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This event is supporting two local charities to thank the community for supporting our event. St. Christopher’s Hospice is within yards of this venue and has been providing hospice care for over 40 years. Our motor club has supported their cause over many years and we are grateful for the service they provide.
About St Christopher’s
Dame Cicely Saunders founded St Christopher’s as the first hospice to link expert pain and symptom control, compassionate care, education and clinical research. St Christopher’s has been a pioneer in the field of palliative medicine, which is now established worldwide.
Caring for our local community
St Christopher’s Hospice serves a diverse population of 1.5 million in the London boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark reaching some of England’s most deprived areas.
Last year
• we cared for over 2,000 dying people 24-hours a day, seven days a week
• our home care nurses cared for over 850 people in their own homes on any one day
• we looked after almost 900 people on our four inpatient wards
• our Day Unit helped more than 1,000 people to find meaning and purpose at the end of life through creative therapies
• we supported a further 1,000 people in care homes through creative therapies
• over 450 individuals were offered bereavement support by our social workers, welfare officers, trained volunteers and spiritual care team.
The majority of our care is delivered at home, which is where most people prefer to be.
Innovative practice, research and education
Throughout its history, St Christopher’s has been a pioneer in end of life care and has raised standards of care nationally and internationally through evaluated pilot projects, research and education. Today we are one of the largest providers of end of life care training and support in the world.
Our philosophy is ‘education for all’ and our training supports both public (NHS) and voluntary sector care providers. Last year we trained 7,500 people.
Supporting us
It costs over £13 million each year to deliver all our services. Just over £5 million comes from the NHS. We must raise more than £8 million to continue to deliver our patient and family services free of charge and to run our extensive programmes of practice innovation, research and education.
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Royal London Society for the Blind.
About RLSB (Royal London Society for Blind People)
Every day at RLSB we are in contact with blind young people, who are adamant that they’re not disabled, they just can’t see everything. They’re ambitious, determined and want the same things as we all do.
RLSB exists to help blind and partially sighted young people live life without limits and we have become an expert in helping blind people achieve their goals in life. We’ve helped thousands of people over our 170 year history through our education services at Dorton House in Sevenoaks and our Peer and Support groups across London but the need for our work is growing.
• Pediatric sight loss is growing by 2 percent every year.
• One in three visually impaired people has depression and levels are increasing.
• More than nine out of ten visually impaired people have not worked for more than six months.
Let’s break the cycle
RLSB says things have to change. Young blind people should not be in this situation in today’s society. They should be out with friends, chasing their ambitions and experiencing life.
We are working our socks off to change this for the 7000 blind young people in London and the South East. With your support, we’ll succeed, we just know it.