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Welcome ...Welcome ...Welcome ... Welcome to the June issue of our monthly staff

newsletter Team Talk, where we aim to keep you up to date with what’s going on in and around the Hospice!

Join us at our Summer Garden Party!

A fun family afternoon is promised at our charity garden party on Sunday 1 July.

Our beautiful grounds are the perfect setting for our Garden Party, which is back by popular demand after a two year hiatus – and this year it’s set to be bigger and better than ever.

As well as delicious cream teas and a whole host of stalls, our younger guests will be able to enjoy a bouncy castle, face painting, crafts and games – we’ve even got a good old fashioned coconut shy!

We’re also hoping to create a buzz with our ‘Bugs and Butterflies’ fancy dress competition and we’ve got some fantastic prizes lined up for the winning costumes. Find out more here

Last chance for Summer Superdraw

Our Summer Garden Party will be the very last chance to buy a ticket for this Summer’s Superdraw!

Thank you to everyone who has bought and sold tickets over the past few weeks, we really appreciate your support!

If you’d like to see the winning tickets being drawn out, please join us at the Garden Party at 2.45pm, where the lucky winners will be announced!

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Volunteers Week 2018—we celebrated in style!

This important week gives us the opportunity to say a huge thank you to all our fantastic volunteers – over 400 of them – who generously give up their time to support Lindsey Lodge Hospice. In celebration of Volunteers’ Week we arranged some very special treats and activities to honour our volunteers…

A little gift to say thank you Every one of our volunteers received a thank you card which

has been specially designed for them by renowned artist Dennis Nash, who is also one of our patients, with a handwritten message from our Chief Executive Karen Griffiths. They also received a lovely little pin badge as a memento.

Discount on a cuppa all week: Thanks to all the big hearted local organisations who invited our volunteers for a free cuppa all week.

Long Service Lunch – 1 June: Congratulations to everyone who attended our special lunch to celebrate the long service of all the volunteers who have supported us for 15 years. Volunteer Forum – 4 June: This month, our complementary therapy co-ordinator was on hand to talk about his work and offer some

massage practice to anyone who needed a little TLC. Volunteer Walk – 5 June: Our volunteers enjoyed a walk around one of North Lincolnshire’s popular routes – all followed by a pub lunch. Bake-off – 6 June: Our Hospice staff baked cupcakes for volunteers to judge. Congratulations to the winners! All cakes were then shared around our shops for our volunteers to enjoy. Art Workshop – 7 June: New members were welcomed to our existing volunteer group to come along and learn a new skill or rediscover an old one! Here are just a few photos from this special week, there are more on our website here

NewsNewsNews Gearing up for Glow Walk on 6 July

Over 250 people have signed up for our 30,000 step Glow Walk 2018 on Friday 6 July and many of them have been joining us for training walks to prepare them for the big event.

People of all ages and abilities have signed up. Some are walking in memory of a loved one, while others just enjoy the fun and challenge of it all.

Whatever their reason for supporting us we’re encouraging them to step up and glow to the challenge and help us make our Glow Walk 2018 our most successful charity walk ever!

On the night, there will be a party atmosphere to kick start the event, teamed with a warm up hosted by Penny Golding, the Hospice’s very own Glow Vibes instructor. There will also be opportunity on the night to buy flashing bunny ears and glow sticks.

Walkers will be able to carry a lantern during the last stretch of the walk and place it in the grounds of the Hospice on their return – a great way to show that our hearts still glow when we remember our loved ones.

There’s still time to sign up! Please click here for more information.

Five a side footy success

Thank you to all of the 16 teams who took part in our first charity five-a-side football tournament on 23 June at App Frod Sports & Social Club, which raise an amazing

£1,300! The weather couldn’t have been better, and the competition could not have been more fierce! Congratulations to winners Zeera Tike Mo Salah who represented ‘France’ and runners up Fallen Hero who represented ‘Portugal’. Well done to everyone!

Winners Zeera Tike Mo Salah

Boots Charity Event

If you’re out and about shopping on Friday 29 June between 6pm and 8pm, please pop into Boots, North Lincolnshire Shopping Park. They’re holding charity fundraiser for Lindsey Lodge. More here

Haircut raises hundreds

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An Epworth beauty therapist has helped raise over £731 for Lindsey Lodge Hospice, thanks to the support of students and staff at North Lindsey College where she studies. Fiona Pears (50), who is set to complete her Level 3 Beauty Therapy studies in the next few weeks, had 17 inches (43 cm) of her glossy mane of hair cut off in aid of the Hospice, in memory of her late mum Pamela Hunt, who passed away in 2017. Find out more here

Jackpot winner drops in to pick up cheque

We’ve welcomed our latest £1,000 lucky Lottery jackpot winner, Philip Codd from Gainsborough to the Hospice!

This latest win means that over £8,800 has been won by Lindsey Lodge Hospice supporters already in 2018! Fancy getting involved? Please follow this link to find out more.

Ashby Decoy lunch success

Thank you to Tony Clarke and his team at Ashby Decoy Golf Club for another superb lunch to raise funds for Lindsey Lodge Hospice.

Thanks also to our wonderful supporters who came to our event – we raised over £400!

Welcome to Starbucks

Welcome to Starbucks, which has now opened in Scunthorpe town centre.

We’re delighted they’ve chosen Lindsey Lodge Hospice as their chosen charity this year, so if you’re paying them a visit, we’d be extremely grateful if you could spare some change to pop in our collection tins.

Delicious Charity Tea at The Courtyard Thank you to the organisers,

helpers and everyone who attended the Charity Tea at The Courtyard event for Lindsey Lodge Hospice.

So much effort goes into these occasions and everything was delicious – thank you!

Well done Mark!

Our amazing supporter Mark Morris has completed the UK’s most iconic ultra-marathon, running 69 stunning miles through historic Hadrian’s Wall country, from Carlisle to Newcastle in The Wall 2018 – and it only took him 17 hours

and 4 minutes! What an amazing individual – and we’re so proud of him and grateful for his support. But it doesn’t stop there! Next up is the Great North Run in September...

Please support him by donating at: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/mark-morris22

His year eleven students at Oasis Academy Immingham did just that! They raised £68.70 to say thanks for being such a great teacher!

Check Mark out on Estuary TV news by clicking here

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Pop up Shop success A huge well done to Hospice Volunteer Bridget Harrison and all our supporters for organising

a very successful Pop up Shop at The Black Beauty Pub on Saturday 9 June. Thanks to everyone who attended, it raised over £1,100 for Lindsey Lodge. Tractors galore in Epworth What an amazing sight it was to see so many tractors turning out to take part in the Epworth Tractor Run on Father’s Day. Thank you so much to everyone involved for supporting us! More here Messingham ladies dazzle

A Ladies’ Luncheon held by our Messingham Supporter Group has raised a fantastic £420! All our visitors dressed in their finest and best for the event, which included a delicious catered lunch provided by Occasions and a fabulous guest speaker, Sandra Bright, who shared her experience of appearing on television in the BBC series ‘The Great Allotment Challenge’.

Charity cyclists get in a spin Around 60 cyclists rode out on the Summer Beach & BBQ ride organised by Sportive HQ on Saturday 16 June. Thanks to everyone who supported this event at such short notice, we’re looking forward to the next one!

Cuppas and cakes raise funds

Thank you to Jenny and Adele for putting such a wonderful coffee morning (and afternoon!) at Bucknell Farm, it raised £550.

Swimarathon donates £200 to Hospice A huge thank you North Lincolnshire Rotary Swimarathon for awarding Lindsey Lodge Hos-pice £200 at their wonderful ceremony on Fri-day 15 June.

Want to know more about What’s On?

Keep up to date about all the main activities and events we have planned for 2018, with our online What’s On Guide more here

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Open Gardens season well underway!

What a wonderful start we’ve had to our Open Gardens programme this year! Green fingered gardening fans have been able to visit beautiful gardens in Alkborough, Epworth, West Butterwick, Cadney and Howsham, Barton, Bottesford and Haxey.

Thanks to all our wonderful gardeners for opening up their gardens, we’ve already raised a fantastic £8,600—so please continue to give them your support. Details of all the July gardens can be found here

Summer Sizzler Event at Lindsey’s

Looking for that perfect summer outfit? Please join us at our beautiful pre-loved fashion boutique on Wednesday 11 July for

complimentary Pimms and Strawberries, while you shop for the very best of our summer designer fashions— fit for any occasion!

Barton Bike Night

We’ll be celebrating one of the biggest and best bike nights in the world at our Barton Hospice Shop by opening late!.

So come along and grab a bargain and join in with all the fun!

Vintage VIP tickets up for grabs

Tickets are flying off the shelves for our Vintage Spectacular 2018, which is on Saturday 20 October - so don’t miss out on your chance for a VIP ticket! Find out more here

Your Opinion Counts...Your Opinion Counts...Your Opinion Counts...

Thank you to everyone who takes the time to send us feedback by filling in our patient questionnaires, in our comments book, by post, or even via social media.

We thought we’d share a few with you so you can see—your opinion really does make all the difference to everyone at Lindsey Lodge Hospice!

Amazing staff who look after

both patients and their

relatives. A big thank you for

your wonderful care.

A place of total care, love and compassion to all.

Top drawer staff, a real privilege to be present!

People get looked after well

here.

(a supporter aged 8)

Wonderful caring, loving staff/ lots of hugs when needed. x has been so lovingly cared for. My heartfelt thanks

to you all.

Contact For information on any of the items featured in this newsletter please contact Marketing and PR Co-ordinator Jenny Baynham on email: jenny.baynham@nhs.net

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