Clare Handford
Weldmar Beaminster Friends Group
Fundraising for Weldmar Hospicecare
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The Weldmar Cancer Hospice URGENTLY needs your help, more now than ever before.
So please see below for ideas for personal challenges or please just donate - any amount will make a big difference.
Two thirds of it's normal fundraising income has dried up. Its 26 shops are closed & all events/activities cancelled. Please help us to ensure Weldmar can continue to provide its vital specialist care.
Please support Weldmar now because:
- It costs £18,000 a day to keep running.
- All their care is free & reliant on public donations.
- Over 2,800 people benefit each year from their care & support.
- They employ nurses, doctors, therapists, social workers, and offer counselling services.
- It is an independent charity only working in Dorset with 79% of its funds raised through public donations.
- They provide day services at Trimar Hospice Weymouth & the Inpatient Unit in Dorchester, Westminster Memorial Hospital in Shaftesbury, and in Blandford and Bridport Community Hospitals.
- Services also include physiotherapy, occupational therapy, chaplaincy, complementary therapy and creative arts, together with child and family support and bereavement care.
- The Weldmar Community Nurses visit patients at home, in care homes and in community hospitals.
- They provide a 24/7 Advice Line staffed by clinical professionals.
- They are very concerned they will not be able to continue this for future generations.
The Weldmar Beaminster Friends Group:
Sue Dean, Caro Vaughan-Lee, Ros Senior, Jeanette Lowe, Patricia Harding, Francesca Hurrell, Jackie Larkman, Clare Handford.
PLEASE SIGN UP TO DO A PERSONAL CHALLENGE (however small) & GET YOUR FRIENDS/FAMILY DONATING TO SUPPORT YOU OR PLEASE JUST DONATE TO WELDMAR USING THE LINK ON THIS PAGE.
SIGN UP TO A PERSONAL CHALLENGE - the deadline for challenges to be completed by is 31st July 2020. Everyone who signs up to do a challenge will be named on this page with their challenge. All your sponsors can donate on this page and all money will go direct to Weldmar.
Here are some ideas, but you can choose any challenge:
THREE PEAKS IN THREE DAYS - The Weldmar Beaminster Friends Group have challenged themselves to walk the three peaks of West Dorset (Colmers Hill, Golden Cap & Lewesdon Hill) in three days (once the lockdown has eased). Join them or do this on your own. If you would like to join them, please email us (address below).
WALK/CYCLE/RUN YOUR AGE FOR WELDMAR - walk, cycle, run your age in miles or Km over any period of time that you want up to the deadline date of 31st July 2020.
WALK/CYCLE/RUN 1/2/3/4/5km, 10km, 50km or a marathon 26.2 miles!
WALK AROUND YOUR GARDEN FOR A SET DISTANCE
CLIMB A LANDMARK EG: EVEREST, THE EIFFEL TOWER, ST PAULS CATHEDRAL ON YOUR STAIRS
KNIT, COOK, .........
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SIGN UP TO A PERSONAL CHALLENGE, PLEASE EMAIL Sue Dean on susan.dean999@btinternet.com or for more information call her on 07831 218374.
Weldmar is such an amazing and worthwhile cause and we really don't want it to come under threat, so sign up today or please just make a donation. Every donation will make a big difference.
PERSONAL CHALLENGERS:
Julia Hailes/Jamie Macdonald - A SUPER CHALLENGING BIKE RIDE COVERING THE 3 PEAKS OF DORSET… Golden Cap, Colmers Hill & Lewesdon Hill, covering 35 miles.
Sue Dean - has challenged herself to cycle her age, 68 miles in one go!
Clare Handford - has challenged herself to run a marathon 26.2 miles over 26 days.
Ros Senior - has challenged herself to walk her age - 75 miles in 10 days.
The Beaminster Friends Group - Sue Dean, Clare Handford, Caro Vaughan-Lee, Ros Senior, Jeanette Lowe, Patricia Harding, Francesca Hurrell will be walking the three peaks of West Dorset in three days.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT