Louise Brown’s Sunflower Cupcakes
A bouquet of colourful cupcakes whetted the appetite of East Cheshire Hospice staff. They were licking their lips after learning the delicious cupcakes, with buttercream sunflowers, were the prize in a staff raffle. Cup cakes in the East Cheshire Hospice sunflower logo Fundraiser Bethan Wade was the lucky winner of the display, delivered by neighbour […]
Rearranging the Christmas Tree Collection
Does anyone still have a Christmas tree that needs collecting? True to its word East Cheshire Hospice is keeping a promise to pick up trees registered under its collection scheme. The service had to be postponed once Cheshire went back into lockdown at the start of the year. The vast majority of donors refused the […]
Join Our Easter Eggstravaganza
East Cheshire Hospice is inviting supporters to join an Easter Eggstravaganza from March 29-April 5. A fundraising pack has ideas about how to take part, along with recipes, decorations and scorecards. It could be a bake-off style competition, or simply spending time with family and friends eating cake and drinking coffee. There is also an […]
Quizmasters’ Profiles
There is one question quiz hosts Paul Morrissey and Mark Watson cannot answer. When will East Cheshire Hospice quiz teams finally meet up again without the aid of Zoom? It is 16 months since the last quiz at Marlborough Primary School where it was always a social event as much as a test of general […]
Sentimental Jewellery Repairs Help the Hospice
Sentimental jewellery belonging to Vanessa Greveson has been given a new lease of life through her links with East Cheshire Hospice. Items include a string of pearls given to Vanessa by her late husband Warren who died at the Hospice. Help came from jewellery expert Helen Dimmick who runs Annie’s Legacy, a fundraising initiative she […]
Helen Adamson Walks for the Hospice
Helen Adamson decided to branch out with her own fundraising once this year’s tree collection for East Cheshire Hospice was called off. She walked an average of more than six miles every day last month, raising more than £3,500 in the process for the Hospice. Helen explained: “It all started after a conversation with my […]
Claire Joins the Fundraising Team
Claire Gorton will never forget the day she started her new job at East Cheshire Hospice. Her arrival last month coincided with the announcement of the latest national lockdown. It was not the news Claire and the fundraising team she had just joined wanted to hear, especially after such a frustrating year for the charity. […]
Donations for Postponed Christmas Tree Collection
East Cheshire Hospice is hoping the public will let it keep donations made for the Christmas tree collection. Refunds are available – or trees will be collected once lockdown eventually ends – but the Hospice hopes supporters will help ease its financial plight by not asking for donations to be returned. However, it says it […]
Christmas Tree Collection Postponed
Devastated organisers have apologised after reluctantly calling off the East Cheshire Hospice Christmas tree collection. The decision to cancel last weekend’s collection was forced upon organisers after the country went into a new national lockdown. A refund will be offered to more than 6,000 customers who had registered their trees on the charity’s website www.echtrees.org.uk. […]
James Bunker – Christmas Tree Collection Volunteer
*Please note that the Christmas Tree Collection has now been postponed and some information in this article may be out of date. For more information click here.* James Bunker was not even born when East Cheshire Hospice’s first Christmas tree collection took place in 2001. But the teenager is now a key part of […]