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Hospice says thanks to volunteers
To mark Volunteers’ Week 2021, we said a huge Thank You to all those who give up their time and work free of charge in our hospices, shops, and gardens. We have more than 1,000 volunteers in our organisation. At the start of the pandemic in March 2020, the large majority were asked to put...
Volunteer Ralph is proud of his role
There can’t be many people who are prouder to be a volunteer with Severn Hospice than 74-year-old Ralph Prince. Since December 1996, he has been a committed lottery collector. And for the past five years he has helped out at our charity shop in Wem, sorting books, DVDs, and CDs, working on the till and meeting customers. Ralph, who lives in Stanton-upon-Hine-Heath, is now back working as a volunteer in the shop after lockdown...
Head gardener is off for pastures new
A future of wildlife conservation and volunteer work beckons for our green-fingered head gardener. After almost seven years, Tony Comley has decided the time has come to hang up his secateurs and move on to pastures new. But he won’t be leaving us for good. Instead, he plans to be back as a regular volunteer. Tony joined the team back in 2014 and has made...
Dealership loans electric cars to hospice
A Shropshire car dealership has just loaned us two electric vehicles, which will be used to take our doctors and nurses out in to the community. Rybrook BMW in Shrewsbury handed over the keys to two BMW i3 vehicles last week and the cars will be used when our clinical staff visit people living with incurable...
Prayers are answered by tech-savvy chaplain
Our chaplain is not letting the pandemic stop him from providing spiritual support to our patients. Before the pandemic, people who were either on our wards at or using our Day Services, met on the third Tuesday of the month to worship in our sanctuary. But for almost a year they have been unable to do so, as many of them have been shielding and restrictions have been placed on those...