“We didn’t have to worry about caring for him. We just got to be there and enjoy him.”

 

“I saw my role as supporting the staff who were providing direct care and providing the environment in which they could prosper at the Hospice.”

 

Setting the foundation of the Hospice was “a great privilege.”

 

“It went from a germ of an idea to being started and then won an award.”

 

“It’s like being somebody’s hairdresser; patients will tell you things that they wouldn’t tell anyone else.”

 

“We did take the ‘d’ out of fundraising!”

 

“You get so much more than the medical assistance.”

 

“An important figurehead in the early Hospice story.”

 

“I’ve been a stormtrooper, Princess Leia, Olaf, Norburn the Hospice mascot, and a Xmas Pudding.”

 

“Vital to the success of the Hospice.”

 

“I didn’t quite expect it, but it has been fabulous ever since.”

 

“The Hospice is a special place, and I think that is because it was set up with compassion for other people.”

 

“My heart was always on the ward.”

 

“I said I wanted a hat, two guns, a sheriff’s badge and a ride in a Porsche.”

 

“I get a lot of job satisfaction from helping a patient with no appetite to be encouraged to even eat just a small amount of food.”

 

“Girls Night Out started for me on a train in India.”

 

“You hope that your visits have achieved something and you have given something of yourself to make that person’s life as comfortable as possible.”

 

“His funeral did not give him the send-off he deserved, so as a family, we put this right and gave him a concert with all the music he loved.”

 

“The death of my own Gran at the Hospice has profoundly affected me as a nurse.”

 

Our greatest champion who worked with a passion and enthusiasm that was infectious.