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What we do
St. Clare’s offers specialist palliative care in a warm and welcoming
purpose build hospice in Jarrow, South Tyneside. We care for patients
across the South of Tyne area and provide 24 hour care 7 days a week
in our In-Patient unit.
We also provide Out-Patient services such as Day Care, Lymphedema
clinic,Physiotherapy, Counselling and Complementary Therapies.
To find out if our services are suitable for you or someone you know
please contact us on 0191 529 7100.
A word from our chairman
Welcome to the latest edition of the St. Clare’s Hospice Newsletter which includes some exciting details of our
planned fundraising events, news from our retail stores and of course the latest news from our Day Care and
In-Patient services.
Sadly we said goodbye to David Hall who has been our Chief Executive for many years and has now retired. We
wish him well and hope he has a very happy retirement. We welcomed our new Chief Executive Avril Robinson
into post in January and you can read all about her vision for the Hospice in her interview.
We are looking forward to celebrating our 30th Birthday this year and continuing to develop Hospice services
and strategies to ensure we are here for another 30 years. We’re busy picking out a few favourite moments
from the past to go in our next edition in the Autumn but would love to hear from you if you have any special
memories or photographs from years gone by.
I hope you enjoy reading about our latest updates and look forward to updating you again in our next
edition.
Kind Regards
Enid Apsey
Chairman
Thank you!
Trustees and friends held a Fashion Show in the autumn which raised £2,000, thank you to all of our models as well as our
volunteers who assisted on the evening.
To Louise Elliot who has been volunteering at fundraising events and managed to match fund her efforts thanks to her employer
Barclays Bank. Her colleagues Julie Fleming, Amanda Petty, Margo White and Mark Richardson have also joined in thanks to
Louise’s encouragement! A huge thank you to Barclays Bank for match funding their fundraising and to everyone in the team for
their support. Louise recently got married to her partner Martin and we’d like to wish them every happiness.
Thank you to all the businesses who donated prizes for our raffle at our volunteer Christmas party in December :
Bindman and Co Solicitors, Carter Business Systems, Coolcheck Refrigeration, Joe Sheridon Photography, Lynas Foster
Associates, Medi UK, Medimotion, Meltemi, Nexus, Quantum Accountancy Services, Sequin Stone, Sigvaris Britain, Sunderland
Greyhound Stadium, Towergate Insurance, TTS Worldwide, Vic Young (South Shields) and Wardhadaway Solicitors.
What is Palliative
Care?
Palliative care
(pronounced pal-lee-uh-tiv) Is
specialised medical care for people
with serious illnesses.
It focuses on providing relief from the
symptoms and stress of a serious
illness.
The goal is to improve quality of life
for both the patient and the family.
