Severn Hospice
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Providing specialist care and emotional support for families living with an incurable illness since 1989.
Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Mid Wales
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We enjoyed creating this
@peterkay_co_uk
and hope you enjoy watching it
#BigNightInAmarillo
#TheBigNightIn
@comicrelief
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Fancy a 6-bedroom farmhouse?
When Nigel and Jane heard of support us from your sofa, they decided to raffle off their furnished home in North Shropshire and give us 10% of the ticket sales.
The raffle opened today and tickets cost £2 each. Go to to enter.
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Fellow fundraisers Matt Baker and his
#RickshawChallenge
team passing us this morning, helping local causes and communities. Good to see you and thanks for the wave. Best of luck on the rest of your journey for
@BBCCiN
!
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And here it is! The Guinness World Record attempt of over 1,000 amazing people dancing in the rain for us!
@revelindance
and the
#Shropshire
community, we couldn’t do our work without people like you supporting us ❤️
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He's only gone and done it! After an incredible 70 hours of cycle time with an average speed of 20 kph, the Mayor of
@GreatDawley
, Councillor
@IanPreece_
finished his epic challenge from Land's End to John o' Groats yesterday! 🚴🏾♂️
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This evening the AMAZING
@LetsGoQuackers
art trail team handed over a quacking £18,083.50 donation to us at
@TelfordTheatre
🐥Their fundraising efforts have been remarkable and we can’t thank everyone involved with the campaign enough for their support!
#charity
#shropshire
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The Lions of Lycra together cycled hundreds of miles last weekend and raised more than £46,500 for us to thank us for the care we gave their friend Huw. Watch this video by Painted Life to find out more. Thanks to everyone for their fantastic support.
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Wow! Just wow! All ten big ducks in the
@LetsGoQuackers
auction have gone for £1,100-plus each time. A. Maze. Ing! Thank you so much for your support. It means so much. 💕💕💕💕
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Celebrating 10 years of care at our
#Telford
hospice thanks to the ongoing support of the people of
#Shropshire
#ThankYouThursday
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What a superstar Alice is – she had 16” of her gorgeous long hair chopped off and raised a fabulous £850 for us. We had cared for Alice’s friend Nicky and she wanted to raise money so we can continue to provide the same care. Thank you so much Alice.
#charitytuesday
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Players from more than 30 sports teams and clubs went the extra mile for us and raised £15,000 in a week-long challenge.
The Megametre was organised by
@shrewsburycc
and Haughmond FC.
The target had been to raise £10,000 and run a total of 1,000km.
Amazing.
#thankyouthursday
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❤️ This is our last post for
#HospiceCareWeek
, thanks for reading and sharing our updates, we hope you've found them informative.
We would like to thank everyone who helps us provide care when families need it most - every week not just this one!
#WhatItTakes
@hospiceuk
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We have some very exciting news to share with you all... 🎲🎩🚂❓💡
We're thrilled to have been voted by you guys to feature on the first ever
#Shrewsbury
Monopoly board!
A big
#ThankYouThursday
to each and every one of you who nominated us, we can't wait for release date! 😆
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Fundraisers smashed the ball out of the park and raised an amazing £10,070 for us.
#Relay50
was organised by
@BridgnorthCC
and saw people running, riding and swimming in hour long shifts.
Matt and Sam met with area fundraiser Hannah to hand over the cheque. Thank you so much!!!
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What a fantastic start to the day – our care has been declared as 'outstanding' by quality inspectors and it’s in the paper! A huge thanks to all who make us who we are, from volunteers to staff and to everyone who supports us to do the work that we do ❤️
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This team of
@WMerciaPolice
officers are running the Market Drayton 10k kitted out in full riot gear👮♂️👮♀️
They've so far raised £10,351 after choosing to support us in tribute to close friend and former colleague Lisa, who passed away in March.
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.
@LardyUK
from
@WMerciaPolice
visited us to hand over a cheque for more than £14,000 after his team took on the Market Drayton 10k in full police riot gear!🚨🚔👮♂️
Wishing a huge
#ThankYouThursday
to all of the runners and everyone who donated!
#hospiceheroes
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Today is International Nurses’ Day and we want you to know that our nurses are just awesome❤️
We appreciate them each and every day.
On the wards and with Hospice at Home and our Outreach services, their dedication is without question.
They are simply the best. Thank you🙏
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We're still here for you and for your families. Our services and our wards are still open. We can't stop caring ❤
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Pets are loved ones too. At our hospice pets are welcome to visit their owners if they are staying with us. Sometime it's the little things that make a big difference
#NationalPetDay
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We are here for you!💚 Our wards are open and community nursing is carrying on as usual. Our outreach teams will be in touch by phone if they’re not visiting – ring them if you need anything. We won't stop caring.👩⚕️🧑⚕️
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We're so proud of those taking part in the
#megametre
. It’s the final push today. Over seven days cricketers and footballers from across Shropshire will have run 1000km.
Keep going, the end is in sight. You can still donate at
@shrewsburycc
@HaughmondFC
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We won TWO of the prizes in the
@ShrewsFlowerShw
window dressing competition: First and second for Wyle Cop and Mardol. Whoop, whoop!
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WOW what a Saturday - we hope you had fun! Thank you to everyone who made such an effort & gave up their time today - Sarah & everyone
@revelindance
,
@shrewsburymayor
,
@Towncriermartin
,
@BBCShropshire
, & all the volunteer stewards. Every £ raised makes such a difference to us 😊
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We're having a right Royal do.
Refresh at Severn Hospice are getting ready for a Jubilee Street Party on June 5. There'll be a feast, fun and games, music from Libby Gliksman and
@shrewsmorris
will drop by.
For more refreshevents
@severnhospice
.org.uk or 01743 211142
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Thank you to every walker, marshall and volunteer that made Shrewsbury Midnight Walk such a success tonight. Because you care, we can.
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This
#WorldHospiceDay
we would like to thank all our staff and volunteers who work 24/7 in the community and on our wards providing some of the best care in some of the most difficult circumstances - you are incredible! And everyone who supports us so we can do the work we do ❤️
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Penguins!? In this heat? The Orthospeedics from
@RJAH_NHS
prepare for the first safety briefing.
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Staff at Ellesmere College raised £1,000 to buy the materials to make protective visors and spent Saturday making them.
They gave us 100 and some will be distributed to hospitals and healthcare providers.
Thanks to Matthew Horton, Jonathan Haycock, Andy Lycett and Ian Williams💕
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Players from
@shrewsburycc
and
@HaughmondFC
have been completing the MegaMetre Challenge by running 1,000k for us.
So far, they have raised more than £7,200.
To donate go to
🙏Thanks so much –
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Great news👍Flood waters are receding and our two Shrewsbury shops, in Mardol and Wyle Cop, are now open. Why not pop in and grab yourself a bargain? However, our Ironbridge shop remains closed today, unfortunately. Best wishes to everyone affected by the flooding.❤️💙💚💕
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🐉🚣♂️☀️ It's this weekend! Are you excited?! We have over 40 teams taking part in our Dragon Boat Festival full of our friends from awesome organisations in the community and beyond! Big thanks and good luck to everyone involved 👏👏👏
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Bridgnorth Cricket Club have raised more than £8,200 for us. Thanks so much!
More than 250 people took part in a virtual relay which involved someone either running, cycling or walking as far as they could for one hour.
They covered 3,315.45km and raised £8,275 - thanks guys!
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Just look at this glorious sunset over our hospice at Apley. The pic was snapped last night by Sharon, one of our Hospice at Home nurses.
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This beautiful photo of
#MarketDrayton
, taken and auctioned by Aaron Evans, was bought by our friends at
@BarbersSales
raising £250 for our hospice
#ThankYouThursday
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Our vision is a world where people are cared for at the end of life as well as they were at its beginning. It's
#DyingMattersWeek
Let's talk
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👍Thanks to ⚽️⚽️⚽️Joe Hart
@BurnleyOfficial
@shrewsweb
@England
for supporting our first ever Facebook fundraising quiz. You're a star.👏
Don't forget tomorrow at 7pm, seven rounds for Severn Hospice.
Go to to donate and take part. What you waiting for?
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10 yrs ago today we got the keys to our Apley hospice, so it's cake time!More celebrations planned for Sept, when inpatients first arrived.
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Our Complementary Therapy team's exceptional work saw them reach the final of a national competition this afternoon!
Here's our consultant Toria and team leader Sue with their certificate at the
@CompTherapyAwds
in London. A great achievement! 🌟🌟🌟
#ThankYouThursday
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How lovely is this? A kind-hearted Telford schoolboy, Ollie, has made 30 ‘worry’ jars which he has donated to us. The 11-year-old has struggled with health problems, so understands what it is like to struggle with mental health. Read his story here
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Three years ago, 11-year-old Lauren suggested to her mum Donna that they donate an item a day to our patients during advent and that's what they've done ever since! Just look at the bundle they gave us this year🎁❤️🎁
Thank you for caring, Lauren 🥰
#HospiceHero
#CharityTuesday
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It’s all happening in
#Shrewsbury
on the River Severn at our Dragon Boat Festival… back for the first time since 2019! Don’t miss today’s final at 3.15pm - all welcome 🛶🐉
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*STOLEN VAN* If anyone sees or is offered for sale a medium wheelbase Transit van, reg DS09 AOM, please call the police. The van is ours - stolen from our Furniture Store on Saturday night. Staff are gutted, as you’d expect. Good job there are still character limits on Twitter...
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⚽️ Score! A huge
#ThankYouThursday
to HM Prison Stoke Heath prison staff and prisoners who've raised ££s for us because of the care one of their staff received from us. They raised almost £700 with a charity football match and other amazing fundraising efforts - thank you guys!❤️
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After setting off on Friday to cycle from Land's End to John o' Groats in 99 hours, the Mayor of
@GreatDawley
is on target to smash it. What a guy. Rain, blistering heat and dark, lonely nights have not deterred him. What a superb effort. Keep peddling! Not far to go now.
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Yesterday we welcomed the Deputy Mayor of
@TelfordWrekin
Council and general super-fundraiser
@CllrRajMehta
to our
#Telford
hospice where he presented us a cheque for whopping £10,000! Read more about it here
#ThankYouThursday
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If you've heard about us in the news today, you can find out more on our website here:
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It's time to wish these heroes a big
#ThankYouThursday
for doing their bit to support us...
🏥👩⚕️The
@SaTHCritCare
at
#Telford
's Princess Royal Hospital organised an Easter raffle which raised £400 for us.
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And they're off! Our first Severn Striders are on their way. Good luck everyone and thanks for your support.
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👏Our wonderful landlords are just amazing.
In the past 48 hours, a number have agreed that some of our shops can take ‘rent holidays’ during the current COVID-19 outbreak.
It really is a BIG
#ThankYouThursday
to them - their support and flexibility means everything to us🥰
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Huge applause for
@WrekinCol
chaplain Michael Horton who raised an £5,700 for us by walking up The Wrekin every day for 64 days. 👏 An amazing achievement that means so much! His target is £6,000 so if you’d like to donate please visit his JustGiving page:
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Thank you to the British Alpaca Society and everyone who came to the show in Telford over the weekend for raising £4,395.82 for our hospice!
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Our gardeners have been busy during lockdown.🌳
The grass has been scarified, beds 🌿weeded, branches and brash cleared, lawns mowed and an area which is home to some rare moth caterpillars carefully tended.
Spring is here and everything is 💐blooming.
#MotivationMonday
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Our Outreach nurses were enjoying a quiet lunch break in our gardens today when they spotted two moles digging in the undergrowth and hunting for worms.
The moles carried on undisturbed and certainly made lunchtime for our nurses that bit more interesting. How sweet
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Our cooks took a break today from preparing home-cooked meals and went flippin' crazy.🤪
Some of the team at Apley tried their hand at pancake🥞🍳 tossing – it appears they had it licked and we know the patients on our wards will enjoy the sweet and savoury treats.
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A message of love arrived at our hospice this week – in the shape of seven paper hearts❤️
Made by Dominic and Daniel, with help from mum Kelly, the hearts were sent to our outreach team as a thank you.
Thanks so much boys, they really made us smile and they look beautiful👍
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Our volunteer drivers literally go the extra mile in helping the families we care for. Here's John, who's been volunteering with us for 20 years and says he still loves it. Our volunteers are amazing every day, not just this week.
#VolunteersWeek
👉
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🙏Thanks to 🐖🐓🐄🐑NFU Mutual in Welshpool. They nominated us to win part of a £1million national fund which has been allocated to support local frontline charities.
And we’ve been given £3,000 – fantastic!
Thanks everyone, your support means so much👍
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@shrewsburycc
and
@HaughmondFC
raised £16,248.69 for us with their Megametre challenge.
What an amazing amount👍
More than 30 teams and clubs ran more than 2,800km over seven days in 5k relays.
Thanks so much for your awesome support👏 It means so much to us.
#charitytuesday
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Amazing support for us and
@jaynesargenttf
at the
@LetsGoQuackers
auction! The first four lots have raised four-figure sums. Each. It’s going to be a quacking night. 👀
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The team of
@WMerciaPolice
officers training to run the Market Drayton 10k in riot gear this May have already raised an incredible £4,460 for us🚔
It's all to support their close friend with cancer. Can you help them reach £5,000?
Read their story 👉
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Driving 200,000 miles a year and caring for people round the clock – this is what it takes for our Hospice at Home nurses and Outreach teams to deliver our care right to the heart of the community.
#HospiceCareWeek
#ThisIsWhatItTakes
To learn more go to
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Owzat! 🏏 Wishing a huge
#ThankYouThursday
to the guys
@BridgnorthCC
who took on the
@bridgnorthwalk
at the weekend to fundraise for us🚶♀️🚶♂️
Your support will help us to continue caring for local families living with incurable illnesses 💚
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👮♂️ PC Gary Lansdale will lead a team of West Mercia Police officers in running the Market Drayton 10k kitted out in full riot gear this May.
Here he explains why they've chosen to help raise money for our care...👇
In May, some of our officers are running the Market Drayton 10k.........in FULL riot gear!!!! It's all for a good cause as they're raising money for
@severn_hospice
. Led by
@LardyUK
the team has already raised almost £5,000 💷💷💷
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Thank you so much to everyone who supported our
#ColourRun
yesterday. We really enjoyed putting on the day for you and are so grateful to you for everything you do for us. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ We've added some pix to our FB page too, with more to come 👉
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Is this the moment that
#Shrewsbury
set a new
#guinnessbookofrecords
#WorldRecord
? Spectacular to see 1096 people dancing the
#Charleston
#SuchFun
Over to you for verification
@GWR
!!
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Thanks to everyone who has bought a ticket to win a six-bedroom farmhouse.
The house belongs to our supporters Nigel and Jane and they decided to raffle off their beautiful home to raise funds for us.
Go to to enter. It costs just £2 a go.
Good luck👍
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🥰We're so lucky to have such dedicated volunteers and we want to let them know we're thinking of them and missing them during these unprecedented times.
Our 1,400 volunteers carry out a huge variety of roles.
We just want to say: ‘Thank You and we hope you’re safe and well’.❤️
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🎲🎉We're delighted you voted for us to get a space on the new Shrewsbury Monopoly edition! And with every game bought from us £10 will go to our care ❤️
Get your game-face on, your Monopoly money ready and advance to order the perfect Christmas gift now
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How amazing do Lula and Sian look?
The teenagers had their gorgeous hair shaved off last week and raised more than £3,250 for us. What a fantastic amount.🤩
Girls, you look beautiful. Thank you, your support means so much to us.
#thankyouthursday
@ShropshireStar
❤️
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It's another fab
#ThankYouThursday
with a cheque of almost £2k from
@TheNovaraiders
Cycling Club! 🚵♀️🚴♂️🚵♂️🚴♀️🚵♀️The cycling group has been supporting us since 2014 with their Round
#Shropshire
Challenge and Giro d’Joules raising over £10k for us over the years! WOW. Thank you all 😊
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We said hello to a group of District Nurses this week who came along to our education suite to enhance their learning about palliative care. The nurses came from all over Shropshire and it was lovely to be able to welcome them to our site at Bicton and share knowledge.
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Wishing all our London to Paris cyclists bon voyage as they set off on their ride epic ride today!
#skylinel2p
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Congratulations! Not just a place for shopping, but also a fantastic community player and hospice supporter, getting involved with lots of things we do - and always keeping the brilliant Beharrell family warm while they collect for us!
#community
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A huge thank you to everyone at the
#Shropshire
Business Awards for raising over £3000 for the hospice!
#SBA14
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After 29 years service Martyn Barlow is retiring... and because we cared for his wife Deb and another relative, his colleagues held a collection for us. On his last drill night Martyn handed his leaving gift from the station to our nurses Jo and Rachel. Thank you
@SFRS_Whitchurch
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Thousands of plants, hundreds of trees, bushes, roses, and shrubs; this is what it takes to make our award-winning gardens.❤️
#HospiceCareWeek
gives us the opportunity to show you just what we get up to in and around the hospice.
Want to join us? Go to
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We welcome all family members to visit patients on our wards here at Severn Hospice
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It's a
#ThankYouThursday
cheer to the staff at Morrisons in Telford.
They had an egg-cellent idea when they visited us this week.
They brought with them dozens of Easter eggs which they gave to us to distribute amongst the staff.
Thank you so much – they went down a treat!👌
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And the best fancy dress goes to the Maternity Midwives Mermaids of
@sathNHS
! Well done, you all look magical!
#dragons2018
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Two medical practices have donated personal protective equipment to us.
Marysville Medical Practice and Pontesbury Medical Practice have given us PPE including aprons, visors and masks. Thanks so much for the donations❤️
Find out how you can support us
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Our gardener Tony and the team are busy keeping our award-winning gardens in wonderful shape this morning 🌳🍃
What do you reckon,
@mowermanjimmy
? 😅
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Despite floods and heavy snowfall, our Hospice
@Home
nurses and Outreach teams kept their appointments with our patients in the community.
Travelling around the region could have been tricky but for our dedicated clinical teams it was all in a day’s work.
We can’t stop caring.❤️
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It’s International Day of Happiness and – as always – our wonderful staff are ‘sharing happiness’ with patients, colleagues and visitors ❤️
#happytogether
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Ted and Kath celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in August and asked for donations to us instead of receiving gifts. How very kind! They hand delivered a cheque for £823.75 to our fundraiser Nicky. Thanks so much and may you have many more happy years together.
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We'd like to thank all our wonderful volunteers for all they do for our hospice not just during
#volunteersweek
but every day of the year
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Heartfelt thanks to everyone who cycled London to Paris, ran London Marathon, or supported us in any other way over a busy weekend!
#heroes
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Good luck to our wonderful ladies taking part in our
#Telford
Midnight Walk tomorrow night! 10pm at
@telfordcollege
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This team of
@WMerciaPolice
officers are preparing to run the Market Drayton 10k in riot gear to support a former colleague with cancer👮♂️🏃♀️
So far 12 bobbies have signed up to take on the task and have already raised more than £1,800!
Read their story 👉
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Staff at our café were so touched to receive a thank you card, along with flowers and chocolates from the family of one of our patients who we cared for.
We are so proud they could be there for them and offer them support when they needed us most.
#charitytuesday
❤
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Over £4,000 from the great people at Shropshire business awards
#sba15
tonight for the hospice. Thank you!
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Our patients have created amazing artworks of local beauty spots😍with help from our creative therapist Holly (left). The works include a collage of the Iron Bridge and a patchwork design of 13 landmarks – and they’re going on display at
#severnhospice
Apley. What talent!
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Our nurses visit people who are living with incurable illness all over Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Mid Wales.
When they have been out and about on home visits, they have been taking photos of local beauty spots and places of interest.
This is the locks at Grindley Brook.
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Zoom meetings can be tricky but for our social worker Caroline, the interruption was a welcome one.
Our director of care Becky handed her a bouquet and a certificate and went on to thank Caroline for her 30 years of service.
Thanks Caroline, we really appreciate all you do.
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Our gardeners braved last week's cold weather to start work on a rustic pathway which runs around Bicton’s Bluebell copse.
By April, when they also take delivery of 420 native tree and shrub saplings from the Woodland Trust, there'll be a new feature to enjoy.
#mondaymotivation
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Every weekend, June Beharrell can be seen
@markethallshrewsbury
with one of our collection tins. Over 10 years, June and her family have raised a staggering £130,000 for us! Eric from
@BBCShropshire
chats with them about their efforts, listen now⏩ 2:50:20
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