Hospice Isle of Man marked UK national week at the beginning of October with a series of education, awareness and fundraising activities.
This year the clinical team led by Diane Corrin, Matron of Hospice, organised some fantastic events starting with a walk from Peel to Hospice on Sunday morning. 42 walkers took part in this event. The aim was for each team to walk 30 miles for Hospice.
The next event was a quiz at the Outback with teams pitting themselves against each other with former Mayor David Ashford acting as quiz master!
Thursday saw a fabulous blue coffee morning at St John’s Methodist Church hall with some wonderful cakes on sale to be eaten at the event or taken away for later digestion!
Friday was a very busy day with the children’s hospice bears of Oskar and Craig visiting offices and schools taking part in ‘blue’ Friday. There was also a blue coffee morning in the Scholl Centre Day Unit at Hospice with lots of people attending. Again blue cakes were a central theme! Tours were also offered.
Boots The Chemist held a week of awareness and fundraising for the whole week while Heron and Brearley held a blues night at the Railway and Artisan sold blue cocktails! The Manx Electricity Authority got involved by illuminating the power station for one night only to mark this care week.
Di Corrin expressed her gratitude to the clinical team at Hospice for getting involved and being outside their comfort zone! She added: “Just over ?2,200 was raised during the week, it was great fun and a real team effort.” “Thank you to everyone that supported the week, particularly Boots the Chemist, Heron and Brearley and the MEA.” “I would also like to thank all staff and volunteers at Hospice that baked and ate lots of cakes – we had a terrific week and will be definitely getting involved next year.”
Hospice’s next event will be on Sunday 24th November 2013 with their Night Before Christmas fair between noon-5pm at the Villa Marina.
To find out more about way of supporting your local hospice visit www.hospice.org.im, like them on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/#!/hospice.iom or follow them on Twitter @hospiceiom.
Photo courtesy of Bill Dale.
