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Would you like to make excellent use of your spare time and raise much needed funds for your local charity?
 With Paul Bevan House, our Day Support Centre being based in Ascot, we have supported many local families dealing with cancer and life limiting illnesses over many years. In order to maintain our services, Fundraising Groups are vital to us. Thames Hospicecare are looking to build a new Fundraising Group for Ascot. Currently, we have fundraising groups in 12 of the towns that we provide care in. They do a fantastic job organising various activities throughout the year that raise vital funds each year for the Hospice. In 2008 they brought in a massive £84,745.61. This is enough money for us to provide 5’650 hours of specialist care to our patients. Thames Hospicecare are only funded 25% from the Government, therefore we have to raise 75p in every £1 spent on providing local families with the specialist and gentle palliative care that they deserve. To give you an idea of what is involved and how you will feel, here is a story from one of our longest standing fundraising group members,: Anthea Webb.
“My mother died of cancer some years ago and in the last few days of her life, she went to a Hospice. When Thames Valley Hospice (now Thames Hospicecare) opened in 1987 I wanted to help and approached the local Support Group in Maidenhead who I found to be very friendly. Over the years they have held all sorts of events such as fairs, bridge drives, street collections, line dancing events, the list goes on. When I moved to Cookham Dean, a village where I knew no-one, I joined the Cookhams Group and was warmly welcomed by the committee. The Group arrange some excellent events, including this year a charity dinner, with Theresa May the MP for Maidenhead as our guest speaker which raised £2,000, a flower arranging lunch, a fashion presentation and a talk on silver by someone from the Bonhams, the auction house. Cookham Dean has many lovely gardens and we regularly have Open Gardens where the teas are always popular. Every surface of the Village Hall is covered with cakes baked by supporters and they are all eaten! The Thames Hospicecare Supporters Groups are most welcoming and play a very important part in raising funds for Thames Hospicecare. The publicity their activities generate raises the profile of the Hospice, both through the press and interest in the communities which the Hospice serves. If anyone is interested in joining a support group or starting one, I recommend you contacting the Fundraising Team at THc and I can guarantee you will have lots of fun and feel a huge sense of achievement whilst raising funds for such a local, worthwhile cause.” We would like to invite you to attend an informal meeting about it, to hear about the important care we provide, how we fundraise and what being part of a fundraising group means. If you are interested in attending and being part of this exciting new group, please call Claire Sugg on 01753 848927.
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