We would like to thank the Peggy Light Foundation for kindly donating £1500 to the St Mary's Hospice at Home service.
The Hospice at Home service provides specialised palliative nursing to patients in the comfort and familiarity of their own homes, throughout the day or overnight, 365 days of the year.
There is no cost to patients or their families - but the service is not cost free. It costs up to £6000 a day to continue to provide care to the South of Cumbria Community. The service is mainly funded by charitable donations from local people with some contribution from the NHS.
The Hospice at Home team is therefore very grateful to The Peggy Light Foundation, who raised the funds to assist with the care of the terminally ill patients at home within the Barrow-in-Furness and local surrounding area.
The Peggy Light Foundation has been set up as a lasting tribute to the long standing local General Practitioner Dr David Todd.
Peggy Light, off the coast of Rampside was one of the early Lighthouses on the Furness peninsular to provide a guiding light to locals in their our of need.
The Foundations aim is to provide palliative care assistance at home to the terminally ill people of Furness.
The Foundation in the memory of Dr David Todd will be synonymous with the help of the Peggy Light Lighthouse provided to the people of Furness.
Pictured: Fleur and Annabelle Pizzey, granddaughters of the late Doctor Todd, who presented the cheque to Hospice at Home Leader Angela Mason on the Hospice Terrace.
Please visit the Peggy Light Foundation website for more information about their services: www.peggylightfoundation.com
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