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From Moonlight and

Memories to sunshine

and support!

This summer we were delighted with the response to our
alternative Moonlight and Memories Walk, as hundreds of our
amazing supporters clocked up the miles in their own time to
remember loved ones and raise funds for the hospice.

This annual event is our biggest anniversary – and we’re aiming to reach
fundraiser, and we were all so a target of 1,500 people signing up!
disappointed that we weren’t able to
come together in St Catherine’s Park We’re hoping to be able to bring
for this special occasion due to social everyone together again by hosting the
distancing restrictions. family-friendly night time walk on
Saturday 19th June, as well as inviting
But we were blown away by your people to take on a virtual version if
determination to pound the pavements they can’t join us in person on the night.
in your local areas and take on the
challenge in your own way! For more details and to register your
place, please visit www.stcatherines.
THANK YOU to each and every one co.uk or call 01772 629171.
of you who took part, collected
sponsorship, or donated to our special
Moonlight and Memories Walk this year. Next year’s Moonlight
and Memories Walk
We’re sorry we can’t include everyone’s is kindly sponsored
by Farrell and Heyworth
photos here but we are truly grateful for
everyone’s brilliant efforts.

We’re already busy planning the
Moonlight and Memories Walk 2021,
which will be the popular event’s 15th

Patient gives thanks to hospice’s truly

exceptional staff and volunteers

The mother-of-two was first referred to enjoy the fresh air, which means a lot.
St Catherine’s several years ago when
our Palliative Care Consultant Dr Claire “I wanted to come here; I knew I needed
Capewell saw her at an outpatient clinic that support to get my medication and pain
and helped get her pain under control. under control, and now the staff here are
helping to prepare me for going back home,
She spent a few comfortable years at home putting a care plan in place.”
in Lostock Hall, and when her health began
Kitchen Assistant Sarah Wilcox and deteriorating again this year, Dr Capewell The 59-year-old added: “I knew
IPU sister Barbara Sutton visited her and admitted her to our St Catherine’s was a wonderful charity,
inpatient unit. and I’ve been playing the lottery and
A retired nurse who has been staying on visiting The Mill café over the years, but
our inpatient unit says she is grateful the “I was very poorly by the time I came into staying on the inpatient unit has far
hospice could be there for her during the St Catherine’s, but I’m feeling a lot better outweighed my expectations. The staff
pandemic. and brighter now,” she says. “I can get and volunteers really are exceptional.
out of bed and sit in my chair in my room,
“I wasn’t nervous or afraid about coming to which I couldn’t do when I first arrived. And “I understand everyone is doing everything
St Catherine’s,” she said. “I wanted to come my husband can take me for a walk in the they can under the circumstances of Covid,
here because I felt it would be the best wheelchair around the beautiful grounds, or and I’m so grateful that they’ve been able
decision for me and my family.” we can sit on the veranda together and to help me.”
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