SaTH Charity’s Swan Fund celebrates a milestone birthday, turning 10 years old.
Jules Lewis, Julia Clarke and Jules Lock with the cake.
Thanks to the generosity of the public the fund has now raised over £100,000 since it was created in 2015 with a £500 donation collected at the funeral of Jules Lewis’ father, Harold, who died at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH). The money raised is used to support last hours and days care for patients and their loved ones. To celebrate, we invited the volunteers and knitters to a thank you café to thank them for their ongoing support.
Jules Lewis, End of Life Care Facilitator/Lead Nurse, said: “It is so lovely that we have turned the date of my lovely dad’s death into the Swan Fund Anniversary, a joyful and hopeful thank you café to celebrate the dedication of volunteers and knitters to our ‘one chance’ work – dad would have loved that. The day was such a heartwarming morning celebrating our volunteers and knitters.”
Jules had some thank yous to share:
Julia Clarke, Director of Public Participation and Linda Parker, Ward Clerk on Ward 32
“A big thank you to Linda Parker, Ward Clerk on Ward 32 and Swan EOLC Volunteer / Champion for her service over the years, especially during the pandemic, we wish you a very happy retirement, we will miss you.”
Jules Lock Lead Swan EOLC Volunteer and Jules Lewis End of Life Care Facilitator/Lead Nurse with the cake
“Thank you to Jules Lock our lead Swan EOLC Volunteer for making the Swan Fund 10th Birthday thank you café cake”.
“Thank you to everyone who bought a raffle ticket for the event. The winner of first prize, the beautiful painting by Roy Lilley (Health Writer / Commentator & Artist), was Jackie Payne – well done Jackie”.
Julia Clarke, Director of Public Participation, said: “We are so grateful to the people who donate to the Swan Fund and our wonderful volunteers and the knitters who donated knitted kindness hearts.
“We would also like to thank our staff for their commitment to provide the best possible care to their patients and their loved ones.
“The Swan Fund is used to provide extras that are not provided within the national contract like skylights in the Swan Rooms, reclining chairs for relatives to sleep on, mood lights, they also provide Swan folders and Swan bereavement bags to loved ones that include vital information. Everyone involved is supporting those who are going through the hardest moment of their lives”.