Local hospice celebrates Queen’s Jubilee in style

Florence Nightingale Hospice staff, volunteers and patients celebrated the Queen’s Jubilee with a garden party at the Hospice yesterday.

The Hospice team were thrilled to be able to open up their doors again after the restrictions of the past couple of years.

Tracey Batt, Day Hospice Lead says ‘I thought the Platinum Jubilee would be a lovely way of bringing the whole of Florence Nightingale Hospice together again.  Whilst we’ve held similar events in the past with music and ice cream in the garden, this is our first event of this kind.”

The party was planned by the Hospice team with help from Day Hospice patients to make bunting and gift bags.  Cakes, bakes and sandwiches were prepared and donated by many volunteers and ice cream was provided for all attendees by The Works.

The Hospice team and their patients have been through a very difficult couple of years and this event is a major step forward in opening back up again, ahead of the resumption of some of their previous services which have been on hold, such as the Breathe Well clinic, for non-cancer patients with specific chronic breathing difficulties.