A HOSPICE is shining a light on the vital importance gifts in Wills play to its life-changing, specialist care across Worcestershire.
St Richard’s Hospice is joining with 127 other UK hospices to highlight how gifts in Wills make hospice care possible, with one in six St Richard’s patients being cared for thanks to such a gift over the last five years.
The This is Hospice Care campaign shows how hospices help support whole communities through their hardest days, and how people in those communities can make giving back part of their legacy. The campaign is being facilitated by Hospice UK.
St Richard’s Hospice spokesperson Abby Holliday said: “Gifts in Wills are critical to hospices like us. Every single day, someone in Worcestershire receives care that wouldn’t exist without the generosity of people who choose to support hospice care in their Will.
“A gift in your Will to a hospice doesn’t require parting with your money today, anyone can leave a legacy. And gifts of any size can make a difference.”
Carole Robins was moved to leave a gift to St Richard’s in her Will after witnessing the care given to her beloved husband, Larry, and other members of her family.
Larry, who was supported at the hospice’s Living Well Centre and at home before he died in 2024, also left a gift in his Will to St Richard’s.
And, in 2007, Carole’s uncle was supported by St Richard’s, which inspired her mum and aunt to leave gifts in their Wills to the hospice too.
Carole, who volunteers at the hospice’s donations processing warehouse, added: “Larry loved going to the hospice. The minute he went through the doors he would have a massive grin on his face. It was somewhere that he could be Larry.
“There were times I was lost, I didn’t know what I was going to do, but I knew I could ring the hospice and there would be somebody there to help me.
“Leaving a gift in my Will is a way for me to say thank you for everything St Richard’s did for Larry and I, and for my mum, aunt and uncle as well.”
Visit www.strichards.org.uk/gift-in-will/ for more details.
