Giving Day
Huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our first ever Giving Day. You've collectively helped us raise over £300,000 in just 33 hours, in support of St Oswald’s Hospice patients and families.
Huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our first ever Giving Day.
The total raised stands at over £312,000, which will help our teams to continue to provide expert and specialist care and support care to babies, children, young people and adults with life-limiting conditions, and for their families too. We are overjoyed, humbled and beyond grateful. The support from our community has blown us away.
Huge and heartfelt thank you to everyone who played a part. You are all our Champions and we couldn’t have done this without you.
Donations can still be made to the Giving Day campaign in support of St Oswald’s Hospice until Friday 7th April at www.charityextra.com/stoswaldshospice although the matched funding has now ran out so gifts will no longer be doubled but will be gratefully received and put to good use.
How your donations can make a difference
Meet some of the families who rely on the support of St Oswald’s Hospice. Your Giving Day donation will support them and hundreds of other like them.
Thank you.
Aled's story
Aled shares how St Oswald's Hospice supported his family when his wife Emma was an Inpatient on the Adult Inpatient Unit.
Watch Aled's storyJon and Clodagh’s story
Jon and Clodagh's son, Gareth, uses St Oswald's Hospice for short respite breaks. The family share how the hospice's support is invaluable to them all, and what Gareth enjoys doing during his stays, which Clodagh describes as 'a holiday for him, not respite.'
Watch Jon and Clodagh's storyJackie's story
Jackie uses our Focus on Living Centre Day Services and she explains how the staff there focus on her as a person and not just someone with an illness, and how important that is to her wellbeing.
Watch Jackie's storyHarry's story
Harry is a young person who came to St Oswald's Hospice for bereavement support after the death of his dad. He talks about how the support from Beth, our Children's Bereavement Support Worker, helped him through a difficult time and find the words to express how he was feeling to his family.
Watch Harry's story