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Cotswold Care Hospice, Burleigh LaneMinchinhampton Gloucestershire GL5 2PQ

T. 01453 886868 www.cotswoldcare.org.ukRegistered Charity No. 298627

Autumn 2012

How we make every day special

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My donation makes a difference

- Author Katie Fforde finds out

Win £25,000 and support us

This is a nurturing place

- A patient’s story

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Turn your clothes into cash

What happens when you donate a bag of clothes…Your donated clothes are sorted and those that are not suitable to sell are recycled and sold as rag.

The clothes that are suitable for sale go into our shops and the better quality the clothes the more money we can raise.

Generally we could make around £50 or more from sales of a typical bag of clothes donated. *

That’s enough to help pay for two bereavement counselling sessions here at the Hospice.

Your unwanted clothes are precious to Cotswold Care Hospice. By selling them in one of our 14 charity shops they raise vital funds to help us provide much needed services.

Please continue to help us…Last year you donated 98,000 bags of clothes to Cotswold Care Hospice. Without your support we couldn’t stock our shops or raise money for the vital services we provide.

Please sign up to Gift Aid and make your donation worth even more - without costing you a penny. Last year we were able to claim £84,000. That’s enough to help pay for 168 months of visits to our day hospice.

Find out where our 14 shop locations are in Gloucestershire: www.cotswoldcare.org.uk*�Based�on�the�average�value�of�a�bag�of�clothes

WIN a £100 voucher…

We would really appreciate your feedback on our magazine. Once you have had time to read it please visit our website and complete our short survey and give us your views – for your chance to win a £100 John Lewis voucher.Closing�date�7th�October�2012.

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When we first opened the hospice, in a private house, we only supported a handful of people every week.

Now our Hospice at Home nurses alone will provide more than 19,000 hours of care this year.

We have a purpose-built hospice and help more than 600 people in Gloucestershire each and every year.

We could not have done any of this without your support. This issue is dedicated to all of you who have done

amazing deeds – from cycling to Paris to walking on hot coals - and raising precious funds for us.

These pages are full of your stories, about what you have done to raise money for Cotswold Care Hospice and how we have touched your life. We also tell you about how your contributions have made a difference to our services.

Again we see 2012 as a record year for our services. The need is so great. We cannot do it without your support.

Jules�Eaton,�Chief�Executive

We’ve come a long way in 25 years

4-5 What’s your hospice story?Find out what our supporters have been up to

6-7 This is a nurturing placeBusinesswoman Ruth Cornish talks about how Cotswold Care Hospice helped her

8-9 News on hospice eventsGreat hospice events from the past six months

10 Family support virtual bedsFather and son Clive and Robbie Petch join hundreds of chaps in the Men’s Walk

11 Girl power galoreJenny Hill talks about why she took part in the Cotswold Midnight Walk

12 Every little helpsWhy volunteers make such a difference to us

13 Celebrate our 25th in styleWin £25,000

14 See the difference you makeWhy regular donors are the bedrock of our charity

15 Dates for your diaryThere are loads of great events happening in aid of Cotswold Care Hospice

Contents

Find out how we could help you. Call care services on 01453 886868 or email [email protected]

Cover: Olympian Eddie ‘the Eagle’ Edwards is helping Cotswold Care Hospice promote its first cycle ride, the Cotswold Crunch. Photo: Thousand Word Media. Written: Damselfly Communications. Design: Nikky Blower.

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Charlotte Harrison and James Ford did a charity skydive in memory of her 22-year-old brother David. David’s family cared for him at their home in Stroud. Cotswold Care Hospice

at Home nurses provided support and “peace of mind” for David. Charlotte, 28, from Stroud, and James, a lorry driver from Hardwicke, raised more than £2,000.

Artists Fiona and John Owen celebrated their 25th Anniversary of exhibiting at The Old Chapel by opening their gardens to the public. Visitors to their one-acre

terraced garden at Chalford, near Stroud, raised £477. They were part of the first Cotswold Care Hospice Open Gardens event which saw 14 gardens open to the public.

Personal Best Fitness Studio launched a safari supper club in Nailsworth and raised £1,000 for Cotswold Care Hospice. Studio owner Carl Benton teamed up with

Mark@street, Hobbs Bistro and Wild Garlic to create the club. The four dates sold out with people enjoying a course at each of the restaurants. Carl is already planning his next supper club season.

Sean Garland is taking part in a trek to the Great Wall of China in October. The 41-year-old from Stroud gave up his job to look after his mum Sheila who had non-Hodgkin’s

lymphoma. Sheila died at her home in Stroud in November 2011. She attended day hospice at Cotswold Care Hospice and then received support from Cotswold Care Hospice at Home nurses.

What’s your hospice story?

This year Cotswold Care Hospice is celebrating its 25th Anniversary. How are you helping us celebrate?

Here are just a few of your stories…

“Cotswold Care Hospice at Home nurses provided

support and “peace of mind”

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Olivia McColl and Maisey Hammond from Foxmoor Primary School in Cashes Green, Stroud, raised £374 by holding a film, pizza and popcorn evening. Without help, the

nine-year-olds printed flyers, gathered raffle prizes, allocated jobs and coerced parents into helping. More than 180 children munched their way through 366 slices of pizza. The girls chose Cotswold Care Hospice because they both had grandparents who had benefited from care provided by the hospice.

Father and son Mike and Jordan Booth took part in the New York Marathon in memory of Mike’s mum Adrienne. Together with friends Daniel Gabb, Steve

Herbert and Neil Malpass, the Cotswold Care Trotters raised £14,985 for Cotswold Care Hospice. Hospice at Home nurses supported the family so that Adrienne, from Dursley, could spend her final days at home. “We were overwhelmed at what Cotswold Care Hospice could offer both our mum and our family,” says Mike.

The Stanley Old Boys, a group of friends, got on their bikes in a cycle ride from Kingsholm Stadium in Gloucester to Stade de France. A few of the old boys play touch rugby for the

Dodderers TRFC based in Stonehouse. Brian Channon said: “We recently lost a dear friend from Kings Stanley, Dave Nicol, who sadly lost his battle against cancer in November last year. Dave was supported by Cotswold Care Hospice.” Brian Channon, Neal Utting, Mark Rymell, Andy Lazenbury and Will Pinker cycled to Paris with Richard Loveridge driving the support car. The men travelled 270 miles in the saddle, raised more than £3,000 - and got to watch England beat France in the Six Nations match.

SJ Rhead is going to conquer mind over matter by taking part in the Cotswold Care Hospice Firewalk on 2nd November. The hospice supported her family as they cared for her

grandparents Alex and Betty Cook who both wished to die at home. “My gran used to love fire. It was quite normal for her to be burning garden rubbish with a gin and tonic in the other hand,” said SJ, a teacher. “I love a challenge and this is perfect for me.”

“We were overwhelmed at what Cotswold Care

Hospice could offer”


“Our world was turned upside down following my diagnosis of a less well-known form of blood cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

I am 45 and run my own Human Resources business. I am a mother of three children, a wife, a bread-winner – being ill just wasn’t in my life plan at all.

I had so much I wanted to do and felt I was spoiling things for everyone. Initially I found it hard to accept that I had cancer and would need others to look after me whilst I recovered.

But I was ill and needed a place where I could heal and rediscover myself.

In total I underwent three lots of chemotherapy and 15 bouts of radiotherapy to beat the disease.

The first time I visited Cotswold Care Hospice was just days after my first chemotherapy treatment.

I hardly had the energy to walk in there and was still in shock as so much had happened and so quickly.

Many people think that a hospice is a place to go to die but it isn’t. It is a place to go to get better, to regain that joy of living and to rediscover the important things to you.

It’s such a nurturing haven, from the wonderful homemade food - to the nurses who took the time to listen to all

my concerns and questions - to the art therapy which brought me so much joy and peace.

So I feel strengthened by this experience. I may go on to live another 50 years. None of us really know how long we have. However I certainly plan to make the most of my life now and fully appreciate and enjoy everything and everyone.

Businesswoman and mum Ruth Cornish, from Uley, writes about how Cotswold Care Hospice made a difference to her life.

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‘This is a nurturing place’


Every week, people such as Ruth, attend day hospice at Cotswold Care Hospice.

In the past six months we have received 331 referrals of people who need our care and support – 55 of those were for our day hospice.

Run three days a week, day hospice provides a range of services and support in addition to home-cooked nutritious meals and companionship.

While attending day hospice people can benefit from complementary therapies, nursing care, Art for Health, physiotherapy and counselling.

Cotswold Care Hospice also provides extensive outpatient services including

complementary therapy, Art for Health and lymphoedema clinics. In the past six months we have had 82 people referred to these services.

We host several NHS services at the hospice to ensure care and support is closer to your home. As well as the lymphoedema clinics, we host palliative care consultant clinics, heart failure clinics and a weekly pulmonary rehabilitation group. A team of community clinical nurse specialists are based here.

Artist Diana Aungier-Rosedonated some of her work for the artsAid exhibition at Holcombe Mill in Nailsworth. Diana, who lives in Stroud, has been receiving support from Cotswold Care Hospice since being diagnosed with breast cancer more than two years ago. “The hospice is a release. When you go to the hospice up on the common you feel on top of the world and very safe,” she says. The artsAid exhibition raised £1,340 for Cotswold Care Hospice.

Touching more lives

See what we’ve been up to…

We’ve had a fantastic six months.New events, amazing people and great support have all added up to make our 25th year a thrilling one.

In March more than 140 brave souls took part in our first ever Whole Hog, a cross country run with obstacles galore.


Held at Woodchester Mansion the event raised an amazing £11,000 for Cotswold Care Hospice.

In February we staged our Men’s Walk. It was the girls’ turn in June with the Midnight Walk.

Hundreds of people enjoyed our summer fete, held in May in the hospice grounds.

There were stalls, games, Pimms and wonderful home-baked treats. The fete raised £3,400.

To mark our 25th anniversary we held a special reception to say thank you to those people who have supported the charity over the years.



The Eastcombe men were walking in memory of wife and mother, Liz, who died in January. She was 56.

Cotswold Care Hospice at Home nurses helped Clive and his children look after Liz at home after she was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

“With their support we were able to care for Liz at home and ensure she spent her last days in the

home she was born in, which meant such a great deal to all of us,” says Clive who runs an architecture firm in Cheltenham.

They joined more than 550 men who enjoyed a walk, a pie, a pint and a great game of rugby. The men chose a five or ten-mile route, starting and finishing at Kingsholme rugby ground.

Gloucester flanker Pete Buxton officially started the walk. “It’s a great charity to support and looking around at all these guys ready to set off it has clearly captured the imagination,” he said.

The men raised more than £46,295 - enough to help pay for 1,851 hours of Hospice at Home care in people’s homes.

Cotswold Care Hospice at Home nurses support families and friends caring for loved ones who wish to remain in their own home.

In the last six months the team has provided more than 10,110 hours of care and made 3,843 visits to people’s homes.

The team expect to provide more than 20,000 hours of care this year - a huge increase from the number of hours Cotswold Care Hospice first provided when we launched the service five years ago.

In the first year of service, nurses provided more than 3,000 hours of care. Now, thanks to your donations, the continued support of Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust and St James’ Place Foundation our Hospice at Home team provides almost that much care every month.

It has been a year since we extended our Hospice at Home service to cover Gloucester and demand for our service continues to grow.

For more information on our Hospice at Home service turn to page 14.

Father and son Clive and Robbie Petch had a very personal reason for taking part in the Cotswold Care Hospice Men’s Walk.

Family support virtual beds


Following his death Jenny received counselling support from the hospice.

“I lost two husbands to cancer. With Rob we were fortunate enough to have Cotswold Care Hospice at Home nurses to support us,” said Jenny. “It made such a difference.”

To say thank you, Jenny teamed up with fellow Quedgeley WI ladies to

take part in the Cotswold Midnight Walk.

More than 250 women gathered at Deer Park School in Cirencester to enjoy a girls’ night out which included entertainment, the Midnight Walk and a glass of bubbly on their return.

Jenny walked with fellow WI members Lesley Callum, from Quedgeley,

Hilda Fleet, from Quedgeley, and Maggie Hendry from Hardwicke. Together they raised £546.

The event raised more than £20,000 in sponsorship – enough to help pay for 1,333 bereavement counselling sessions for families who have lost their loved ones or 88 nights of Hospice at Home care.

Dignity matters

Cotswold Care Hospice believes all patients and clients should be treated with dignity and respect.

We have recently carried out a survey to ensure that is the case. Of the 119 people who responded 100% said they were treated with dignity and respect.

The results also showed that 100% of those who responded felt that hospice staff were friendly, polite and approachable and 97% said hospice staff made time to listen to their concerns.

For a full copy of the report please contact us.

Jenny Hill knows first hand what a difference Cotswold Care Hospice makes.

Here come the girls

In the past six months 110 people have been referred to Cotswold Care Hospice’s counselling and bereavement

services. All our services are provided free of charge.

When her husband Rob was diagnosed with cancer, Hospice at Home nurses helped Jenny care for him at their home.


A team of men from GE Aviation in Bishop’s Cleeve support Cotswold Care Hospice by acting as volunteers at events.They have volunteered at Midnight Walks and at the Whole Hog. This year 11 men acted as marshals at the Cotswold Midnight Walk in Cirencester.

Mike Hall, from GE Aviation, said it all started two years ago when someone noticed an appeal for fundraising volunteers in the local press.

“I hope that for future events we continue to support these. The volunteer marshalling provides an enjoyable, novel way of helping out such a good cause,” he said.

For more information on volunteering see our website www.cotswoldcare.org.uk

A few hours… can make all the difference

Fancy meeting new people and having a great time? Then why not sign up as a fundraising volunteer for Cotswold Care Hospice.Every year the charity stages countless fundraising events - from walks to cycle rides to fetes and every one of them need a host of volunteers to make sure they go without a hitch.

Just a few hours of your time can make such a difference to the success of a fundraising event.

There’s a role to suit everyone whether it is working on the registration desk, being a walk marshal or helping with a collection.

Cotswold Care Hospice depends on more than 600 volunteers and their support every year. So far this year people have donated more than 7,090 hours of their time.

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Celebrate our 25th in style

Win £25,000Sign up to Cotswold Care Hospice’s lottery during the charity’s 25th anniversary year and you could win £25,000.

The hospice’s weekly Unity Lottery costs just £1 to play with the top prize of £25,000.

You can sign up at any of the hospice’s 14 charity shops.

“We need 700 new players to sign up to our lottery this year - that will help pay a year’s salary for a Hospice at Home nurse,” said Jules Eaton, Chief Executive Cotswold Care Hospice.

“While £1 a week may not seem much, together you can make a huge difference to those people we support and care for.”The Hospice at Home team look after people in their own homes and support their families. This year they will provide more than 19,000 hours of care.

Please make our silver Anniversary year special and sign up to our lottery. You will be helping us care for people in Gloucestershire and you may be in with a chance to win £25,000.

Why I play the lottery:“I signed up to the lottery because it is an excellent way to raise funds for a vital service. Of course it would be lovely to win the £25,000 jackpot. It costs me just £4.34 each month and that adds up to a great deal for the hospice.”

Linda�Short

It’s easy to sign up to our Unity Lottery:

Visit one of our shops to collect a form or visit

www.unitylottery.co.ukFor more information call our

hotline on 0870 050 9240

or email [email protected]


Author Katie Fforde says becoming a regular doner is one of the best things she has done.

The Stroud-based writer started supporting Cotswold Care Hospice 12 years ago.

“I was keen to support a good local cause,” she said. “Cotswold Care Hospice at Home nurses supported a friend when her husband became ill. The nurses made such a difference.”

The last time Katie visited the hospice was more than six years ago. Since that time the hospice has grown, helping far more people and moved into a new custom-built complex.

Regular givers played a vital role in Cotswold Care Hospice’s development. That regular support means we can plan and develop future services and have the ongoing income we need to support people.

Katie’s contribution, through regular giving, would have helped pay for 32 Art for Health therapy sessions or for one patient to attend a 12-week programme at our specialist day hospice.

“It’s great to see that my money has been used so wisely and creatively,”

said Katie. “There has been a huge difference here since I last visited. It’s nice to see that the hospice is increasing its services.

With a regular donation of £10 a month, you would help pay for six counselling sessions or four hours’ care by a Hospice at Home nurse.

“At best £10 a month is two bottles of wine. That’s not much really but is a great deal to a good cause like Cotswold Care Hospice,” said Katie. “I call it my insurance as I never know when I or my nearest and dearest may need the hospice’s wonderful care.”

When we say your monthly donations are changing lives, we mean it. That’s why we asked supporter Katie Fforde to visit the hospice and see for herself.

See the difference you make

“I was keen to support a good local cause”

“At best £10 a month is two bottles of wine”

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What’s on…

September 201217th - 28th SeptemberMake a will fortnightMake a will fortnight is taking place between 17 and 28 Sept which is a wonderful way to support the hospice.Nine solicitors are kindly donating their time to write a standard will in return for a donation to us.

23th SeptemberCotswold CrunchRegistration from 6.30amA cycle ride which starts and finishes at Cotswold Care Hospice in Minchinhampton. Choose between a 50-mile and a 100-mile route. Entry fee: £25

October 201213th OctoberRace the TrainCheltenham Racecourse12pm - Take on the steam train in this 14-mile challenge run up Cleeve Hill. You can run on your own or in a team of two. Entry fee: £22.50

20th OctoberCraft Fair10am-4pm Coaley Village Hall, Coaley, near DursleyOrganised by the Dursley and Cam Support Group.

November 20122nd NovemberFirewalkCotswold Care HospiceCan you do the unthinkable and walk on hot coals for us? Entry fee: £49.99 To find out more, call 01453 733701.

10th NovemberAutumn Gift Fair10am-3pmAmberley Parish Rooms Amberley, Stroud

23nd NovemberFashion showCalcot Manor, Near TetburyFashion show with raffle and tea. For time and price contact 01666 505656

December 20124th December Light Up a Life service7pm - Minchinhampton Parish ChurchRemember a loved one at Christmas with our service before a short Lantern Walk of Remembrance to the Cotswold Care Hospice.

9th December Light Up a Life service3pm - St Mary’s Church, Wotton-under-Edge

March 201317th March Whole Hog ChallengeSponsored by Western Power DistributionWoodchester Mansion, StroudAn exciting cross country run with obstacles, water - and mud. Enter as a team of three, £35 per person

23rd March Mens WalkKingsholm Stadium GloucesterThis is a great day out which includes a walk, pie and a pint and a great game of live rugby (Gloucester Vs London Welsh).Entry opens 1st October.

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