ST ROCCO'S HOSPICE

The Grant will be used to recruit a part time therapy assistant to run weekly coffee mornings under the supervision of the therapy team. They will deliver home-based holistic therapy to isolated carers that are unable to travel to the hospice.

We wish to expand our volunteer befriending service so more people in our community can access support. Following the pandemic, we have seen an increase in demand due to loneliness and isolation.

Unrestricted funding for hospices

St Rocco's Hospice provides care and support for people diagnosed with a life-limiting illness and their families. Their project - At A Loss - will provide bereavement counselling and support through telephone calls. The grant funding will provide ....more

St Rocco's Hospice provides care and support for people diagnosed with a life-limiting illness and their families. Their project - At A Loss - will provide bereavement counselling and support through telephone calls. The grant funding will provide 580 hours of bereavement support to older people of Warrington who are coping with the loss of a loved one. This project will mean that 580 potentially lonely and isolated people, who may have had nowhere to turn to at a devastating time in their live, will be supported, cared for and advised by a trained and experienced counsellor.

IT equipment upgrade. Grant converted to unrestricted funding in June 2020 in response to Covid-19 pandemic.

The funding will be used to purchase laptops and mobile phones to enable hospice volunteers and staff who continue to deliver daily care in the community to high risk individuals during Covid-19 lock down to record patient notes remotely.

St Rocco's Hospice provides care and support to the people of Warrington who have been diagnosed with a life-limiting illness. Our Covid-19 Emergency Response project is working to ensure that we have capacity to admit additional patients, who ....more

St Rocco's Hospice provides care and support to the people of Warrington who have been diagnosed with a life-limiting illness. Our Covid-19 Emergency Response project is working to ensure that we have capacity to admit additional patients, who require complex end-of-life care due to Covid-19 diagnosis. This funding will be used to purchase two vital syringe drivers. This will mean that we can help reduce symptoms by delivering a steady flow of injected medication continuously to the patients who are poorly and in a lot of pain; this will hopefully provide a small degree of comfort to loved ones at such a difficult time.

Help us with the costs of organising our biggest fundraiser for the next two years which will generate significant funds for patient care.

St. Rocco's Hospice offers individualised care and support to Warrington patients living with a diagnosis of a life-limiting condition, whilst also offering support to their family, friends and carers. The RocOn project is a fully piloted St Rocco's ....more

St. Rocco's Hospice offers individualised care and support to Warrington patients living with a diagnosis of a life-limiting condition, whilst also offering support to their family, friends and carers. The RocOn project is a fully piloted St Rocco's Hospice project, which brings young people in class sized groups from schools across Warrington into the hospice to work alongside patients and carers in art, craft and other therapeutic activities- breaking down barriers to the 'taboos' surrounding death and dying - and promoting a healthier understanding of end of life care amongst the young, whilst supporting hospice patients with the emotional impact of living with a terminal illness. Grant funding will pay for 12 months of this project in sessional based delivery, covering the cost of the Project Leader, the induction, training and DBS clearance of the volunteers who work with the Project Leader, the uniforms and badges of the volunteers, the art and craft materials and the promotion and marketing materials produced to promote the project, plus the cost of photocopying and paper used in producing the post-project evaluation forms and feedback.