Our campaign is now complete. 2334 supporters helped us raise £21,943.00
Visit the charity's profile
The campaign has now expired but it's not too late to support this charity.
Visit the charity's profileThis will help ensure The Myton Hospices can continue to provide our services free of charge to people with a terminal or life limiting illness, and their families, when they need us most.
150 adrenaline junkies will descend 90 feet down the side of Coventry Cathedral for our third abseil event!
Your support will enable Myton to be there for more people like Jill Lee and her sister Sally who spent her final days on our Inpatient Unit:
At the age of 70, Jill Lee discovered her inner adrenaline junkie when she signed up to Mytons abseil!
Jill has been supporting Myton for 20 years, after her dad was cared for at Warwick Myton Hospice in 1999. But when her younger sister, Sally, was diagnosed with terminal cancer and told her family that when the time came she wanted to die at Myton, Jill decided it was time to take on a big challenge in aid of Myton.
She said:
Sally had been diagnosed by then and I knew what her wishes were she wanted to die in Myton so thats why I did the abseil and I really enjoyed it! I would have gone up again straight away because it was so good.
The thing is, none of us know when we might need the services Myton provides. My dad, my niece, and my brother-in-law were also all so well looked after at Myton. Its a place where people come to live when Sally was admitted in May she improved enough to come home. She was then admitted again in July.
Jill also signed up to our first ever Zip Wire event but as the day drew nearer, Sallys condition deteriorated further but she told her sister to make sure she completed the challenge.
I felt good doing the events it did me good as well as raising money. I did the Zip Wire on the Saturday, and Sally died on the following Friday.
* Charities pay a small fee for our service. Find out how much it is and what we do for it.
