OPERATIONS

Has another year really passed already? In last year’s review, I was extolling the virtues of our new garden and how it was made possible with the help of two corporate sponsors and teams of volunteers.


 

Now, twelve months on, the garden is looking superb and this is again due to volunteers, who maintain it, ably supported by a local charity: Bells Piece Horticulture.

In a year when our volunteers received a royal accolade, I feel it is important to highlight the work that volunteers do in maintaining the buildings, grounds and facilities at the Hospice and also the considerable assistance they provide with administrative functions. They have built new racks for us at the front of the Hospice to increase the revenue from our plant sales; they have constructed a therapeutic garden for our Day Care patients and a host of other similar initiatives, which we would not otherwise be able to afford.

We now have links with several companies who provide us with volunteer support: Novartis, who maintain our garden furniture and Barclays, BAe and Zurich Insurance, all of whom have provided us with teams of decorators to help improve the Hospice environment for patients and staff.

We also have a considerable number of volunteers with specialist skills, who have come forward to help us administratively, particularly in Finance and IT. We have one volunteer who handles all our tax reclaims, a valuable source of income to us and other volunteers who handle IT projects for us, such as the establishing of a security policy for our IT network to meet the requirements of the NHS.

In addition, we have teams of volunteers who count money for us from our ‘Pennies from Heaven’ boxes and other fundraising events.

It is impossible to even estimate the value of the work that volunteers do for us either in financial terms or in goodwill but our gratitude goes out to them all.

David Maskell
Director of Operations

Summer 2003 Highlights


 
 		 The support of the Worshipful Company of Barbers and Surgeons has enabled Day Care to extend the work of the Hospice
 
Local residents start supporting us from a young age at the Garden Party at Farnham Castle
 
 
 

 
 		 The Oddfellows concert, featuring Hospice Fundraiser Claire Walker as guest soloist, raised the roof at the Prince’s Hall, Aldershot
 
Patients and staff joined in the Tea at Three event and dressed in yellow to raise funds for the Hospice

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