Trust Fundraising
Your trust can help us to give more patients in our area the choice to be cared for and, if they wish, to die at home. Contact us today about how we can work together.
Iain Rennie Hospice at Home (IRHH) is a registered charity providing specialist palliative care to adults and children with life limiting illnesses living in the Chilterns area. Although we only receive 9% of our funding from the NHS, our services are provided free of charge and include specialist nursing care and family and bereavement support.
In 2010 we will care for our 10,000th patient. The demand for our service is increasing each year and this year, our 25th Anniversary year, we expect to care for over 1,000 patients.
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RAF Benevolent Fund supports IRHH nurses
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Regional Director of the RAF Benevolent Fund, PAUL HEWSON (2nd from left), presents a cheque for £24,636 to IRHH's Director of Fundraising Gillian Barnett, Director of Nursing Sue Varvel , Chief Executive Robert Breakwell and volunteer Trusts Fundraiser Hilary Derbyshire. The cheque was a grant towards the nursing care we provide to members of the RAF family across the local area, plus funding for new syringe drivers which enable patients to have their vital drugs injected automatically at home.
Sue Varvel said: "We are so very grateful to the RAF Benevolent Fund for their continued support of our work locally, and for funding our appeal for more syringe drivers. The money will make a huge difference to our patients and their families, who rely on our nurses to allow them the choice of remaining at home with a terminal illness."
Children's nurse funded by Roald Dahl Foundation
Thanks to a grant from The Roald Dahl Foundation in 2009, the Iain Rennie Pepper Children's Nursing team has benefitted from funding for a new post until 2011.
This new post will help the team to provide improved support to our young patients and their families as they go through the 'transition process' from children's to adult services.
The Foundation awarded funding for a range of specialist nursing posts throughout the country with a specific remit in the areas of children with epilepsy, neurological conditions and haematological conditions, as were the wishes of Roald Dahl himself.
Pepper Children's Nursing Team Leader, Sonya O'Leary, added: "The funding from the Roald Dahl Foundation has allowed us to recruit a new nurse to our team; Gwyneth Wray (see left), which is most welcome because we have been getting steadily busier over the last year."
The post will be funded by The Roald Dahl Foundation for two years, after which we will be looking for a new funder.
What a difference trust support makes!
The support of our trusts and foundations is crucial to ensure that IRHH can help the increasing number of patients who need our care and support. You can choose to support a specific project, or area of work or you can allow us to use the donation where the need is greatest.
Whatever you choose, you can be sure that your donation will make a difference to our patients, carers and their families in the Chilterns. In turn, we ensure that we keep your trust updated in the format you prefer. We'll use your own reporting form, provide you with updates and reports, set up regular meetings and phone calls, send you invitations to events, and organise visits to the projects you're supporting.
How your trust could help
We have a small but dedicated team who will help find a suitable IRHH project or programme that could directly benefit from trust support. Whatever the size of your trust, your money will help us to provide better care for more people:
| Keeping our nurses on the road | |
| £100 helps fund a Health Care Assistant for a day | |
| £150 pays for an Iain Rennie nurse for a day | |
| £1,050 pays for an Iain Rennie nurse for one week | |
| £2,100 pays for an Iain Rennie nurse for one fortnight | |
| £4,200 pays for an Iain Rennie nurse for one month | |
| £22,182 pays for the salary of an Iain Rennie nurse (the largest expense in employing a nurse) | |
| Bereavement Service | |
| £100 will help towards the ongoing costs for both our adult and children support group | |
| Complementary Therapists | |
| £20-£50 treatment prices | |
| Vital nursing equipment | |
| £15 would pay for a chillow (a cooling pillow) | |
| £30 would pay for an ear thermometer | |
| £60 would pay for a blood pressure monitor | |
| £65 would pay for 20 stethoscopes | |
| £300 is the average training cost of keeping each Iain Rennie nurse up-to-date with best practice | |
| £870 buys a syringe driver to make patients' final days more comfortable | |
Get in touch
If you would like more information, are a trustee, have links with a trust or are considering setting up a trust, we would love to hear from you so we can work together to provide better care for more people living in the Chilterns.
Contact Stella Wilkinson on 01442 890222 or email fundraising@irhh.org
