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THE MAYOR OF WORTHING’S CHARITIES
ST BARNABAS HOUSE
St Barnabas is a charity whose aim is to provide high quality specialist palliative care both within the hospice and in the comfort of patients’ homes treating adults with advanced progressive life-limiting illnesses. We offer a range of services - pain control, symptom relief, skilled nursing care, counselling, complementary therapies, spiritual care, physiotherapy, reminiscence, and bereavement support for families and relatives.
It costs around £3.1 million each year to provide this care and only a small part of these costs are state funded. This means that the majority of the money has to be raised through voluntary donations from local communities within the Worthing, Adur and Arun areas.
Patients are never charged for their care at St Barnabas and we depend on the generosity of the public, local organisations, our network of Friends Groups and fundraising events and activities to help raise the balance needed to maintain the high standard of care and comfort we provide to our local community.
St Barnabas Building a Dream Appeal
The current hospice building was designed with a lifespan of 25 years but it is now 35 years old and the building needs more and more work each year. Our nursing team do an incredible job but the building is stopping them providing the care they want to offer.
We are building a new hospice on a site in Titnore Lane, just half a mile from the current hospice. We will increase our Inpatient beds to 20 and accommodation will be in single en suite rooms to afford our patients greater comfort and dignity. The Day Hospice will be bigger and have private consultation rooms. There will be a private entrance for patients and improved access to the wonderful gardens surrounding the new hospice. The rebuild will cost £13.5 million but we already have £9.5 million in the bank. The aim of our Building A Dream Appeal is to raise the final £4 million in order to achieve our dream of a brand new St Barnabas.
Contact: St Barnabas House, Columbia Drive, Worthing, West Sussex, BN13 2QF
Telephone: 01903 265824 (fundraising), Email: fundraising@stbh.org.uk
Website: www.stbh.org.uk Registered charity no 256789
CHESTNUT TREE HOUSE
Chestnut Tree House children’s hospice
Chestnut Tree House is the only children’s hospice in Sussex and cares for children and young adults from 0-19 years of age with progressive life-limiting and life-threatening illnesses from all over the county.
Completed in 2003, the hospice provides a ‘home from home’ environment with 10 children’s bedrooms plus 8 family rooms, a wet and dry play area, computer and music rooms, a multi sensory room and hydrotherapy pool. The house is set in beautiful gardens within an area of outstanding natural beauty.
There are potentially 400 families with life-limited children in Sussex. Chestnut Tree House offers support for the whole family including psychological support, care in bereavement therapy, end of life and respite care and sibling support.
It costs approximately £2 million per year to provide our care services. Families are not charged for their care and the hospice receives hardly any government funding at all, so it relies completely on the generosity, help and support of the people of Sussex.
Contact: Chestnut Tree House, Dover Lane, Near Arundel, West Sussex, BN18 9PX
Telephone: 01903 871820 (fundraising), Email: fundraising@chestnut-tree-house.org.uk
Website: www.chestnut-tree-house.org.uk Registered charity no 256789
QUEEN ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL HOME
In this our 90th Anniversary year, the Queen Alexandra Hospital Home continues to build on our reputation for excellent nursing and rehabilitation care of our ex-Service men and women, who we help to live as actively and independently as possible, in a caring, friendly environment they can think of as their home.
Whether their physical disability is a result of conflict, peace-keeping missions, or an injury or illness sustained since leaving HM Armed Forces, all former Service personnel of any age and from any part of the country are welcome for both long term residential and short term respite care.
QAHH was founded in 1919, primarily to cope with the casualties in the First World War. Now, 90 years on, our high quality care continues to underpin the value we place on these remarkable people who have served our country at some of the most difficult times.
QAHH provides an individually tailored Care Programme to meet the specific needs of each resident. Physiotherapy, occupational therapy, nursing, counseling, chapel and chaplaincy service, IT facilities, landscaped gardens, day trips and outings all forms the basis of life at the Hospital Home and encourages rehabilitation, self-development and independence.
Contact: Community Fundraising, The Queen Alexandra Hospital Home for Ex-Servicemen and Women, Boundary Road, Worthing,BN11 4LJ Telephone: 01903 218444 Fax: 01903 219151 email: www.qahh.org.uk
Registered Charity No. 1072334
STREET PASTORS
Street Pastors is an inter-denominational Church response to urban problems, engaging with people on the streets to care, listen and dialogue.
It was pioneered in London in January 2003 by Rev Les Isaac, Director of the Ascension Trust, and has seen some remarkable results, including drops in crime in areas where teams have been working. There are now over 100 teams around the United Kingdom.
Each city project is set up by Ascension Trust and run by a local coordinator with support from Ascension Trust and local churches and community groups, in partnership with Police, Council and other statutory agencies
Contact: Contact: Ginny Cassell 01903 201234 and Rev Wing Man Tsang on behalf of the Broadwater Ministers’ Faternal Street Pastors is a registered trade mark and an initiative of Ascension Trust, PO Box 3916, London SE19 1QE. www.streetpastors.org.uk.
CHRISTIANS AGAINST POVERTY
Christians Against Poverty (CAP) is a national debt counselling charity with a network of over 100 local church-based centres. CAP offers hope and a solution for anyone in debt through its unique, in-depth service.
CAP aims to show God’s love in action by providing sustainable poverty relief through debt counselling advice and practical help. CAP’s unique ‘hands on’ approach empowers people to help themselves out of poverty and be released from the fear, oppression and worry generated by overwhelming debts. Their service teaches clients vital budgetting skills that will last a lifetime.
John Kirkby started CAP in 1996 with a £10 donation, and the aim is to have at least one centre in every major town & city by 2021.
Christians in Worthing are working together to launch a CAP centre during Councillor Noel Atkins mayoral year and he has kindly chosen CAP Worthing as one of his designated charities.
Contact: Rev Graham Jefferson, New Life Church, Jubilee Hall, Greenland Road, Worthing
Tel No. 01903 262313
Please make any donations payable to the “Mayor’s Charity Fund”. Receipts will be sent on request. Raffle prizes small or large always welcome!
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