St Helena

February is Payroll Giving Month, celebrating one of the simplest and most tax-efficient ways to support charities doing vital work. Payroll Giving allows employees to donate straight from their salary before tax — meaning your gift goes further at no extra cost to you. Even a small monthly donation can have a big, lasting impact. We’re incredibly grateful to everyone who already supports us through Payroll Giving, and we’d love more workplaces to get involved. If you’re an employer or corporate partner, Payroll Giving can be a brilliant way to engage staff, support causes they care about, and amplify your social impact — especially when combined with matched giving.

Hero Run is family-friendly fun run is the perfect way to celebrate heroes of all kinds! From sporting stars and superheroes to nurses, doctors, and the people you love. Dress up as your hero and come join the fun in support of St Helena Hospice! Register here: https://bit.ly/4rfrP7u

Step up for St Helena Hospice 🧡 Pier to Pier is back on 17th May 2026 – our biggest and boldest event of the year. Every step between Clacton and Walton helps local families facing incurable illness. Walk, remember, and make a difference. Register today: https://bit.ly/3YXS8mH

As we move forward in 2026, have you thought about your nominated charity for this year? Would you like to host a fundraising event for St Helena or take part in one of our events or challenges? We have many opportunities to be one of our sponsors at our events and would love to hear from local businesses who are interested in partnering with us. St Helena Hospice pride themselves on forming positive, engaging and heart-warming relationships with all our sponsors where we can give you promotion across our social media channels and website, as well as brand visibility across marketing and on the day at events.   Want to know more? Click here to find out more ways on how you can partner with St Helena this year. https://lnkd.in/eQJatduA

We held 964 people last financial year whose loved ones were at their most vulnerable 🧡 (St Helena Impact Report 2024/25) 📷 Julian Claxton

Our hospice care continues to be shaped by the kindness, creativity and generosity of people across our community. ⠀ ⠀ ✨ A huge thank you to Annoshka and the team at Caramel Browne Hair & Beauty Salon, who collaborated with The Wellbeing Clinic to host an Aesthetics & Wellbeing Event in aid of St Helena Hospice, held in memory of the wonderful Alex Barker. Their charity raffle raised an incredible £955.⠀ ⠀ 🎓 Thank you to the students at Colchester Institute, whose BTEC Level 3 Business Diploma students raised an amazing £821.10 through two fundraising events!⠀ ⠀ 🎅 The incredible team at Right at Home Colchester & District hosted a Christmas Extravaganza for their clients, raising £549 for St Helena Hospice. This marks their second event in aid of the hospice this year, and we are so grateful for their continued support.⠀ ⠀ 🎟️ Thank you to everyone at Rose Calendars , who once again took the time to run a Christmas Raffle in support of the hospice, raising £300. Your ongoing generosity is truly appreciated.⠀ ⠀ 🥾 Thank you to Penny Coy, Penny Baxter and all at In Your Stride – Colchester, for their fantastic fundraising efforts, including their unique ‘Plottery’ at Highwoods Country Park and many cake sales. Their kindness and generosity raised an incredible £1,270!⠀ 🍰 Thank you to Cahill Design Consultants, where the team organised a fantastic bake-off and Euro Sweepstake in support of St Helena Hospice, raising £114.22!⠀ ⠀ 🎄 A big thank you to our friends at Fred Smiths Christmas Trees, who provided gorgeous Fir Christmas trees to spread joy to patients and families. Thank you for thinking of us and your continued support. 🧸 Thank you to St Helena Champion Dilly and Wivenhoe’s Greyhound Pub, where Dilly’s handmade animals helped raise £55 for the hospice. Muffin has now found a new name, a new owner and a new home - thank you for your kindness and creativity!⠀ ⠀ Together, these acts of kindness and community spirit help us continue supporting local people and families with compassion, dignity and care. 🧡

There is a lot of news right now about the financial state of hospices nationally and we want to reassure you that, after the difficult decision over the summer to have to reduce some of our clinical services, St Helena is now in a financially stable position. We continue to be here for people across north east Essex when they need specialist hospice care. We want to thank you for your continued amazing support in helping us to be here for local people who face dying, death and bereavement.  Hospices have recently been awarded further money as part of the government’s capital funding scheme. Whilst we welcome this, it remains a one-off pot of money that can only be spent on things like building work and new IT systems. It is not allowed to be spent on our nurses' salaries or funding our clinical services where the need is greatest. We continue to stand with our colleagues in other hospices up and down the UK who are struggling to keep their lights on. We want to see long-term sustainable funding for palliative and end of life care, with annual uplifts that at least match inflation and wider cost increases, so that end of life care is treated the same way the NHS funds healthcare at all other stages in life. - Dr Karen Chumbley and Kate Heslegrave, Co-Chief Executives of St Helena

If you’ve been thinking about joining a challenge to kick off 2026… pay day is the perfect nudge! We have many challenges to push yourself into something new. https://bit.ly/49ZiidB Our Half Marathon is back again for 2026 and this year it is even bigger as we’re adding a 10K race into the line up too! Will you be joining us? https://bit.ly/4a2eAQL Why not put a little of that payday boost towards something that helps you achieve your goals and makes a difference for others too?

"The 1960s were good. The ’66 World Cup was good. Used to like life, socialising and dancing, rock n roll. Used to sing on a lot of karaokes, used to love them. I was a football man, played football until I was 45." Neil's memories were recorded for our Life Stories exhibition to celebrate people beyond their diagnosis 🧡 https://lnkd.in/empmVA74

We gave care, dignity and comfort for 3,928 people living with an incurable illness last financial year, thanks to the generous support of our communities 🧡 (St Helena Impact Report 2024/25) 📷 Julian Claxton