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Jam Jars

Can you help? Audrey, our lovely jam making lady has run out of useful jam jars and would be very grateful if you had any to spare. She would prefer them to be 'Clean, lidded and 10 fluid ounce jars'. She would also welcome anyone who would like to help with jam making to keep up with demand. If you can help with the jars bring them into the Hospice in Alnwick and if you can help with the jam let us have your name so we can put you in touch with Audrey.


Tip to Toe Cycle Ride 2nd June 2013

30 cyclists from Breeze Bikes Cycling Club in Amble cycled between each of Northumberland's 12 Household Waste Recycling Centres in just 12 hours. Starting at Berwick at 8.00am they had a 160 mile ride to Haltwhistle via Wooler, North Sunderland, Alnwick, Morpeth, North Seaton, Bebside, Kirkley Thorn, Prudhoe, Hexham and Allandale. Thank you and well done.

You can still support the riders by going to BtMyDonate by following this link, click here.





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Can you put up a poster for us?

We are looking for anyone who might be able to 'post a poster' for us to help advertise the Hospice more widely. The posters are A4 colour and would display to advantage in your local shop, pub, community centre, church hall, garage - in fact one would be a decided asset to any display area (do ask permission first!).

If you think you could help, get in touch either by phone 01665 606515, or pop in and see us in Alnwick and pick one up.


Things to look forward to

July 23rd 10 year Anniversary Celebration
August 10th St Cuthbert's Way Challenge Walk
September Great North Run
September 15th Fly Fishing with Lucy Bowden
Check out the following events: Open Gardens - Shawdon Hall and LilburnTower in July, Tea and Talk events in September and November.


Northumberland Music Festival Nov 2013

Come along to the 3rd Northumberland Music Festival, taking place at three different venues there is always an eclectic mix of music at the lunchtime and evening concerts.
November 8th - 10th Eschott Hall
November 15th - 17th Doxford Hall
November 22nd - 24th Guyzance Hall

Last year the Festival supported three local charities, of which we were one, raising £800 for each of us.

Look out for more information.


Are You a Smarty Pants

Here’s the Challenge: Share a tube of Smarties with your family and friends, and then fill the empty tube with 20p pieces – a full Smartie tube will hold £13 of 20p coins. The challenge is open to everyone and all tubes received by Monday 10th December 2013 will be entered into a prize draw for a £5.00 book token.
This Challenge is open to anyone, take as long as you like to fill the empty tube, and drop it off at one of our two Day Therapy Centres.
If you are a school, please call us now for a fundraising pack.

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Charity CD

Craig Clash one of our supporters had just released a CD entitled 'Joe my Guitar Hero' (Classic Covers of FanClashtic Songs by the Clash) Price £10 proceeds to HospiceCare. To buy a copy email Craig at craigclash1984@hotmail.co.uk


MASSIVE THANK YOU

THANK YOU. Thank you for attending our events and supporting HospiceCare we hope you have had as an enjoyable time as we have. Take a look at what we have coming up for the summer, indoors as well as outdoors we hope you can join us again.
We would like to pass a MASSIVE THANK YOU on to all our volunteers who have helped make these successful. Even the smallest job you do to assist the fundraising team makes a big difference!!



The Snows of Kilimanjaro

The trek was certainly an adventure and more gruelling than I had imagined. Each day brought about different dramatic scenery and specific challenges. I would say that the
hardest aspect was the altitude. From the first day we were out of breath with each step, passing through the cloud line. On day two, we were making slow progress.
The main problem I experienced was feeling very sick each morning for a couple of hours, up until the last day at 5000m, when I started to get strong headaches.
Despite this the final day, was, of course, one to remember. Starting at midnight, 1500m below the summit, in the pitch darkness, very thin air and approximately minus 30 degrees ! The sun came up at around 7.00am when we reached the false summit called Senna Point. This was one of the greatest moments knowing that with one more ridge we would be there - Uhuru peak ! Clear views all round, and they were
extraordinary ! We reached the summit around 9.00am stopping for
photos before a quick descent to base camp, and then a two day trek out of the park.

Many thanks to everyone who supported me on my trek.

Hopefully I should have made around £1500 for the Hospice, whose work in my community is invaluable, operating almost entirely from charitable donations - like this. (p.s. I funded the trek up the
mountain and so all the money raised goes to the charity )

Ben McMorrow

Thank you Ben sounds amazing!!


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