Tag: hospice

Hospice rallies with support of ScottishPower Foundation

Stuart Mitchell

A hospice at the heart of a Welsh community has continued providing essential services throughout the coronavirus pandemic thanks to the ScottishPower Foundation. Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, Nightingale House Hospice was reliant on its popular retail stores, cafes and charity events to fund its inpatient ward, day-care and outpatient clinics, occupational therapy and bereavement support groups. Based in Wrexham, the hospice is an independent and voluntary organisation, providing free of charge palliative and end of life care to individuals and families from across north east Wales. However, when lockdown…

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Gaming Industry awards funding for Lifelyte’s new VR Project

Stuart Mitchell

Lifelites, the charity which provides specialist entertainment, educational and assistive technology packages to over 10,000 children and young people with life-limiting, life-threatening and disabling conditions in children’s hospices, has been awarded nearly £70,000 by GamesAid. GamesAid is a charity, which represents the UK video gaming industry, raises hundreds of thousands of pounds every year that they then donate to a number of small children’s charities. Lifelites were chosen by GamesAid to receive a donation that will help them to provide and maintain life-enhancing technology for terminally ill and disabled children…

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