offer to These new workshops aim to be positive and person, families will have the opportunity to bereaved children, young uplifting, offering a space for bereaved families recollect favourite memories in a safe and people, families and schools. to participate in meaningful activities together. supported environment. They encourage children, young people and Send your suggestions in by If you’ve had a loved one cared for by St Clare adults to support each other in sharing their 30th June to communications@ in the past 3 years and would like to attend a emotions and coming to terms with loss. stclarehospice.org.uk – we can’t creative family workshop, please get in touch wait for your ideas! Our first course of workshops was called with the Patient and Family Support team on ‘Sharing Stories’ where families were invited 01279 773723.

Family Therapist, a day in the life… Catherine is our very first Children, Young People and Family Therapist at St Clare. Through integrative arts therapy, she supports bereaved children and young people to access, explore and express their emotions. Here, Catherine describes a typical day at St Clare…

10am – I arrive at the Hospice and catch up with 2.45pm – I meet with a my colleagues to see if there are children and patient to talk about her young people who might benefit from my support. grandson, who is 9 years old. I explain to her about the support that I 10.30am – I meet a mother at the Hospice, whose can offer as part of the children’s service, husband is receiving end of life care from our and we agree that a group therapy session might benefit him. Hospice at Home team. We talk about their daughter, who is aged 5, and her concerns about how her 3pm – I visit another primary school to host a training daughter is coping with the news that her dad will not session, teaching staff about bereavement. I work with staff be getting better. We decide to set a time and date for on how to support students who have lost loved ones, and her daughter to come and visit me to start counselling their peers, as well as how to manage their own emotions. that will help her throughout her family’s journey. 5.30pm – I return to St Clare to visit a man whose wife is 11.30am – I spend the rest of the morning staying with us. They have three children aged 5, 7 and 11, arranging appointments, preparing for sessions and and he’s not sure how to tell them that their mum will die soon. making phone calls to parents and schools. I offer advice on how to have those difficult conversations, supporting him to speak to his children and help prepare 1pm – I arrive at a primary school to visit a girl, them for the changes ahead. aged 6, whose mum has died. I set up a therapy room at school, and we begin a 50 minute session 6.15pm – My last appointment of the day is with a 17 year together. Our sessions provide a safe space for her old young person whose 23 year old sister is dying. I support to explore her emotions using creative materials like him to explore his emotions through music and literature, paints, clay, and puppets. using song lyrics and poetry to begin to express how he feels.

stclarehospice.org.uk 5 Big News New Day Therapy services launch We often hear people say that they thought hospice care was ‘just for the last few days or weeks of someone’s life’ but our Day Therapy team supports people from the moment they are diagnosed as having a life-limiting condition. Our team of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses and complementary therapists supports people to live with their condition, remain independent, and continue to fulfil their goals and dreams in life. In January 2018 we were delighted to launch a series of new groups in response to what our patients want and need. This includes a number of new drop-in groups, so that patients can access our help as and when they need it. Physiotherapy Group If you think that Our brand-new weekly drop-in exercise group is led by a you, or a loved one, qualified physiotherapist and allows patients to take part in a could benefit from tailored exercise programme that is adapted to their needs. our Day Therapy services, contact St Clare Physiotherapist, Vanessa Corrigan, who runs the the team on group said, “Exercise is so important for our patients and is a 01279 773768 vital part of managing many life-limiting conditions. Keeping active helps people to remain independent, so that they can still have the confidence and physical ability to continue to Café Clare collect their grandkids from school, pop out to do some Café Clare is a brand-new group that shopping, or simply to keep offers patients the chance to join us for moving around their own house. coffee and cake, and to meet others It can be hard to motivate socially, in a relaxed and friendly yourself to do your environment. Open to all our patients, exercises at home on this weekly drop-in group takes place your own, so having every Friday morning from 10am to a weekly class to 12pm in the dining room. come to can be a Our Day Therapy manager, Emily great help.” Stowe, said: “A service like this might not be what people expect when they think of a hospice, but it is groups like “Exercise is so Café Clare that really embody hospice important for our care. It is about life and living, and patients and is a vital bringing normality, togetherness and part of managing joy to people facing one of life’s most many life-limiting difficult journeys.” conditions.” Vanessa

Thank you Stortford Tiling & Marble held All the companies who bought Oakmont Construction sponsored our their 4th Golf Day – £7,500 our Christmas e-cards – £1,853 Memory Tree for the 2nd year – £4,000 HSBC’s Corporate LPL Construction helped us to Staff at Arrow Weston Homes Raff’s Pedalers from Banking Origination generate income through our fundraised – held their 23rd Golf HTS Group – £5,104 team fundraised – £5,911 Go-Karting event – £8,000 £338.76 Day – £110,000 6 Big News 77

Our 11 Royal parks Runners: parks Denise Our 11 Royal Elizabeth Ryan, James Mackay, Dani De’ath, Petrahai, Gergely Salter, Sophie Arr, Elizabeth Bigg, Andrew Timlett, Franklin Claire Warren Ramm, – £4,163 Campbell and Peter  “I really feel, and I can say this with and I can feel, “I really all honesty, that if I hadn’t have been have that if I hadn’t all honesty, when I was, St Clare up by picked now. be alive I wouldn’t did really St Clare life.” my save Jennifer

Forest Vets Vets Forest Winter sponsored – £1,500 Walkies 

Callum Hynd ran the ran Hynd Callum Marathon – £450 Lochness 

You become the become You

Higgins Group Higgins Group held a Christmas – £1,302 raffle



process that matters.process about mentally It is your illness.” off from switching I writing the group “Through creative my a lot of able to write down became thoughts, – to put pen to paper. and fears being ‘a person’.” being ‘a your away “Illness takes independence. And you have. illness that you start to think that is all you’re has But St Clare of. capable me that still I am shown me.” It was like coming to the creative writing to the creative coming like It was permission me personal to had given group to open up and to use it write creatively feelings.” about my sessions to the creative “Coming helped me to find a part myself of away that had been locked of the illness.because Sometimes feel like you ill, are when you not able to be yourself. are you with consumed become You stop and you illness’ being ‘an

Rutland Marathon – £1,030 Rutland Andy Pegram ran the ran Pegram Andy



Sheila Thompson took part in the Thames – £255 Bridges Trek 

Art Exhibition in the Gibberd Gallery in Harlow. The event took place took place The event Galleryin the Gibberd in Harlow. than 30 pieces more and saw March 16th to 23rd from about more read can You of art on display. and sculpture the Art section Exhibition on the of our website. News In March, a number of our patients a number exhibited In March, their artwork at a community Art Exhibition held

Lorna Brown took part in the Brown Lorna Challenge – £1,460 Path Thames Clare Gallagher Clare over 13 races completed 12 months – £5,389.26 This can encourage them to reflect and express with their feelings express them and to reflect encourage This can emotions, similar in a safe experiencing environment. others who are patients learn new At group can our fortnightly drop-in creative by our activities.Run creative through skills enjoyment and find Assistant, patients attendTherapy to, can want and when they as made friends with have in touch those they them to keep allowing ongoing emotional support.with, and to receive Our new creative drop-in group builds on our already popular builds on our already group drop-in creative Our new running been have which art writing workshops and creative a very activities are Creative of years. a number for successfully life memories. and share patients for powerful way to explore The power of creativity of The power   “I may not be able to make a masterpiece – a masterpiece to make not be able “I may St Clare, I just completely forget about it all. forget I just completely St Clare, – relax off and to switch It is just so nice to do.” is not easy which for the entire day I am reminded that the day I am reminded for I am entire the But for twonot well. I spend hours at “One of the best parts“One about Day Therapy the artare writing In groups. and creative why forget literally sessions you the creative at the When I am at are Hospice. home, you and strife trouble – and my I have I know herself that had been locked her illness. by away like you, gave her permission gave to you, like open up about her feelings and emotions, and to find a part of that taking part in the creative supportersworkshops, funded by Jennifer first startedcoming to when St for Day Therapy Clare Jennifer’s story she was diagnosed withshe was a life-limiting lung disease Jennifer in 2015. found but I thoroughly enjoy making it! It’s the it! It’s making enjoy but I thoroughly Volunteer Compassionate Neighbours In February 2018 we launched a brand-new community-led project called Compassionate Neighbours to support those with a life-limiting illness or who are experiencing social isolation in our communities. People living with a life-limiting illness often struggle with loneliness. Compassionate Neighbours can really make a difference and offer some extra support. They are a network of trained volunteers who offer their time, companionship and a listening ear to people living in their community who are coping with illness or social isolation.

St Clare is delighted to be working in “I am excited to be taking on this role partnership with Isabel Hospice and and to work with our supporters to get Garden House Hospice Care to launch this new project off the ground. We know this project right across West Essex and that there are people facing death and East and North Hertfordshire. Our new dying on their own, and we know that Compassionate Neighbours Project there is a desire in our communities to be Manager, Stacey Towler, said: there for one another, and Compassionate Neighbours is about unlocking and enabling this to happen.” Compassionate Neighbours help If you would like to become a others by: Compassionate Neighbour we’d love to hear from you. Volunteers must be visiting regularly over 18. We will carry out a relevant offering companionship, emotional DBS check and you must be willing to support and a listening ear give up your time on a regular basis. To find out more please visit our helping them to do the things they like doing website or contact Stacey Towler on 01279 773729 or at helping them stay connected to their [email protected] Compassionate Neighbours Project Manager, Stacey Towler community, family and friends

“I love volunteering Love Volunteering “We love our because it’s good We love our volunteers, and they volunteers.They give to see the smiles on the most precious gift people’s faces.” love volunteering with us! of all, their time.” David Tracey

“I love volunteering because it’s an opportunity to give something “Our volunteers are worth back after the care we received.” their weight in gold!” Tracy Margaret

Thank you Geraldine Wilson held the annual David Stradling held a memorial rugby Peter Heap’s Maunden Debden Santa Run – £8,668.13 match for Darren Brown – £2,645.77 Lunch – £2,137 South Loughton Old Walker’s Stephanie Ricciardi’s Kids’ Matching Green Tye Green Indoor Harlow Friends’ Society & Victoria Tavern held Christmas Craft event in classic and sports car Bowls Club annual year of fundraising – an autumn walk – £1,271 Bishop’s Stortford – £1,130 club show – £800 event – £1,316 £2,500 8 Shop Vintage & Retro Collection In February, our Harlow shop launched a Vintage & Retro collection in-store! Offering a wide array of gorgeous vintage and retro clothing, accessories, collectables and quirky bric-a-brac, this small haven of kooky fashion and pre-00s memorabilia is a treasure trove for local fashionistas and thrift shoppers. The collection aims to offer one-off vintage and retro finds, thriving on the support of local fashion enthusiasts. To shop the collection or donate your pre-loved vintage items, please visit our Harlow shop. Where does dis-co? Can’t find a place for your old vinyl records? St Clare has the answer! Donate your old vinyl to us and help to make a difference in your local community with the power of music. Our Bishop’s Stortford specialist music store is in need of vinyl donations. If you’ve got unwanted pre-loved records, drop them off to your local St Clare shop and help to raise vital funding.

Where’s my local shop? Bishop’s Stortford 10 Devoils Lane CM23 3XH Tel: 01279 755990 Open: 9am to 5pm Mon to Sat, 10am to 4pm Sun Show our Epping shop some love Buckhurst Hill Scarlet, 46 Queens Road IG9 5BY Tel: 020 8505 5110 The St Clare shop in Epping has been on the High Street for more than 15 years and Open: 9.15am to 5.15pm Mon to Sat is home to some fantastic finds. From homeware and furniture, to quality clothing and collectibles, shopping with us in Epping is a treat for you – and a great help to us! Debden 72 The Broadway, Debden IG10 3SY Our eight shops generate nearly half a million pounds in vital funding for our Tel: 020 8502 2361. Open: 9am to 5pm Mon to Sat hospice care every year, so shopping in a charity shop really is a caring thing to do. Epping 182 High Street CM16 4AQ Tel: 01992 575092. Open: 9am to 5pm Mon to Sat It’s thanks to our incredible shop volunteers, who make up more than Gt Dunmow 41 High Street CM6 1AE 90% of our shop teams, that we are Tel: 01371 875756 able to achieve this. Our Epping Open: 9am to 5pm Mon to Sat shop is on the lookout for more Harlow Unit 2A, St James Centre, volunteers to lend a hand. Just four East Road CM20 2BJ hours each week, helping to sort Tel: 01279 639760 donations or working on the shop Open: 9am to 4.30pm Mon to Sat, floor, makes such a difference. 10.30am to 4pm Sun Will you be a part of it? Loughton 271 High Road IG10 1AH Tel: 020 8508 0766 For more information about becoming a volunteer in our Epping Open: 9.15am to 5.15pm Mon to Sat & first shop please visit stclarehospice.org.uk/volunteers or contact Sunday of every month Voluntary Services Manager, Rob Wallace, on 01279 773722 or Saffron Walden 1 Mercers Row CB10 1HD email [email protected] Tel: 01799 523573 Open: 9am to 5pm Mon to Sat Free furniture collections NEW SHOP COMING TO HARLOW TOWN CENTRE SOON! Tel: 01279 639760

Churchgate Sausage Shop’s Brian Street’s annual golf day in Loughton Supporters of Harlow College – £433.58 annual Chilli Sausage memory of Heather – £1,443.44 St Clare’s Quiz Night – £1,150 St Margaret’s Preparatory Competition – £248.27  Paul Blake’s Christmas Saffron Walden Union of Musicians’ School and some very special Abridge Fireworks night – £2,000 Lights – £1,762.42 weekend of busking – £479.31 students – £3,197.78

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stclarehospice.org.uk Christmas Fayre.

NEW Saffron Walden NEW Saffron Friday 2nd November. Friday 2nd November.

Tickets are £10 from Carol on 01992 718859 or Audrey on 01279 423457. Charity Lunch, Manuden Friday 19th October, 2018 Grab your friends and join us for the annual Manuden Lunch organised by St Clare supporter Peter Heap, with food prepared by Clavering-based caterer, Anna Shutes. Held at Manuden Village Community Hall from 12pm – 2.30pm with a two course meal, a range of stalls and a raffle. Tickets cost £20 per person and are available from Peter Heap on 01279 817823 or Valerie Bartram on 01279 814544. Posh Afternoon Tea, Hastingwood Sunday 21st October, 2018 Join our Harlow Friends for some scrumptious sandwiches and homemade cakes at their popular Posh Afternoon Tea at Hastingwood village hall from 3pm.

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01279 773738 to book a table. food and drink. Contact Test your general knowledge at our summer quiz at the Hospice – can you outwit the competition? Max 8 players per team, tickets £7 each. the Queen’s Head pub on Churchgate Street. Face painting, bouncy castle and kids’ games from 12noon, competition starts at 1pm. Contact Dani De’ath on 01279 773738 for more information. St Clare Quiz, Hastingwood Tuesday 28th August 2018 Spicy Sausage Competition, Old Harlow Sunday 26th August 2018 Churchgate Sausage Shop is once again hosting its annual Chilli Sausage Competition and BBQ this summer at Go Bright Week Saturday 14th – Sunday 22nd July 2018 Make sure your school, work place or community group gets on board for this year’s Go Bright Week! Dress up, eat cake, wear a wig or paint your face! Contact Dani De’ath on 01279 773738 to take part.

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What’s this on Summer… For more information more For contact on [email protected] Fundraising festival event. Contact Emma Broadbent on 01279 773754 for more information. Walk at The Water Gardens in Harlow. The walk will set off at 11am plus a family-friendly festival of stalls, games and treats to entertain the kids from 10am – 3pm. Tickets for the walk cost £12 per adult and £5 per child. Free entry to the 01279 773758 for more information. Go Bright Walk, Harlow Saturday 14th July 2018 Take part in our first ever Go Bright per team. Contact Amy Jacobs on Corporate Football Tournament, Harlow Corporate Football Tournament, Harlow Thursday 21st June 2018 Put your ball skills to the test at Harlow Town FC Arena. Round-robin 5-a-side tournament starting at 6pm, £200 the Jubilee Field. Contact Linda on 01279 731629 to book a stall. a dog show. Free entry at the Fox Inn, Matching Tye and free car parking on May Day at the Fox Inn, Matching Tye May Day at the Fox Inn, Matching Tye Monday 7th May 2018 Celebrate May Day in style with fairground rides, Maypole dancing and to return rather than over a single weekend. That means a single weekend. rather than over even will have event fans of the green-fingered that than the 30 gardens more longer to explore the be opening for will Hospice. Entry to participating on the is payable gardens available in many of the gardens. up a FREE Pick in many available of our 8 shops at of the any gardens brochure here: stclarehospice.org.uk/ our website or visit get-involved/open-gardens Dani De’ath details on 01279 773738 call For gate and entry starts or £3 per garden, from are and lunches cakes of gardens. Tea, group or email [email protected]

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Fundraise Photo credit: Vikki Lince Winter Walkies is Fundraise Have you Ticked ‘Yes’ a barking success for St Clare? You may have heard in the news, or from other causes you From Beagles to Bulldogs, and Sausage Dogs to Schnauzers, more support, about changes that are happening in data protection than 100 dogs of all shapes and sizes joined our twelfth annual 5k laws which will impact charities and all other organisations up countryside doggie walk held on 25th February. At the head of the and down the country, including St Clare Hospice. pack was the winner of our Cutest Canine competition, pawfect Milo, who led more than 250 walkers out the Hospice gates for the This is a huge move that will affect all areas of our care – care sponsored countryside stroll. that we provide to people in your local community who need us. We need you and your continued support now, more than The event organiser, Emma Broadbent, said: “Thank you so much to ever – and it is so simple to do. everyone who came. It really was a sight to see so many happy, wagging tails held aloft as all the walkers set off. It was a privilege to As of Friday 25th May 2018, we will no longer be able to organise such a fun event and to see so many people joining forces contact you unless you tell us if and how we can. That means to help raise money and awareness for their local hospice.” that you need to tick ‘Yes’ to being contacted by us, and at the same time let us know what your contact preferences are This year’s event was kindly sponsored by Forest Vets from Epping. (post, email, phone, or text). A simple ‘tick’ today means that we can continue to keep you updated about the difference your support makes to local NEW flagship Clare runs 13 races families when they need it most, and in a way that you are most summer 5k – Huge congratulations to the incredible Clare Gallagher who ran comfortable with. Go Bright 13 races in 12 months for St Clare in 2017. Covering 160 race Of course, we only want you to receive updates miles, Clare raised over £5,000 in vital funding for our hospice – Walk! from us in the way that’s right for you. It’s so enough to fund two weeks of the care and support provided by important to us that we get this right for you. our Patient and Family Support team. Feeling inspired? Challenge yourself this summer and embark on Ticking ‘Yes’ is so easy to do, and takes just minutes. an adventure for St Clare! From trekking the Great Wall of China You can tell us by: or hiking the Himalayas, to marathons, skydiving and more, there’s something for everyone to get active in their local community. Completing the ‘How we communicate with you’ section on the form on page 12 Please visit stclarehospice.org.uk/get-involved/challenges for more information. Visiting our website and updating your contact preferences at stclarehospice.org.uk/tick-yes Calling our Supporter Care team on Take part in our 2nd annual Go Bright week this summer and help to 01279 773750 make it the brightest week in the St Clare calendar. From Saturday Remember! 14th to Sunday 22nd July Go Bright is open to everyone and is all You can still update about supporting St Clare. your contact preferences at any Our lovely, bright St Clare logo is all the colours of the rainbow – and time, even after we want to celebrate the brightness and happiness that St Clare brings 25th May 2018. to the lives of our community – by holding a whole week of brightly coloured celebrations for St Clare! Why not hold a Go Bright dress-down day, bake a bright rainbow cake and hold a bake sale, or even wear a bright-coloured wig for the day at your school, workplace or community group? Whatever you do you will be helping to raise awareness of our work in your local community, and raise much-needed funds for us. Football Tournament The week will kick-off with our first ever Go Bright Walk – the brightest Could your business football team be the winners of the 5k family fun walk in West Essex! Taking place at The Water Gardens highly coveted St Clare Corporate Football Trophy? in Harlow on Saturday 14th July, the walk will set off at 11am with a Join us on Thursday 21st June, family-friendly festival of stalls, games and treats to entertain the kids 6pm, at Harlow Town FC, for from 10am – 3pm. It’s a fantastic family day out and a great way to a round-robin 5-a-side football kick-start your summer holidays. tournament against your fellow Find out more about our flagship summer fundraising event, the local businesses. Call Amy on Go Bright Walk, on our website at stclarehospice.org.uk/event/ 01279 773758 or email amy. go-bright-walk or phone the Events team on 01279 773754. [email protected] Contact our Community Fundraising team on 01279 773738 if you The tournament is kindly want to take part in Go Bright Week with your school, workplace or sponsored by Gates Ford. community group.

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