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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. The RLSB has a long and distinguished history in helping blind and partially sighted people to achieve their goals in education, training and employment. Today, they run a specialist nursery school and college from their educational campus in Sevenoaks, and an Adult Support Services from Central London.
One of the oldest charities for blind and partially sighted people, the Royal London Society for the Blind (RLSB) was established by Thomas Mark Lucas in the 19th century to teach the blind to read.
Today the RLSB continues this pioneering work through specialist education, training and employment opportunities for people with a range of visual impairments.
Increasingly, those we support represent some of the most vulnerable people in society today, including those with physical disabilities and learning difficulties.
Our educational provision delivers a challenging programme of education to blind and partially-sighted children. Our exciting new farm project, Hollybank Farm was opened by the Duchess of Gloucester, our Patron, in 2009.
An activity-based curriculum enables young learners to acquire practical skills to develop their self-confidence and foster a spirit of independence, enabling easier transition from adolescence to adulthood.
Groundbreaking, community-based services for the visually-impaired in London and the South East ensure that teenagers and adults have access to the same activities and employment opportunities as everyone else.
The RLSB also works with blind and partially-sighted pupils placed in mainstream schools, providing Braille and mobility training to give them greater confidence and achieve their full potential to live independently.