WHEN mum-of-two Alison Holmes died from breast cancer at the age of just 43 her husband and teenage children were devastated.
Husband Andy, from Pershore, was left “completely at sea” by the tragedy.
The family was helped through their grief by staff at St Richard’s Hospice.
Andy and children Ben and Steph say they are eternally grateful to the Worcester-based organisation.
St Richard’s celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and now helps 1,800 patients and their families every year.
Today your Worcester News launches a special fund-raising campaign to mark the hospice’s silver jubilee.
From now until the end of the year we will be reporting on the work of the hospice, the families it supports, and the ways in which local people help it to raise the millions needed to run St Richard’s.
Readers can donate to our appeal via a special coupon that will be printed regularly or online via our website.
Worcester News editor Kevin Ward said: “We are delighted to be helping St Richard’s Hospice in this very special year. Anyone who has used its services or visited the hospice in Wildwood Drive knows the fantastic job it does.
“I’m sure our readers will respond to our appeal with their usual generosity, even in these tough economic times.”
Mark Jackson, chief executive of the hospice, said: "St Richard's Hospice is a fantastic credit to the people of Worcester. They're the people who made the hospice possible. We could not have built our fantastic hospice building if it wasn't for their support. The staggering thing is, what did we do before the arrival of modern hospices?"
He said the appeal would allow more people to have the opportunity to be cared for at home if they so wished.
"Hospice is not a place but a philosophy of care that's delivered where the patient is and we want to take that philosophy of care to the patient."
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Donating money to St Richard's couldn't be easier.
Cut out the coupon in the print edition of today's Worcester News, visit our dedicated fund-raising page at justgiving.com/wn4strichards... or click the button below to go straight there.
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