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Celebrating our wonderful colleagues in Volunteers’ Week
As part of Volunteers’ Week, we’re shining a spotlight on four of our incredible colleagues to offer an insight into the different ways volunteers support us across our special charity.
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“Patients tell me the hospice is a unique oasis of calm”
Claire Treen has recently started working at our hospice as a Healthcare Assistant. She shares more about her role.
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Scale the iconic Spinnaker Tower for our hospice
We're looking for 40 adventurous fundraisers to take on an epic 100 metre abseil down Portsmouth's Spinnaker Tower.
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Celebrate with a Father’s Day Feast at the Woodgate Hub
To celebrate Father’s Day on Sunday 16 June, the Woodgate Hub is hosting a fabulous feast so you can spoil the father figures in your life.
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“I’m amazed by the new hospice. It’s mind-blowing”
Bill McCusker was one of the first people to attend an outpatient exercise class at our new hospice. He and his wife Muriel tell us how the classes have helped.
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“We get to know the person they were before they became a patient”
Married couple Tim and Susie are both nurses at our hospice. They share what it's like to both work at St Catherine's.
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Useful resources about death, dying, and grief
As part of Dying Matters Awareness Week, we thought we’d share some resources that might help you when talking about death and dying, or when navigating grief.
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“When I die, get me some flowers from the supermarket”
It's important we talk about death and dying. This Dying Matters Awareness Week, Chloe, whose Mum Lorretta died in April 2022, shares the difference the conversations she had with her Mum before her death made.
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“The land where the hospice stands is home”
Billie Bridges shares how the new St Catherine's Hospice stands on the land that used to be her family farm and why she's trekking to Petra for the hospice in November 2024.