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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.