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St Catherine's Hospice is a charity dedicated to providing specialised end of life care and support to local people, their families, friends and carers.
For over 30 years we have been providing high quality hospice care, free of charge, to people living in Crawley, Horsham, Mid Sussex and East Surrey. Hospice care is based on the belief that each person is more than their illness, and that each of us has unique physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs. St Catherine's responds to the needs of each individual, helping people achieve the best possible quality of life.
This highly personal approach to care takes time, skill and experience from a professional team. We care for people in the hospice, in their homes and in nursing homes. We also provide training, advice and support to other health professionals.
We critically rely on voluntary donations and legacies and our care is only made possible thanks to the generosity of supporters and volunteers. Just over £2.5m of our funding is provided by the NHS and we rely heavily on the support of local people, companies and trusts to raise the rest of our running costs. Each year we need to raise £5.5m in voluntary income to ensure we can keep providing our vital services to those who need them.
HSDP have raised a fantastic£3,498.82 since choosing the hospice as their charity in 2014, the money was raised through participating in the Dragon Boat Festival 2014 and the Superhero Abseil 2015.
Here are some figures that may help show how the money raised from HSDP has a fantastic impact on the hospice and could go towards helping pay for the following.
The following amounts would provide all our care services by the relevant department for an entire day:
A young man sees an old man on the beach, walking slowly and picking up one starfish after another and tossing each one gently into the ocean. "Why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?" he asks. "Because the sun is up and the tide is going out and if I don't throw them further in they will die." "But, old man, don't you realize there are miles and miles of beach and starfish all along it! You can't possibly save them all. If you do it all day, your efforts won't make any difference at all." The old man then bent down to pick up another starfish and threw it into the sea. "It made a difference to that one," he said with a smile.
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