A brand-new hospice service to honour local patients’ wishes to stay at home at the end of life is set to be launched, thanks to incredible community generosity. We are set to create a Hospice at Home rapid response service. The initial funding to launch the service, and the amount needed to cover its first-year […]
Pru Kirby and Diane Bradwell – who both live in Bakewell – have been ‘very good friends for a very long time,’ and it was a mutual friend that inspired them to get involved in volunteering to support their local hospice charity. Pru, who originally hails from Dorset, has lived in the Derbyshire Dales for […]
Ruth Brown became a member of our board of trustees in 2021, following her retirement as the manager of our Hospice at Home service, and a nursing career spanning almost two decades. Here, in her own words, Ruth explains how she is ‘very proud’ to be a trustee for the charity, and what she gets […]
Memories and fond recollections of a much respected and devoted Chapel-en-le-Frith hospice supporter are being shared after the sad news of her death. Doris Turck, the lifelong companion of Reverend Betty Packham, Blythe House Hospicecare’s founder, died peacefully on Friday 10th February, aged 88. Doris was a devoted volunteer at Blythe House since its inception […]
Blythe House Hospicecare and Helen’s Trust is excited to announce the launch of its brand new Business Club, bringing together local businesses as one, to focus on supporting end of life care within the communities their workforce and customers live in. Becca Gregory, fundraising manager at the hospice, says: ‘The Business Club will enable us […]
Amelia Star Furness, from Chapel-en-le-Frith, features alongside Blythe Bear on our posters to help promote #GoBlue, our fundraising campaign to get people involved in raising vital funds for hospice services by ‘going blue’ from the 20th to 26th March. Amelia was just four-years-old when her best friend, Kaiden tragically died of leukaemia and pneumonia, aged […]
Lizzie Murray became the hospice’s care coordinator in August 2022, working closely with eight GP surgeries across the High Peak: Arden House and Sett Valley Medical Centre in New Mills; Buxton Medical Practice, Elmwood Medical Centre and Stewart Medical Centre in Buxton; Thornbrook Surgery in Chapel-en-le-Frith; Goyt Valley Medical Practice in Whaley Bridge; and Hartington […]
We are on the lookout for new trustees to support our services. We provide care and support to patients and families across the High Peak, Derbyshire Dales and North East Derbyshire. We’re seeking to recruit passionate and committed new, voluntary trustees to our board, to help shape future strategy and direction for growth. Tim Mourne, […]
Margaret Charlton has volunteered in a range of roles at Blythe House for over a decade. Here, in her own words, Margaret, from Buxton, explains that ‘variety is the spice of life’… ‘“Go and have a look at Blythe House Hospicecare” several people said to me back in 2012. I had just retired after 30 […]
We are hoping to raise thousands of pounds for local patient care with a scheme for residents to recycle their real Christmas trees. Blythe House Hospicecare and Helen’s Trust is hosting the Christmas ‘treecycle’ event in January 2023, alongside Simon Dowell from S ‘N’ S Trees in New Mills – with sponsorship for the campaign […]
