Willow Burn Hospice
Urgent Appeal: Sponsor A Willow Burn Nurse
Will you help to sponsor a Willow Burn Hospice nurse so they can continue to provide exceptional care in Derwentside beyond the impact of Coronavirus.
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Will you sponsor a Willow Burn Hospice Nurse so they can continue to provide exceptional care in Derwentside beyond the impact of Coronavirus?
At Willow Burn our mission is to treasure lives through the provision of seamless personalised high quality care and we have a wonderful team of nurses and healthcare professionals working round-the-clock, 24 hours a day, providing free Hospice care. They are the heart and soul of Willow Burn and we are sure you will agree they do an amazing job, even when they are challenged with a pandemic. But the team needs your help.
From the very first step into the hospice I felt really calm and welcome. Its quite a special place because you just feel care rushing towards you.
Willow Burn only receives 30% of our income from the local government. So our other income streams are vitally important to the Hospice but over the next three months we are going to see a huge impact on our finances. In the last two weeks alone we have had to make huge changes to our income generation plans in order to reduce risk to our patients, volunteers, staff and the public. To date, we have had to temporarily close The Willows Café and our three charity shops, as well as postponing our annual ball and suspending all planned fundraising events until further notice. This is a 70% reduction in income.
We need your help
We are enormously proud of our team and their role in the community - they are dedicated to providing a vital service for people living with a terminal illness and their families in Derwentside but we need your help to continue in the future. If you are in a position to do so, please support your Local Hospice by giving a donation today to sponsor our Nursing Team, it will truly make a difference at a time when our patients and their families need them the most.
We will leave you with the words of the late Jim Alderson, a volunteer at Willow Burn for over 20 years, his poem says it all...
When you go to Willow Burn cast your eyes around, see the angels scuttling by, so all are safe and sound! All the hustle and each tread, the smiles upon their faces. Willing hands and willing hearts, sometimes missed in other places. Concern, the order of the day is burned into their being doesn't need encouragement or any overseeing. Care, compassion, in the eyes, concern with every touch, all is freely given and they never ask for much. So turn your thoughts to Willow Burn where caring takes its course! Ladies, I salute you, the Angels of the North.