A Cumbrian hospice charity has been awarded over £63,000 by the Allerdale GDF community partnership.
Hospice at Home West Cumbria will now be able to provide anticipatory grief, emotional wellbeing and bereavement support thanks to the partnership’s community investment funding.
Services available to be offered will also include complementary therapies, one-to-one sessions and group support.
Claire Jenkinson, family and bereavement services team leader said: “We are incredibly grateful to the Allerdale GDF Community Partnership for helping us to provide hospice support services to more patients and their families.
“Family and Bereavement Services and Complementary Therapies make a huge difference to the lives of those affected by palliative illness and we are thrilled that Allerdale GDF Community Partnership recognise the importance of this work.”
The Allerdale GDF community partnership provides access to £1 million in community investment funding per year from the GDF developer as discussions progress around whether a Geological Disposal Facility could be right for Allerdale.
A GDF is a highly engineered facility designed to safely and securely dispose of ‘higher activity’ radioactive waste, deep underground.
Hospice at Home West Cumbria is the only charity and hospice organisation providing free bespoke emotional wellbeing and bereavement support in the palliative care sector across the region.
The funding will help deliver care at their Therapy and Information Centre in Workington, in people’s homes and local hospital wards.
The Chair of Allerdale GDF community partnership, Mary Bradley, said: “It means so much to the Partnership to be able to award funding to Hospice at Home West Cumbria.
“Every single member of the team there are passionate and dedicated and are providing genuine care and services that are critical to the wellbeing of our community.
“Hospice at Home West Cumbria have been there for so many of us in our time of need and any one of us could find ourselves needing them at any time. It’s an honour to support them.”
