Volunteers’ Week 2022!
June 1-7 was Volunteers’ Week, where charities celebrate their amazing volunteers across the country! There are a lot of amazing people ...
Here you can find the latest news happening at St John’s Hospice and among its incredible supporters. From news concerning the wider hospice community and its patients, to spectacular fundraising efforts from groups and individuals, this is the place to keep your finger on the St John’s pulse! If you have some fundraising news to share with us, please email [email protected] and maybe can feature it here in these pages.
June 1-7 was Volunteers’ Week, where charities celebrate their amazing volunteers across the country! There are a lot of amazing people ...
A message from Sue McGraw – CEO of St John’s Hospice for Volunteers’ Week 2022. 1st to the 7th of June ...
Get an update on some of our fundraising activities from the last year, read a beautiful patient story, and find ...
The St John’s Hospice Moonlight Walk is back for 2022. You’re invited to join our many regular fundraising walkers in ...
The St John’s Hospice Lottery is celebrating its 10th birthday this April! The St John’s Lottery, which has a top ...
Irene and Gary Denman won the third prize of £500 in the our Superdraw, and have chosen to donate £250 ...
Hi, my name’s Claire – I started work for my St John’s Hospice in 2018. I have a very special job ...
New Year is seen as a new start for many, and also a great chance to reflect. Creating or updating ...
Across Lancaster and Kendal, St John’s Hospice’s Christmas Events have been held in person for the ...
A generous donation from a patient’s family coincided with a gift from a local business, meaning St John’s Hospice has ...
One of our amazing supporters, Joy Knowles, cycled from Land’s End to John O’Groats in support of her local Hospice. Joy ...
Update: The Courtyard Café is now open Monday to Friday, 10am – 3pm, with soup and sandwiches served from 11.30am ...
This week is Hospice Care Week and I wanted to take a few minutes to celebrate all that St John’s does, ...
This is a story that comes from the hearts of many. Kerry and Jo are members of the Strawberry Girls ...
St John’s Hospice’s Moonlight Walk on Saturday 11th September was an amazing success with around 400 walkers covering the 14km ...
Georgia Till has received a letter from Her Majesty The Queen thanking her for her work supporting St John’s Hospice. Georgia ...
St John’s Hospice has unveiled their beautiful steel sunflower displays in the Lake District National Park’s Brockhole on Windermere and The Duchy ...
In July hundreds of people walked across Morecambe Bay in rain ...
Former teacher Gregory Lambert took on the ‘Race to the Castle’ 100km course for St John’s Hospice. Gregory challenged himself to the ...
Local sisters Jen and Nicola Christensen have walked from the Wirral, Liverpool to St John’s Hospice, Lancaster in only ...
Friday 25th June 2021 saw the return of the St Johns Hospice Golf Day. Our 8th annual golf event took ...
Elizabeth Adams, Amy Baron and Lynne Humphreys are took on the Lake District Ultra Challenge for St John’s Hospice in ...
St John’s Hospice’s longest serving volunteer is retiring after 35 years of service. Marion Robinson started volunteering at St John’s not long after it first ...
Football’s coming home! Well this amazing signed Morecambe FC shirt, signed by all the Wembley winning team could be coming ...
St John’s Hospice Shops are now selling on Depop, a global reselling app and website that combines online shopping and ...
This week is Volunteers Week, when we celebrate and say thanks to all the volunteers that support and give their ...
We’re so happy to share with you our mini newsletter, catching you up on what’s been happening at St John’s ...
The 35th Birthday Club at St John’s Hospice has attracted an international member as Alan Dale, a Massachusetts resident, has pledged to raise a minimum ...
Local entrepreneur Mateo Sanderson has donated hand sanitiser dispensers to all of St John’s Hospice’s shops to help Hospice charity shoppers stay safe after stores re-opened on 12th April. Mateo set up ...
Following the official government announcement easing lockdown restrictions throughout the UK, the St John’s Hospice Shops reopened on Monday 12th April throughout North Lancashire and the South ...
Once again, our wonderful St John’s Hospice Shops have had to temporarily close because of the latest national lockdown. This means we ...
A huge thank you to everyone who entered the St John’s Hospice Christmas Superdraw 2020 and thank you also to ...
This Christmas Season we have introduced a fun new fundraising activity for young people – The Reindeer Rush. This sponsored ...
Thanks to the Hospice community we have reached our £14,000 target to buy a specialist ‘cuddle bed’, helping people to be closer to their ...
In the true spirit of Christmas, one of our wonderful supporters, Angela Metcalfe has had a vision of how ...
St John’s Hospice are benefitting from the Shrimps’ FA Cup campaign this year, as stadium sponsors, Mazuma, have donated their sponsorship space ...
This year St John’s Hospice is proud to welcome SWS UK as supporters to our Light Up a Life campaign. Martin ...
We have launched an appeal to raise £14,000 for a specialist ‘cuddle’ bed for patients and their families. To donate to ...
Last Friday saw St Johns Hospice 7th annual Golf Day take place at Windermere Golf Club. The sun was shining ...
5th – 11th October 2020 is Hospice Care Week. This year’s theme is ‘This is What it Takes’ and here ...
Thank you to everyone who entered the fantastic prize draw to win Melling Hall. Unfortunately not enough tickets were sold in ...
Independent SPAR retailer Lawrence Hunt & Co Ltd , a Lancashire based family business operating 26 SPAR stores has given ...
Karen, one of our supporters has participated in the St John’s Hospice Moonlight Walk for a long time and 2 ...
Hello everyone, the 1st – 7th June is National Volunteers Week and it’s a week in the year that I ...
As you are aware the impact of Covid-19 is a cause for concern for individuals, families, businesses and the charity ...
Thank you to every one of our brilliant supporters who have signed up for our many fundraising events. With the ongoing ...
An early start for some of the trekkers as they wanted to take advantage of last minute shopping in Kathmandu. ...
The final view from our tents this morning was not only highly emotional but also one of great achievement. ...
Once again we awoke to amazing scenery and another day of clear blue skies which allowed for many more photographs. ...
After going to bed in the clouds we woke to the awesome sight of the Annapurna range. As each trekker ...
Last night, after dinner we had a surprise from the local women’s group from the village, quite fitting as it ...
We are so pleased to be able to say that our recent work in getting the Facebook donate button working ...
St John’s Hospice is proud to be caring for and supporting Keith Ainsworth and his family. Keith is currently receiving ...
Thank you to the 15 people who have been successful in securing a St John’s Hospice Great North Run place. If ...
It’s not quite Christmas time just yet but it is time to get our wonderful Christmas Puddings ready! We need ...
Thank you to Jenny Boland and her colleagues Vanessa and Helen from Allianz who came to volunteer at St Johns ...
St John’s Hospice was paid a welcome volunteering visit from the Turbine Support Group at Heysham 2 Power Station this ...
St John’s Hospice are delighted to have been shortlisted in the 2019/2020 Westmorland Shopping Centre Charity Partnership in Kendal. We need ...
What is Dying Matters Week? Every year in May, the organisation ‘Dying Matters’ and its members host an Awareness Week, which ...
Our Sahara Trekkers have now departed! If you would like to donate to their efforts you can do so below: Donate ...
Hello, I’m Katie and this is my beautiful Prom Dress. This is the dream dress that I saw and set my ...
Andrea Jackson, our Ambassador for Ingleton & North Yorks has been a dedicated St John’s supporter for a number of ...
Due to increasing demand for Hospice services the car park is being extended. This means that the car park will ...
Look out for our new furniture shop opening in the Arndale Centre, Morecambe in the next few weeks. We are currently ...
Looking for a new challenge in 2020? We are excited to launch our second London to Paris cycle! This once in ...
Thank you to all who have dedicated a light this year. The list below was updated on the morning of ...
A winning combination takes place every Friday morning from 10am-12noon at St John’s Hospice with the local Parkinson’s Group coming ...
Lancaster On Ice – it’s coming to Dalton Square on Sunday 25th November and St John’s Hospice is the headline ...
Brave duo Louise Barker & Viki Sutton recently set out from Garstang and Lancaster to make the epic climb up ...
Would you like to have a delicious home cooked Christmas meal in the Courtyard Cafe? We have recently launched our Christmas ...
We have secured 15 places for the Great North Run on Sunday 8th September 2019. Would you like to take ...
St John’s Hospice in Lancaster is holding an informal evening next week showcasing what it means to be a trustee ...
This April Jo took part in the VMLM for St John’s Hospice. We were so lucky to have had Jo ...
Here is the daily blog from our Machu Picchu trek in Peru in 2018. Thank you to all our trekkers ...
Here is the daily blog from our China trek in 2016. Thank you to all our amazing trekkers who together have ...
