St. Andrew’s Hospice endeavours to provide a high standard of specialist palliative care to the people of Lanarkshire, encompassing human dignity and compassion. As Lanarkshire's only specialist palliative care hospice, we provide multidisciplinary support for our patients, their families and carers. Whilst we receive funding from NHS Lanarkshire and other sources, this only partially covers our running costs. Continued provision of these services is only made possible by the generosity and assistance of the people of Lanarkshire.

It’s time for me to get my boots on, find my sleeping bag in the loft and put batteries in my head torch. I will be trying to climb Kilimanjaro from 21st March with a group of other fundraisers. 

From slightly bitter experience I know this is an arduous 7 day climb in difficult and challenging conditions. Planning to overcome the altitude and pathetic inability to sleep in a tent and get to the top this time...