Sitting in the front row are volunteers Jane Hampden, Evelyn Weech , Dan Aspin - with Shop Manager Sam Williams
Organisation Award:
Children's Hospice South West
Dan Aspin, Jane Hampden, Evelyn Weech – Volunteers from the Children’s Hospice South West, Wellington store.
Assistant Manager of the Store, Sam Williams said: “I’m very, very proud of the team for achieving this award and being recognised in this way. Regardless of ability, everybody has something to offer and everybody has different skills and abilities and we all come together well as a team.”
Assistant Manager of the Store, Sam Williams said: “I’m very, very proud of the team for achieving this award and being recognised in this way. Regardless of ability, everybody has something to offer and everybody has different skills and abilities and we all come together well as a team.”
Children’s Hospice South West was founded in 1991 by Eddie and Jill Farwell after they experienced for themselves the urgent need for hospice care for children in the South West. Their two eldest children, Katie and Tom, had life-limiting illnesses and they had to travel over four hours, from their home in North Devon to Helen House in Oxford, then the country’s only children’s hospice.
In 1995 Little Bridge House, the South West’s first children’s hospice opened its doors to families from across the South West. Little Bridge House very quickly became oversubscribed, which led to the opening of the charity’s second hospice Charlton Farm located just outside Bristol, in 2007. Our Precious Lives Appeal to build our third hospice, in Cornwall, Little Harbour was launched in September 2007. The appeal ended in September 2011 as the £5million target was reached. Little Harbour welcomed our first families through the doors in December 2011. This will, by common consent, complete a chain of children’s hospices covering Cornwall, Plymouth, Torbay, Devon, Somerset, North Somerset, Bristol, Bath & North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire. |