Forest Holme Hospice Charity

Great effort from Karen Johnson who has signed-up for our 25km for 25 Years challenge and has already completed the Sydling Hill 10k (which is actually 11k!).
Karen's planning at least two more races to hit the 25km and the next one will be three 5 mile laps in a unicorn outfit for the Unicorn Frolic! 😲🦄

A massive thank you to Andy and his team from Elite Fabrication & Welding Ltd and Neil and the team from Dolphin Marine, who together have created our lovely Celebration of Life Tree in the hospice garden.
Thanks to their generosity, Forest Holme supporters will now be able to dedicate a leaf for a donation, which will be engraved with a personalised message for your loved one.❤️
Each leaf tribute will be displayed within our hospice garden for a year (from the day it is fir...st mounted), after which there will be the option to renew for another 12 months, or have the leaf returned to keep.
We ask for a minimum yearly donation of £60 to dedicate a leaf, which can also be paid in monthly instalments of £5.
To dedicate a leaf, please complete a dedication form, which are available within the hospice or by contacting the fundraising team either via Facebook Messenger, tel: 01202 670644 or email: fundraising@forestholmehospice.org.u k
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Thank you to everyone that has sent in photos of their sunflowers grown from the charity kits that we sold earlier this year - fantastic effort everyone! ❤️🌻
Please keep sending them to us as we will also be printing them in our next Newsletter.

Your generous donations have enabled us to have our hospice car park upgraded and yesterday Sportshall Markings Ltd visited to paint new parking bay lines, which they kindly did at a heavily discounted rate.

WAREHAM RIVER CRUISE
We unexpectedly have some tickets available for our ever-popular annual Wareham River Cruise on Thursday 25th July, which includes a stop-off at Wareham Quay, live on-board entertainment, fish and chips and a prime position to watch the fireworks at Poole Quay. Tickets are £28.
Contact Kathy in Fundraising on 01202 670644 or email fundraising@forestholmehospice.org.u k

The wonderful Vivamente Voices performed their final concert in support of Forest Holme at St Nicholas Church Corfe Mullen recently, so we would like to thank them for choosing the hospice as their Charity of the Year and we can't wait to see how much they have raised in total!

Thank you to our volunteers who helped out last week at a special late night shopping event held by our charity partner Beales of Poole in the The Dolphin Shopping Centre.
Store Manager, Steve Riley, said, They did a great job, as ever!"

Due to the final stages of driveway maintenance being carried out at Forest Holme, please can we request that both staff and visiting cars are located off site all day on Monday 1st July from 8am.
Alternative parking can be found at Poole Hospital car park and the Dolphin Swimming Pool.
Thank you for your cooperation and apologies for any inconvenience.

Thought for the weekend...

Thank you to Steve Small from the Bankes Charity, who popped in recently to deliver a donation for £300 to Charlie in the fundraising office.

Thank you to the Mike Harriott and the Corfe Castle Club who very kindly made a cheque donation of £500 to the charity last week from money raised through their own lottery.

Thank you Helen Ross and her son Ellis who delivered these beautiful hand painted pebbles to the office yesterday.
To mark our 25th anniversary, we will be hiding decorated pebbles around the area (Poole, Wimborne and Isle of Purbeck) for others to find and then rehide!
If you'd like to get involved, all you need to do is paint a rock (or write a positive message), write ‘Forest Holme Hospice Rocks’ on the back, take a photo, upload it to our Facebook page, then hide the rock and make a stranger smile when they find it! Hopefully they will feel the love and paint one too!

Congratulations to Julie Peach who has recently completed here own 25km for 25 Years challenge for Forest Holme by participating in a number of local running events.
If you'd like to do 25km this year for Forest Holme, simply register for FREE via https://25kmfor25.eventbrite.co.uk/

In 2008 our new relatives’ lounge was officially opened by the lovely Fiona Castle - wife of entertainer Roy Castle OBE, who laid the foundation stone of the building in 1993 just before his death - following a successful grant application from the The King's Fund. #ThrowBackThursday #FH25Years

A publication written by a Forest Holme supporter in memory of his wife has been published to raise funds for the hospice.
David Thorburn’s ‘Holding Hands In The Dark’ is an honest and open account of what it’s like for a wife and mum of four, with eight grandchildren, living with a terminal cancer diagnosis. Featuring poems, photographs and diary extracts, the publication documents the impact of life with his beloved wife Anita, detailing her physical and emotional journey f...rom initial diagnosis to her passing at Forest Holme in 2017, age 63.
With encouragement from others (including our hospice counsellors), he began to explore and express his feelings about what he describes as the “most profound experience of my life.”
‘Holding Hands In The Dark’ is available from fundraising for £2 or by post for £3 (incl p&p). Please contact the fundraising team either via Facebook Messenger, tel: 01202 670644 or email: fundraising@forestholmehospice.org