Zoë's Place Baby Hospice - Smile Magazine

www.zoes-place.org.uk

Tel: 0151 228 0353

Spring 2012

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Zoë’s Place has been in operation in Liverpool for the last 16 years. During thistime, the work of the Hospice has really captured the heart of the community andthe respite and palliative care at Zoë’s Place has proven to be vital to so many ofthe families who have benefited from our service.

• ‘Without the rest and recuperation from Zoë’s Place and all the staff thatwork and volunteer there we wouldn't be able to look after Olivia throughexhaustion alone’

• ‘Zoë’s Place offers my family a rest, the chance to go to the supermarketor shops, and even have the "odd night out"!‘

• ‘Without Zoë’s Place we would be completely lost’

The above-mentioned quotes are just some of the things our families sayabout Zoë’s Place Baby Hospice! However we would not exist if it wasn’t forall our wonderful supporters who work tirelessly to keep the doors of ourhospice open! Inside our newsletter you will see just a small flavour of thesupport we have received over the last 6 months. We try to fit in as manyacknowledgements as we can within the limited space. However check outour website www.zoes-place.org/liverpool which is constantly updated withnews and events. You can also follow us on facebook and twitter.

18 – 25th May is Children’s Hospice Week, which culminates withSuperhero Friday - a special hero inspired day of fundraising. Children'sHospice Week takes place every May and is the UK's only awareness andfundraising week for children's hospice services. Children's hospices upand down the country celebrate the week with a host of events andactivities. Children's Hospice Week is a fantastic opportunity to joinhundreds of others in raising funds for your local children's hospice.Check out our website for more information.

Thank you all for your overwhelming support. Without your generouscontributions, we simply would not be able to provide our valuable care.

Carol Kirkham, Fundraising Manager

Dear Supporter

Zoë’s Place would like to thank our local community and the business community for their overwhelming support.Without your generous contributions, we simply would not be able to provide our valuable care.

Registered charity number: 1092545

Donations are always extremely gratefullyreceived at Zoë’s Place. If you would like tocontribute to our improvement work, pleasecomplete the form below.

You may also donate on our website:www.zoes-place.org.ukor over the telephone by calling theHospice on 0151 228 0353

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CorporateMESSAGE FROM FLO, HEAD OF CAREThe New Zoë’s Place has now been open for 5 months and we are taking fulladvantage of our great new facilities. Our babies and families are now able tobenefit from all the extra space and equipment that we have. The dining/kitchenroom provides a welcoming entrance to our visitors and we have enjoyed bakingwith the children and hope the families have enjoyed the treats too!

Our sensory and play garden is hopefully going to be completed for late spring.This area has been designed and developed to enhance and provideoutside sensory play and relaxation.

Why set up a regulardonation?A direct debit is the most efficient way todonate to Zoë’s Place. Direct debits allowour Hospice to plan ahead, ensuring we havea reliable source of income for key projectsand expenditure.

What could your regulargift buy?• £3 per month helps to fund items whichare intended to enhance our specialbabies play and stimulation.

• £5 per month helps cover the cost of NHSsupplies such as latex gloves, hand gel,baby wipes, syringes.

• £10 per month pays for 1 x Oxygen Cylinder.• £20 per month pays for a child to have 1hour in the hydrotherapy pool.

Please help us raise the £1,200,000 a year itcosts to keep the doors of Zoë's Place BabyHospice open for the families that rely onour vital care and support.

Friday 18th May 2012Ladies Lunch at the Liverpool Marina

Sunday 24th June 2012Zoë's Place Summer Fair

Friday 6th July 201210th Annual Golf Day at FormbyHall Resort Golf Club

Saturday 11th August 2012Charity Abseil- Liverpool Cathedral

Sunday 14th October 2012Mersey Marathon

Regular Car Boot SalesFor more info please visit our websitewww.zoes-place.org.uk/liverpool

Flo - Head of Care

Margaret Knight

Our children spent awonderful daywithMar

garetwho has an exceptional

talent for playing the harp. Hermusicwas th

oroughly enjoyed by all of our

children (and staffmembers aswell!!) and o

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opportunity to have ago at playing the instr

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William playing theharp.

Louise WilcockMyname is Louise and I haveworked at Zoë’s Place as a SeniorHealth Care

Assistant for 16 years. I qualified as aNurseryNurse in 1997 and I have

previouslyworked in primary/secondary schools supporting childrenwith

specialist needs as a Teaching Assistant also. In 2004 I completed a honours

degree in education and history. At Zoë’s I have an additional role as Parent

Support Co-ordinator and I organise events and social activities for

parents/carerswhich are both fun and informative e.g pamper sessions,

christmas shopping trip to York, information days and the annual family Christmas party.I promote

the importance of education and knowledge andmy role involves ensuring that there area variety

of resources and information available for both parents and staff to access. I enjoyworkingwith the

babies and their families at Zoë’s Place immensely and each day is a rewarding experience.

Louise Wilcock

Ashalina painting Our wonderful soft play area

Callum enjoying a swing

Locking Stumps Primary SchoolThe school council at Locking Stumps Primary chose Zoë’s Place Baby Hospiceas their charity of the year and have been involved in all sorts of fundraisingactivities to generate funds for our Hospice. These have included sellingmerchandise over the Christmas period and a river of coins that they created.

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Quality Solicitors Jackson and CanterOur friends at Jackson & Canter have been fantastic supporters of oursand have helped us to generate much needed funds through Make a Willcampaigns. As we look to roll out a legacy giving campaign, we askedNaomi Pinder(Head of Department for Wills & Probate at Jackson &Canter) to explain why it is so important to make a will. ‘It is very importantto make a will to protect your loved ones and ensure that your wishes arecarried out. You give named persons authority to act after you have died -to arrange your funeral, deal with your money and property. You name whoyou wish to benefit - family members and charity (hopefully Zoë’s Place).For more information please contact J&C on 0151 282 1700

Baxter HealthcareStaff from Baxter Healthcare have raised a huge amount of fundingfrom the sales of wooden pallets, all of which they have donated toour Hospice. Since 2010 this has totalled a staggering £24,400 whichhas and continues to make a huge difference to our Hospice.

A Thank You from our Premises TeamJane & Paul from our Premises Team would like to say a huge thank you to all of the following for making ourwonderful refurbishment possible: LHT, Horizon Windows, J.C Construction, Connolly Brothers, Stan Morris, JimEaten, Phil Crosby DCI, C.P Hood, A.W Byrne, volunteers from Royal Sun Alliance and AMEC, and special thanksto Steve Givin and Laing O’ Rourke for their work on creating our Sensory Garden.

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Cammell Laird ShipbuildersBig hearted workers at Cammell Laird have once again helped to raise a hugeamount for Zoë's Place and Claire House Children’s Hospice.

In total the workforce managed to collect £5,600 for Zoë’s Place which wasthen matched by the shipyards management. The idea was first thought up bya group of shipwrights who organized fundraising between the rest of theworkforce, subcontractors and clients. Through challenging themselves toraise as much as they could they have really achieved a terrific target and weare very grateful for the support they continue to offer to us.

We would like to thank all our lovely friends who haveorganised so many fundraising events in their localcommunity over the last few months. Below are just ahandful of the wonderful events that you have beenorganising. Your support means so much to us and wesend a huge thank you to you all.

JermainesJermaines in Garston have been long term supporters of Zoë's Place havingraised hundreds of pounds for us from various fundraising activities they haveorganised themselves and with their friends from Kathys of Garston just downthe road on Mercer Street.

Carpet Traders Golf SocietyMembers of the society visited Zoë's Place Baby Hospice with afantastic cheque for £3,722 from fundraising activities (including theodd golf day of course) run over the past year. Thank you very much!

Jane & Paul The new refurbishment

Phoenix CraftersWe would like to say a huge thank you to the Crafters who have made 50fantastic snuggle blankets for each of our children. Each blanket that hasbeen made is different and incredibly detailed and will make a wonderfulgift to the children we care for.

George's Line DancersOver the past year, a number of fantastic line dancing clubs in theMaghull area, all brilliantly tutored by George Earley fundraised a totalof £500 for Zoë's Place Baby Hospice.

Arriva cheque presentation

Arriva North WestSince 2007, the proceeds from Arriva’s annual charity golf day held atFormby Hall, including a fundraising raffle and auction, have beendonated to Zoë’s Place. The charity golf day has become a regular eventin the calendar, and an occasion which all participants eagerly anticipate.Once again Arriva have raised a phenomenal £20,000 for our Hospice andwe would like to thank them very much for their ongoing support.

Locking Stumps Primary

Phoenix Crafters

Golf Carpet Traders Association

Georges Line Dancers

Cammell Laird

To find out more about our community supporters please visithttp://zoes-place.org.uk/liverpool/index.php/community-fundraising 'To find out more about our corporate supporters please visit

http://zoes-place.org.uk/liverpool/index.php/corporate-support

GMB UnionWe would like to thank the GMB North West & Ireland members for their fantasticdonation of £3,500 which is one of many donations that the Union has made to support ourHospice over the years. This brings the total they have raised for us to over £10,000!

Nao Pinder

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National Express /Liverpool John Lennon AirportA new coach service improving links between Liverpool John Lennon Airport andManchester, Bradford, Leeds, Liverpool and Birkenhead was launched on the 5thDecember in time for the Christmas holidays and was officially named in honourof Zoë's Place Baby Hospice as Liverpool John Lennon Airport’s official charity.

Craig Richmond, CEO Peel Airports Limited said, “We welcome this investmentmade by National Express to further improve our public transport links. We’revery proud to support Zoë's Place, our Official charity, and the coach naming willhelp to spread the message about the incredible work they do.”

Lord DerbyLord Derby has completed a monumental 361km cycling challenge acrossthe red sands of Jordan and has raised a staggering £ 35,000 for Zoë’s Placeand Willowbrook Hospice. The 5 day cycle ride commenced on the 20thNovember in Jerash and followed a route through the stunningly beautifuldesert of Wadi Araba and the coast of the Dead Sea before ending amongstthe ornate remains of the ancient city of Petra. The route was extremelychallenging and demanded a high level of fitness but was undertaken to helpZoë’s Place and Willowbrook. Lord Derby said ‘This amazing cycle challengepresents me with the opportunity to raise much needed funds for two localNorth West charities, Willowbrook Hospice of which I am a Patron and Zoe’sPlace Baby Hospice of which my wife is a Patron. Both of these wonderfulcharities are very close to the hearts of my family.”

Lord Derby

Steven Gerrard cheque presentation

National Express Coach

Steven GerrardWe were honoured to welcome Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard to Zoë's Placeas he launches his very own charitable foundation

Steven Gerrard has launched his own charity - The 'Steven GerrardFoundation' (SGF) which aims to generate as much money as possible toprovide additional funding for a range of children's charitable organisationsand will help provide relief to children and young people in need, whetherthrough illness, family breakdown, disability, involvement in the streets,financial or educational disadvantage.

We were delighted to welcome Steven to Zoë's Place to see firsthand the carethat we provide to our special babies. He also brought with him a very specialgift of £5,000 to support our work. We would like to thank Steven and theFoundation very much for the support he has given our Hospice.

MuchLovedWe first introduced MuchLoved in the last edition of SMILE but we wanted tohighlight this particular site once again which we think is absolutely fantastic.By visiting MuchLoved online, you can create a unique, beautiful and lastingtribute page in memory of a loved one. It is completely free to set up andthrough the page you can add music, photographs and film as well as differentthemes and designs for your page to create a fantastic page that can viewed byfamily, friends or whoever you wish. You can also ask visitors to make a safe,secure donation to Zoë’s Place through the site and if you raise over £500 forus we will give you 5 Zoë’s Place Fuchsia plants (see opposite). Please visithttp://zoesliverpool.muchloved.org to set up your page or if you would like usto help you set up a page, please contact John on 0151 228 0353 or [email protected]

The Zoes Place Fuchsia

Fuchsia order formThe Zoë’s Place Fuchsia will be a classic, easyto grow early flowering plant has a naturalspreading habit making it ideal for basket orcontainer work and can be mixed with otherplants in baskets or grown on its own.

The plants will be available for dispatch frommid to late April and will come in batches of 5,ideal for a 14 inch basket for the great price of£7.20 including postage and packaging.

To pre-order please complete the form belowand return with payment to:

David Wilde, Zoë’s Place Baby Hospice,Life Health Centre, Yew Tree Lane, WestDerby, Liverpool L12 9HH.

Name:

Address:

Postcode:

Tel No.

Email Address:

I would like to order pack(s) of 5 fuchsia plants priced at £7.20 per packwhich includes postage and packaging. Enclosed is payment of this amount(cheques made payable to Zoë’s Place Baby Hospice) and I understand that theFuschsia will be sent to the above address in April 2012.

For more information please contact David Wilde on 0151 228 0353or by email [email protected]

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Tel: 0151 228 0353www.zoes-place.org.uk

Email: [email protected]

Run by Zoë’s Place TrustRegistered Charity No 1092545

We would like to thank everyone whohas given their support and

sponsorship for this issue of Smile!

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Useful Contacts: Carol Kirkham, Fundraising Manger. E: [email protected] Bergquist, Head of Care. E: [email protected]

Textile Recycling It’s estimated that more than 1 million tonnes of textiles are thrown away each year! Currently we onlyrecycle 25% of textiles. Textiles account for 3% of household waste.

BCR can re-use and recycle almost any type of wearable textile, including t-shirts, shoes, belts etc. Textiles unsuitable for re-use are recycled. Cottons and linen are cut down to be re-used as industrial wipes.Materials such as wool are ‘pulled’ and made into fresh yarn, or re-used as felt for stuffing upholstery.

We would like to encourage our supporters to put wearable clothes, shoes and other textiles into plastic bags and take them to a Zoë’s Place branded textile bank. Zoë’s Place Baby Hospice receives £200 per tonne of weighed in items. Please visit our website at www.zoes-place.org.uk/liverpool to see where your nearesttextile bank is located.

BAGS FOR LIFE £1.50 plus P+P KEYRINGS = £1.00 plus P+P CHARM BRACELET = £5 plus P+PMUGS = £1 plus P+P

PINBADGES £1 EACH plus P+P

PINBADGES = £1.00 plus P+P Pens = £1.00 plus P+P

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