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Updated on Jul 9th 2011 at 8:26 AM from the JustGiving API
I did it!!! Major achievement for me as I am the most unfit, kitkat eating couch potato ever!!! Thanks to everyone who sponsored me, so far in total £92500:00 was raised by everyone last night!
<p>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</p> <p>Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, JustGiving will send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.</p> <p>So please dig deep and donate now.</p> <div class="componentheading">I, along with my fantastic daughter Abigail and the girls from work are taking part in Hospice at Home West Cumbria's Ladies Midnight Walk on 8th July 2011.</div> <div class="componentheading">This is a 6 mile walk along the streets of Whitehaven.</div> <table class="blog" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> </tbody> </table> <div id="ja-banner"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <div style="text-align: left;"><span class="dropcap">H</span>ospice at Home West Cumbria was established in 1987. It exists to provide the best possible palliative care to terminally ill patients, to give help and support to their carers/loved ones, and to make its services available to everybody in West Cumbria who needs them. </div> </span></strong><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><strong> </strong><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">The heart of their operation is their home nursing service, giving skilled nursing support on a one-to-one basis to any adult with a terminal illness in their own home. This provides respite care for patients and their families; it enables terminally ill patients to remain at home and dying patients to be discharged from hospital to their own homes. They are one of the very few providers of home nursing for the terminally ill, and were one of the two hospices that pioneered this service in 1987. </span></strong><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><strong></strong><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Additionally they provide Hospice Support in three community locations, Hospice Day Care in two places, a Lymphoedema Service, and a Bereavement Support Service. Patients can get Complementary Therapy treatment at the Hospice Support sessions and at hospice Day Care or in their own homes. All services are provided free.The NHS provides sufficient funding to cover about 1/3 of our costs. The rest, £7,500 a week, has to be raised locally through voluntary donations, fundraising and legacies.</span></strong></div>