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City Hospice is Cardiff's local hospice, and we care for people who have been diagnosed with terminal cancer or another incurable illness. We help them to stay at home pain and symptom free, and support them and their families so that they live life to the full and make the most of every day they have with their families. By buying a City Hospice lottery ticket, you can help make sure we are there for local people, when they need us, for as long as they need us, today and every day.

‘City Hospice was a light in that terrifying darkness, giving us hope that her last days could be full of laughter as well as tears. We were enveloped in love and care by people who asked for nothing but the chance to comfort and support all of us through her final days, her passing and beyond'. (Nick, 49)

Our patients and their families need all the care and support available to help them through the most incredibly difficult and testing of times. Thank you for helping to ensure that our doctors, specialist nurses, therapists and counsellors will be there for the 2 new patients referred to us every day.

East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) cares for children and young people with life-threatening conditions and their families, across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. Our family-centred approach includes specialist nursing care, symptom management nursing, short breaks, wellbeing activities, therapies, counselling and volunteer services in the family home; all meeting the individual needs of the child, young person and whole family.

We offer families flexibility and control over where they receive their care and support, including where their child dies; at home, in hospital or at one of three hospices at Milton (Cambridge), The Nook (Norwich) and The Treehouse (Ipswich). More than half of our care and support is delivered in the family home and community, in surroundings familiar and comfortable for the family.

Our hospices aren’t just about end of life care; they’re often very happy and fun places, where young people can live life to their full potential. They are places where families feel safe, at home and where they can spend quality time together; enabling parents to be parents not caregivers. When time is short, we help families make the most of their precious time together and create memories that last forever.

HospiceCare is the local Hospice at Home charity for North Northumberland serving a population of over 65,000. We deliver practical and emotional care and support to adults living with a terminal illness requiring palliative input and end-of-life care. We also offer support to their families and carers.

The care is delivered in the home by our specially trained Nursing team and Hospice Support Workers. Access to our Hospice at Home service is via any healthcare professional e.g. GP, District Nurse, Macmillan Nurse, or Community Matron. HospiceCare also provides Bereavement and Dementia Support services which are accessed via self-referral. There is no charge at the point of delivery for our services which will cost the Hospice around £1.4m this year. We receive an annual contribution from the NHS of around 5%, with additional funding to support people who are discharged from Hospital via Fast Tracked services. The rest we have to raise from fundraising, community donations, trusts and foundations, legacies and our charity shops.

From January 2023 – March 2024 our Hospice at Home Service:

• Delivered over 5,772 hours of end-of-life and respite care in the home (Direct care: 4,420 Indirect care: 1,302)
• Travelled over 53,600 miles to reach families in some of the most rural parts of our communities.
• Referrals came from local GP’s, District Nurses, Social Services and local Macmillan services.
• Taken 124 referrals
• We currently have 5 Contracted Staff: 1 x RGN, 1 Hospice Support Worker, 1 x Dementia Care Coordinator and 1x Family Support Coordinator.
• We have 17 Bank Staff on zero-hours: 5 x RGN’s and 12 Hospice Support Workers.
• It costs around £55ph hour to deliver our Hospice at Home services

The Macmillan Unit at Christchurch Hospital is a Specialist Palliative Care Unit and Hospice for patients in South East Dorset and South West Hampshire. The charity, Macmillan Caring Locally, works in partnership with University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust to provide the services at the Macmillan Unit and in our community. The unit is supported and funded by Macmillan Caring Locally providing an exceptional standard of care and a homely environment for patients, their families and visitors. The charity also provides nursing and medical equipment to improve patient treatment and comfort.

The charity funds the Family Support Team, Rehabilitation Team, the Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurses, the Hospice at Home Team, the virtual Day Centre and a number of senior medical staff roles at the Hospice. It also funds a team of Clinical Nurse Specialists permanently based at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust.

Macmillan Caring Locally is a small, community charity and is not connected in any way to the national charity Macmillan Cancer Support.

The Paul Sartori Foundation is Pembrokeshire's only Hospice at Home service. It provides hands-on care, equipment loan, counselling, complementary therapy, physiotherapy, symptom control advice, training and assistance with advance care planning. The majority of our patients meet their wish to die in the comfort of their own home, with the dignity they deserve, pain-free and surrounded by those they hold most dear.

Our lottery supports both St. Gemma's Hospice and Sue Ryder Wheatfields Hospice, and gives our players the chance to win cash prizes every week. By playing, you'll be supporting our hospice care whilst being in with a chance to win up to £25,000!

The money raised through our lottery is vital to us in providing our services. The draw takes place every Saturday and costs just £1 per week – by playing regularly you can help us keep our hospices running – thank you!

St John's Hospice provides free care and support to people living with life-limiting illnesses and long-term conditions in the community of Central and North West London. Our reach extends to more than 3,000 patients and their families each year. Our patients face a range of conditions including cancer, heart disease, respiratory conditions, HIV and neurological conditions such as MS and Motor Neurone Disease. Our services include:

• 19 bed Inpatient Unit
• Day Services
• A Community Team of Nurse Specialists
• Hospice@Home
• Lymphoedema Service
• Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy
• Social Work and Bereavement Support

Through our wide range of services both on-site and in the community, our aim is to help patients maintain their independence for as long as possible.

It costs over £5million every year to keep our doors open, of which £1.7million must be fundraised. We rely heavily on voluntary donations to be able to offer our services to all those in need.

By joining our Lottery, you will help our patients and their families not only now, but also in the future. Your memberships will add up to provide a regular source of income that we can count on, enabling us to plan our future care with a little more confidence. Plus, you might just win £25,000!

We would be so grateful if you would consider playing our Lottery.

Based in Boston, Lincolnshire, the role of The Butterfly Hospice is to provide palliative care and holistic support to patients and their families, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Providing for those who are aged 18+ and referred by a healthcare professional, our patients come to us for respite, symptom control and for care at the end of life.

Set in beautifully landscaped grounds, the hospice offers a place of tranquillity to those in need of respite, symptom control or end of life care, whilst providing full support to families including bereavement support and therapy.

The Butterfly Hospice Trust Therapy service offers professional 1-to-1 support and explores the challenges in dealing with a life-limiting condition or bereavement. Our therapy services are free to use, thanks to the generosity of our donors and supporters,

By signing up to our lottery, you are supporting the Butterfly Hospice and enabling us to continue offering free 24-hour patient care for those who need it most.
When you or someone you care about is seriously ill, you want to know they’re getting the best possible care and treatment. We do too.
It is because you care that we can.

We can help from the moment of diagnosis through to a patient's recovery or the end of their life and when appropriate our support can extend to the whole family including bereavement care.

'This is a really special place. This is the only place I have been able to share my cancer experience' John.

Our care is personalised to the needs of individual patients and their families. We enable people to receive high quality care while continuing to live in the comfort of their own home and their local community.

Tynedale Hospice at Home was founded in 1993 and today is proud to provide nursing care, transport, and pre and post bereavement support to the community of Tynedale, Ponteland and West Northumberland. Unlike many hospices, our palliative nursing care is provided in the patient's home where the patient and their family can be surrounded by familiar comforts and can be cared for in a place of their choosing.

Our hospital transport service offers a door-to-door service to and from vital hospital appointments for anyone with a life-limiting diagnosis. This service is an essential lifeline to many in our community - especially as we cover over 800 square miles, much of which is rural.

Adults, children and families who are facing or grieving the death of a loved one can access our family support service which is available to anyone in the community, regardless of whether they have had experience of another of the Hospice services. Our trained team of staff and volunteers provide one to one, group and family support.

Willow Burn Hospice is an oasis, right in the heart of the countryside; a small, hospice and community hub, which was founded over thirty years ago by two local women who recognised a need for improved end of life care for residents of Derwentside, County Durham.

At Willow Burn our aim is to relieve pain and suffering for individuals with terminal or life-limiting illness, and their families and carers through the provision of free palliative care. To achieve this, we offer pain and symptom control, end of life care, crisis respite care, day services, complementary therapies and services to support families and carers.

At a time when peace and tranquillity is needed the most, Willow Burn Hospice provides a safe and quiet haven. The focus is on the individual and their needs through the provision of high-quality community-based care.

"Only a poet could write the words to properly describe how utterly grateful myself and my family are for the help, care, respect and love you showed my mum. All I can say is thank you, thank you, thank you."

There is no denying that hospices are places where people come at the end of their lives. But we do so much more than that... Our hospice is also a much-loved community hub where people meet in our café and gardens for friendship and support at a time when they need it the most.