insideKENT Magazine Issue 67 - October 2017 | Page 151

Maggie has been volunteering with
the Hospice for eighteen months,
originally as a patient escort on their
minibus, and now helping in
Magnolia Place, in the Hospice café
and regularly at fundraising events.
Maggie owned a B&B in West Malling
with her husband Dick who sadly died
of oesophageal cancer in the Hospice
three and a half years ago. It was their
experience of the Hospice that led to
her becoming a volunteer.
The Awareness week, which runs
from 9th-15th October 2017, not only
gives the Hospice the opportunity to
promote their work, but also enables
them to highlight and celebrate
everyone involved in providing that
care. So whether support comes from
the Clinical Nurse Specialists and
volunteers, counsellors and Family
Services Team, physiotherapists and
fundraisers, We Are All Hospice Care.
“Whatever I can fit in, I will” says
Maggie. “When in Magnolia Place, I
help organise the quiz and other
entertainment, make tea and serve
lunches, socialise and help patients to
have fun. Generally I try to give
patients the best day they can have.”
As an independent charity, the
Hospice provides support free of
charge to those who need it, for as
long as they need it. And year on year
they look after even greater numbers
of people with an increasingly diverse
range of complex care needs. It is only
with the generosity of donors and
volunteers that they are able to do this,
which is why they are delighted that
the theme of this year’s Hospice Care
Week is ‘We Are Hospice Care’.
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