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"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.”

"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."

"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."

"Making a will and leaving a gift to the hospice is a great way to have some control over your life and your choices, and support future generations of your family, and families in your community so they can get the support they need at the end of their lives.”

“The look on someone’s face you have helped them makes it all worth it and it’s wonderful to know that all of the money we raise goes to such a great cause.”

“I love volunteering at the Chard shop, the team of staff and volunteers there is absolutely amazing."

"It was the hospice that got him to the wedding, the hospice that looked after him in those days during the illness, and I will be forever grateful for all the people that cared for him."