Ayrshire Hospice rocks the vote
By Tracy Flynn, Chief Executive Officer
By Callum Duffy, Senior Fundraiser
As we approach the end of 2024, I am excited to share some significant milestones and reflections with you. Our Capital Build Project is nearing completion, and in the new year, we will return to our beloved home at Racecourse Road. This marks a fresh chapter in our journey of care and compassion, with our Hospice Teams and patients soon back in this cherished space. This issue highlights some of the incredible events and fundraisers from 2024 - our Golf Day, Autumn Ball, Go Purple, and the many inspiring people who ran, swam, baked, danced, and tackled obstacle courses for the Ayrshire Hospice. Your dedication has been truly inspiring and humbling. In clinical care, we’re proud to announce our partnership with Ayrshire College for a new qualification in palliative and end-of-life care. You’ll also read about our grief and bereavement outreach, our Social Workers’ vital role, and the adoption of the ReSPECT process, all of which strengthen our commitment to exceptional care for patients and their families. On the retail front, we’re delighted to offer our beautiful range of Christmas Cards, 2025 diaries, and a special 2025 calendar. This year, over 500 incredible entries were submitted for our calendar competition, and from those, 12 stunning photographs were selected, including the overall winner whose photo graces the front cover of the calendar. We’re excited to continue this community tradition next year. We warmly invite you to our “Light Up a Life Reflection” on the 8th of December at the Auld Kirk in Ayr - a time to honour cherished memories and find solace in shared remembrance. Finally, my deepest thanks to the Ayrshire and Arran community for your unwavering support. May this festive season bring you peace, warmth, and renewed hope for the year ahead. With gratitude, Light up a Life service Building on last year’s event, we look forward to Light Up a Life this year in the Auld Kirk of Ayr, Blackfriars Walk, on Sunday 8 December at 3.00pm. With contributions from the Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra, and Hospice and school choirs, there will be an opportunity to light a candle in memory of a loved one and fill in a paper star that will later be placed on the Christmas tree at the in-patient unit. Light Up a Life is an event to remember, honour, and acknowledge all that our loved ones meant and mean to us. Tickets are free but attendees must register to ensure their place which can be done via www.ayrshirehospice.org
The Ayrshire Hospice recently took part in South Ayrshire Council’s Participatory Budgeting process. As part of this process, the Ayrshire Hospice requested that the local community in Ayr South and its surrounding villages kindly cast votes in support of the Children and Young Persons Service. We’re delighted to have learnt that through the local community’s endorsement of the Ayrshire Hospice through this process, we successfully secured £3,000. This donation will go towards purchasing additional Worry Dolls and Bereavement Books for the Children and Young Persons Counsellor to provide to young people across Ayrshire and Arran. Children can take these resources home to help them to understand and process their feelings around illness, death, and dying. The Children and Young Persons Service has supported children of various ages through its work, including using the resources we have secured funding for. Many children have reported positive feedback from their experience with the service.
While there are so many quotes that could illustrate the positive impact this work makes, one 7-year-old boy’s description of his counselling sessions sums it up best - they were “banging”. Through the local communities’ support, we will have more books and dolls to give away to the children we support. Your support makes providing this care possible. Thank You!
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November 2024 | EDITION 38
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