Phenomenal £38,000 raised at Colour Run
In a burst of colour and joy, 718 participants gathered at Taunton Racecourse for the our hospice Colour Run, raising more than £38,000 on Saturday 18 May.
Updates about our hospice, as well as testimonies about our care from families, patients and friends.
In a burst of colour and joy, 718 participants gathered at Taunton Racecourse for the our hospice Colour Run, raising more than £38,000 on Saturday 18 May.
"You all lifted a weight off of our shoulders and gave us time to be a family, to enjoy our time with him and find our joy.”
Karen, from Shapwick near Glastonbury was the lucky winner and has been playing since 2017 with just one weekly ticket. She started playing the Weekly Prize Draw as a way to give back to the hospice after St Margaret’s cared for her late mother and her sister.
This campaign celebrates charity shops up and down the length of the country demonstrating that they offer so much more than the regular high street shopping experience!
"Some days I can do things, other days I can’t. That’s why Sunflower Centre has meant so much to me."
"The team has helped me to accept my illness and empowered me so I can live as well as I can, for as long as I can.”
“The only way I can describe St Margaret’s is that it was an oasis of calmness for us all at an extremely difficult time."
St Margaret’s Hospice is joining with other hospices and health providers across the UK to celebrate National Complementary Therapy Week from March 20 to March 25.
"When you’re living with a terminal illness, you are so focused on your illness that you don’t really get to have ‘me time’, but the Sunflower Centre gives that to you. You are just yourself in there, not somebody’s Mum or somebody’s wife but just you."