LOOSE CHANGE CAN HELP HOSPICE

Pendleside Hospice and Rosehill Post Office are encouraging you to lighten your purses and pockets and get digging down the back of the sofa for all your loose change with their Penny Trail Appeal.

Just launched, this appeal encourages everyone to donate all the coppers and loose change to the hospice with the aim of collecting enough to complete a trail from Rosehill Post Office to the hospice.

The photo to the left shows Rosehill Post Office Postmaster, Mr Steve Harvey with some of the coins that are being collected for his Penny Trail Appeal

If the change collected is in just pennies then each mile would raise £792 and with the distance from the Post Office to the Hospice being around 6 miles the hospice hopes to raise in excess of £4,000.

The hospice have special money bags that can be collected from hospice reception or from Rosehill Post Office and once filled with loose change can be taken back to the hospice or the Post Office and exchanged with another.

The money raised from this initiative will help the hospice provide care to local people suffering from cancer and other life limiting illnesses.  The cost of providing care increases each year in response to demand for services.  Current annual running costs exceed £1.8 million, of which, more than £1.4 million has to be raised from fundraising events and donations.

Rosehill Post Office have been fundraising for Pendleside Hospice for many years now mainly from the sale of second hand books.  Postmaster, Steve Harvey has now raised over £12,000 for the hospice from his customers that come from far and wide to pick up a bargain from the very extensive selection of books on offer.

Hospice Fundraising Manager, Mrs Kaye Bartle said “We all have lots of loose change in our purses and pockets that we tend to disregard as not having much value and in most cases tends to be a nuisance by being bulky and heavy, however by donating it to the hospice every ones loose change together really can make a huge difference to us.”

If you would like to collect your loose change for Pendleside Hospice then collecting bags can be collected from hospice reception or from Rosehill Post Office, large organisations that want multiple bags can contact the hospice on 01282 440120.

For further information please contact Kaye Bartle at Pendleside Hospice on 01282 440120 or
Mr Steve Harvey at Rosehill PO on 01282 422106

Do you have any donations of small, clean, saleable items for Auction?

K.S.C Club, Yorkshire Street, Burnley are holding a Charity Auction in aid of Pendleside Hospice & Handicapped Children. 

Collections can be made by calling Terry Macmahon on 01282 423482

The auction will take place on Sunday 15th March 2009 and view from 12 noon. Auction commences from 1.00pm.