St Teresa’s Hospice provides specialist palliative care to people with life-limiting conditions such as cancer, lung disease and heart failure, as well as care and support for people with neurological conditions like Parkinson’s disease, MS and MND. We provide all our core services free of charge and supported over 1,100 people last year.
We aim to enhance quality of life, promote personal choice and enable people to live as well as possible until the end of their life. Through a wide range of services, we work with people to help manage pain, fatigue and other symptoms including psychological distress. We also offer practical and emotional support to our patients and those close to them including children and young people.
We are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. It costs over £10,000 a day to run all our services, with most of our funds (around 75%) coming from fundraising, legacy giving and our retail shops, which have all been adversely affected by the ongoing cost of living crisis.
The £5,000 awarded by the Benefact Group is a much-valued contribution towards our core service delivery and our staff, volunteers, Trustees and patients are incredibly grateful.
