Bright and warm, the yellow sunflower featured in our logo represents the compassion and warmth that sits alongside the expert care we provide to patients and their families every day.
From wearing a favourite yellow jumper or adding a sunflower to an outfit, to baking lemon cakes or decorating a workplace, we want to see splashes of our signature colour appearing across Somerset.
And if yellow isn’t your colour, there are plenty of other ways to get behind your local hospice this month. You could volunteer your time, help with a yellow bucket collection, donate pre-loved clothes or furniture to one of St Margaret’s charity shops or make a donation towards its care.
Wear It Yellow coincides with Hospice Care Week, 5 -11 October, when St Margaret’s will join more than 200 hospices across the UK in shining a light on hospice care and why its future matters.
This year’s Hospice Care Week message is ‘Don’t leave hospice care to chance’ – and St Margaret’s is asking its community to stand with their local hospice by wearing yellow, spreading the word and making a donation.
Yellow means a lot to us at St Margaret’s. Our sunflower is recognised by people across Somerset, and for us, it represents the compassion and warmth that are so important to hospice care.Kerry Baillie, Community Partnerships Manager
Hospice care is about helping people live as fully and comfortably as possible for as long as possible, while supporting the people closest to them too. We think yellow captures something of that – the importance of living with joy and dying with dignity.
This October, we’d love to see Somerset blooming yellow. It could be something as simple as a yellow t-shirt or hair accessory, decorating your workplace, getting your club involved or baking something yellow. We hope you’ll take snaps and share them on social media to help us shine a light on hospice care, as well as making a small donation to help us deliver our care.”
Every donation helps St Margaret’s provide specialist care and support to people across Somerset. Just £5 could pay for art supplies used in a counselling session with a child who has lost their parent, while £25 could help pay for an hour of nursing care for a patient.
Supporters are encouraged to photograph their yellow creations, outfits and decorations and share them on social media, tagging St Margaret’s Hospice Care and using #WearItYellow and #HospiceCareWeek.
