Giles Peeters will be swapping runways for an ultra big challenge this weekend in aid of St Luke’s, having already raised a staggering £14,500 so far!
At St Luke’s we appreciate our wonderful staff and volunteers every single day of the year, and always aim to support their health and wellbeing.
But this Christmas we thought they deserved a very special thank you on behalf of all the patients and families who have benefited from their compassionate care and hard work in 2023.
Our CEO George Lillie and his senior management colleagues Sue Cannon, Mike Dukes, Adrienne Murphy and Tricia Davis have been out and about delivering personal gifts for each member of our superb team.
A bright and colourful Christmas card, designed and generously shared by our patron Brian Pollard, showing a wintry Plymouth Hoe full of ice skaters, was first out of the bag. Nestled in the envelope was one of our unique Christmas robin pin badges, bringing the good cheer and spirit of remembrance these hardy little birds represent.
The icing on the cake was a colourful bespoke gift pack containing three different flavours of fudge, lovingly handmade by the Devon Fudge Company. Chief executive George even popped into the company’s Plymouth kitchen to give the copper pot a festive stir.
Our healthcare assistants, nurses and doctors are, of course, the incredible individuals on the vital frontline delivering specialist care to patients and families, but we never forget there’s also an army of special people behind them who make it possible for our services to keep running.
Our retail teams, receptionists, patient and family support team, fundraising and event organisers, maintenance workers, finance wizards, educators, cooks and domestics, and many more, all make an essential contribution that deserves to be celebrated.
After stopping by our shops on Plymouth’s Barbican to deliver gifts, George said: “It’s really nice for me to get out and meet the shop staff and volunteers, and it’s important for them to be recognised for all the fantastic work they do.”
One thing is certain – that acknowledgement won’t stop when the New Year turns. All through 2024, we’ll be demonstrating how much our staff and volunteers are valued with an ongoing package of benefits that includes Simply Health cashback, wellbeing initiatives, mental health support, free independent financial advice, and yoga sessions.
If you think you’d like to join the St Luke’s team, check out the current vacancies or visit our volunteering page.
St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth’s end of life Urgent Care Team ventured across the Tamar last week to visit their first patient at home in East Cornwall as part of a pilot service running until the end of March 2024.
We followed senior health care assistant Bee Daniels and nurse Jo Davis as they went to meet a very grateful Paul Treeby and his daughter, Jude Kitt.
It’s less than half a kilometre from one side to the other but crossing the Tamar Bridge represented a significant milestone for St Luke’s pilot East Cornwall Urgent Care Service.
Until last week it had been a bridge too far for the hospice’s “at home” teams who already clock up more than 80,000 miles a year taking our specialist care to the doorsteps of patients in Plymouth and surrounding areas of West and South Devon.
In a ground-breaking move, a four-month trial service has been launched to visit end of life patients and their families at home in a largely rural stretch from Saltash to Torpoint and the Rame Peninsula, up the Tamar Valley towards Callington and Launceston and across to Liskeard.
Patients in this area have benefited from St Luke’s care at Derriford Hospital and in the charity’s specialist unit at Turnchapel, but there has previously been no service available to support them either to remain at home or to care for them on discharge from hospital.
Senior healthcare assistant Bee and nurse Jo were thrilled and proud to be pioneers on a mission to make a positive difference to people’s lives, working closely with NHS healthcare colleagues across the water.
“The whole team are really excited to go there,” said Bee, in the driving seat as they passed the Welcome to Cornwall sign in the centre of the bridge. “It’s another big area for us to cover and it’s going to be a lot more rural nursing, but we’re all up for the challenge.”
That stalwart can-do attitude certainly came in handy as they turned off the A38 to snake through the Cornish countryside to meet Paul Treeby, the team’s first patient on the service’s first day.
Beneath bleak black clouds and intermittent heavy downpours, Bee drove carefully, bumping along increasingly muddy lanes until she hit Tarmac with grass growing down the middle, her view hemmed in by high hedges on either side.
Suddenly a beautiful rainbow and a glimmer of blue sky appeared in the distance beckoning Bee and Jo to one of the small farming communities that pepper the hinterlands between Liskeard and Callington.
“It’s a typical journey, really,” said Jo. “We’re based in the city, but we have a lot of isolated people to visit out in the countryside. We keep going come rain or shine, grass or gravel!”
St Luke’s Urgent Care is a healthcare assistant led service, so Jo wouldn’t normally be out visiting patients herself, except when there’s an urgent need for her nursing expertise.
“I put myself down for the first shift so that I can see what the challenges are and support the team while they are getting used to the area,” she explained.
With the satnav out of range, they managed to arrive in roughly the right place, but Paul’s tucked-away home wasn’t easy to find in the pouring rain, despite his instructions. Luckily, he lives in a friendly hamlet where everyone knows everyone, and hardy folk who walk their dogs in all weathers were eager to point Bee in the right direction.
There was an almost palpable sense of relief as Paul’s daughter, Jude Kitt, opened the door of her father’s bungalow and, along with black Labrador Harvey, welcomed Bee and Jo inside.
Any apprehension Paul had felt before their arrival vanished immediately as they asked him gently about himself, how he was feeling and what they could do to help.
“We build a rapport with patients very, very quickly,” explained Jo. “Going in on a daily basis you can quickly see how someone is and if there is escalation of symptoms you can deal with that. The patient can get what they need from us in a timely manner. We make sure everything is as easy as possible.”
Their role is also to liaise with the other health professionals involved in his care, including his GP and the NHS Cornwall palliative care nurse who gives Paul and Jude advice over the phone.
Paul, 75, has been living with prostate cancer for 10 years. After an operation, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, he was put on long-term chemotherapy to control the disease. But, in July this year – just a month after his dear wife Elizabeth’s death from leukaemia – Paul’s oncology team told him that the treatment had run its course and there was nothing more they could do.
It means the world to him to now be able to spend his remaining time at home in the community he knows and loves, with reassuring support from St Luke’s.
“I’ve been a country lad all my life. I was brought up on the farm. I was born at Blunts, down the road. Dad was killed in a tractor accident and Mother had three of us to look after so she took a job as a housekeeper for another farm at Menheniot. That was tough, but you just got on with it. When I was old enough, I went out to work and started digger driving, which I loved,” he said.
Paul and Elizabeth brought up their family on a smallholding near Trewidland – a tiny hamlet between Liskeard and Looe – and he made a living operating diggers for several local companies.
“We had around 40 acres and kept sheep through the winter and cut hay in summer. When we couldn’t cope with that any more, my son Tim took it on and bought us this bungalow to retire to.”
Paul was quick to praise Bee and Jo at the end of their visit.
“I was very impressed with St Luke’s team. It’s good to have them coming in to help me with any problems I’ve got. I think it will be a big benefit having them down here in Cornwall,” he said. “I think it’s something that’s got to be done. There’s a massive demand.
“They came in and made me feel at home. They talked about my tablets, and they took me in to have a wash. It was all very relaxed and no stress. That suits me down to the ground because I don’t do well with stress. That’s why I wouldn’t want to go back to hospital again.”
Jude, who lives four miles away at Pensilva, has been juggling her own family life with caring for her dad, with no real chance to grieve for her mother, who was the first person she would usually have talked things through with.
“It feels like a huge relief already. Dad deserves the best care and now we have got somebody coming every day who can help us. I feel like I have a team behind me now,” she said.
“The main thing is the continuation of people coming in so they will get to know Dad and recognise any day to day deterioration. I feel like it’s all been on me, and it’s been a bit overwhelming at times.”
Jo added: “There must be a lot of families who have been struggling up until now and it’s good to be able to tell them there is help on the way.”
The final word goes to Bee, who said: “Dying is a massive part of life. Everyone deserves to have the best death they can have, and we can help with that journey.”
He was the breakfast DJ on Plymouth Sound radio, playing all the hits for you from the local studio. Now Peter Greig is saying farewell to the incredible collection of CDs he used for his broadcasts and live club sets over the decades and he’s donating them to benefit St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth.
The bright good morning voice of the city for more than 20 years, from 1975 through to the 1990s, he’s letting go of 2,000 albums, featuring artists and tunes from the Swinging Sixties onwards.
“There are some of my absolute favourites in there, like Fleetwood Mac and it’s quite a wrench to part with them, but I’ve decided they all have to go,” said Peter, 77, who is hoping they will be of interest to collectors, either as a complete set or individually, and raise a decent amount for the charity.
“The discs are all like new, not dusty or scratched – they look like they’ve just come out of the shop. It’s an eclectic musical collection, mostly artists people will know, including all-time classics like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and The Who, but some rare ones too.”
We don’t usually accept CDs for sale in our shops, but we’re making an exception for such a unique collection.
Peter wanted to do something to support St Luke’s because he had heard about the support the hospice provides for terminally ill people and their families in the local community, most poignantly his friend and fellow broadcaster Gordon Sparks, who died earlier this year.
“I always had a soft spot for Sparksy. At one time I was his boss and fundamental in training him in the mysteries of radio. I know St Luke’s helped him a great deal. It was very tragic that he died, like too many others, at such an early age.”
Originally amassing a library of 1500 vinyl singles and 1500 albums, Peter sold those to the record shop that used to be in the old Drake Circus, after he’d switched his allegiance to the new concept of CDs in the early 1980s.
“Some people thought that vinyl was better because you could hear all the scratches while the records were playing, but I liked CDs. A lot of them were sent to Plymouth Sound by record companies when they wanted to promote a single or album,” he explained. “Sometimes we had so many packets of CDs to open it felt like Christmas Day. So, quite a few of them were free promo copies and some of them are quite rare.”
Another personal favourite track of Peter’s was Eva Cassidy’s cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Songbird, the title track from her album, released in 1998, two years after her death from cancer.
“I kept were the ones I liked or thought I could use on my programmes. But I didn’t necessarily play music I liked all the time – if I had I wouldn’t have been very good at my job!”
Peter’s monster CD collection also used to enjoy an airing when he played his highly popular mobile disco sets at clubs like Castaways and the Top Rank Suite on Union Street at weekends.
“Then in the mid to late 90s I used to do a Super Sixties night at the Matchroom Suite at Colebrook and hundreds used to turn up. It was quite a buzz to go down there when it was a sell-out with 250 people. They were all very enthusiastic and they used to like someone who knew what they were doing and had all the tunes.”
Over the years Peter interviewed a number of famous people live on air for Plymouth Sound, including former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Sir Cliff Richard and US singer Gene Pitney, as well as Sir Paul McCartney after he’d left the Beatles and was on his first fledgling tour with Wings.
Peter recalled: “Paul’s wife Linda was in the band, and they were appearing at Cornwall Coliseum. The record label rang and asked if I’d like to do an interview and of course I said ‘Yes, please’. They gave me tickets to the show too.
“People tell me I was at Plymouth Sound at the very best time, and they definitely were the best years, when local radio was at its peak.”
For the past few years, the CDs have been taking up a large amount of shelf space at the Plympton home Peter shares with his wife, Versy.
“She’s never complained about all the CDs, but I think she’s going to convert my office where the shelves were into a spare room now,” added Peter, who these days finds it easier to stream music via his phone and play tracks through his sound system.
Peter’s CDs are currently at St Luke’s Western Approach store and can be viewed by appointment. If not sold as a complete collection, they will be distributed for sale across our shops. We’re open to offers, so if you are interested in, please get in touch – email ebay@stlukes-hospice.org.uk
Punk drummer Dave Whatmore was thrilled to be right at the heart of the action when his friends staged a unique farewell gig in his honour.
It’s not often someone gets to attend their own send-off, but the best, and only, seat in the house was reserved for Dave at the punk all-dayer held on last Saturday (14 October) at The Junction pub in Plymouth.
Featuring some of his favourite local bands, and some from farther away, it wasn’t only an epic party that everyone who came will never forget, it also raised more than £2,000 to split between his chosen charities – St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth and Macmillan.
“There’s no point having a party while you’re lying in a coffin, you’ve got to do it before you go,” said Dave, 58, a familiar face on the Plymouth music scene, who has a terminal cancer diagnosis and is being supported at home by St Luke’s.
“We held a ‘sorry to see you go’ charity gig at the Junction on Mutley Plain, a going away party type of thing. It was a nice little tribute and nice to be there and see it, rather than them doing it while I’m dead. A lot of people don’t get that chance.
“I couldn’t have wanted anything better than that. It was great fun and very nice of them to do it. There were so many people there. I sat in my seat with a circle of protectors around me. I knew pretty much everybody there. A lot of people I hadn’t seen for 30 or 40 years. It was so nice to see everyone and for them to actually be able to come and speak to me.”
At the end of April, after an episode of acute chest pain, Dave was told that he had inoperable cancer and that he might not make it to Christmas. He took a little time to digest his prognosis before his punk rebel spirit started to kick in.
“They told me I’m probably not going to see Christmas. My reaction was to buy a ticket for next February to see a band at The Junction,” said Dave, speaking at home in St Judes, surrounded by his faithful dog Poppy, his partner Alice, her two dogs Pinky and Troy, and their little cat.
He acknowledged that it was the support of St Luke’s clinical nurse specialist Debbie Hutchinson that has encouraged and enabled him to keep living in the moment and make the most out of the time he has left, to the best of his ability.
Like many people, Dave had a limited idea of what hospice care means or what to expect from St Luke’s before having a personal connection.
“I didn’t really understand what St Luke’s did and the help and love they give until I met Debbie. I thought hospice care was going in somewhere, being in a bed, shut away and you’re going to die. It isn’t anything like that.
“I get visits at home, and I get what I need to be able to do things for myself. Debbie and St Luke’s are just a phone call away if I need anything, which I have occasionally, and it’s been sorted straight away. They sorted out my medication when I would have been two days without it. Thanks to Debbie I wasn’t. I love that lady, she’s great – like a second mum. It’s a joy that there are people like Debbie and her friends who are willing to look after people and in a worse state than me.
“OK, I’m going to die at some point, but that is going to happen to us all at some time, it’s just going to be a little sooner for me than I anticipated. I’m not going to be down and angry about it. I want to enjoy what time I’ve got left and enjoy my friends because, apparently, they enjoy me.”
Immunotherapy treatment has helped Dave to feel stronger in the short term, harnessing the energy and drive to make special memories.
“I know I’m going to deteriorate; it is going to get worse and worse, but until that point, until I can’t do anything for myself, I’ll keep doing as much as I can,” added Dave, whose favourite bands of all time are Stiff Little Fingers and The Stranglers. He’s been getting out to as many gigs as he can. Just a couple of weeks ago he was able to travel to Torquay to witness PiL, another long-time favourite, in action. He also has his eye on one last outing for his own precious drum kit.
Dave’s connection with the Plymouth music scene goes back four decades. He has played drums with several popular local bands, including Mad Dog McRea in the early 1990s, Bateman and Unusual Stars. Punk is in his blood, and he has been building up a great collection of live videos from gigs he’s attended, sharing them on his YouTube channel (UPK Dave) – including his own farewell party.
Friends initially wanted to take Dave to this year’s Rebellion punk festival in Blackpool. Realising he wasn’t well enough to go they pulled out all the stops to bring the party to him and let him know how much he means to them.
Called A Gig for Spotty – Dave’s nickname inspired by the green-spotted Mohican-haired sidekick of 1980s kids’ TV hero SuperTed – it featured six bands and was organised by his mates Tom Proctor and Kevin and Alison House, with Mickey Byrne and Sweary Mark on guest DJ duties.
“It is really, really lovely. They put it all together in a couple of months. They rang up the bands and they said yes. Cult Maniax from Torrington split up 20 years ago but got back together for this gig, with two original members. We were all together back in the 1980s,” explained Dave, who used to sport his own impressive red Mohican back in the day. “One band came all the way from Blackpool and there was another band from Bristol and the others from Plymouth.”
The full 2-11pm line-up featured Bus Station Loonies, Hellwigs, Wags to Wytches, The Hate, Bad Blood and Cult Maniax.
Co-organiser Kevin House wrote on Facebook: “No words to say how proud we are of absolutely everybody connected with this and I don’t just mean the people that organised, helped, bands, the venue, I mean all of you that came and supported… The party for Dave Whatmore that was the whole reason for this, I hope we did you proud Spotty…”
The last word goes to Dave: “We did this thing, we made some money, and I chose who I wanted it to go to. I’ll be happy if it helps at least one person.”
Endless miles of water and only yourself for company can be a daunting prospect for many. But for some St Luke’s supporters, a cross channel swim is at the top of their fundraising bucket list.
Mike Goodman, from Saltash, took on the ultimate challenge of swimming across the channel for St Luke’s last week.
Mike, who you may recognise as being the manager at the Embankment Road Co-op, swam the gruelling 20.5 miles of open water between England and France all in aid of St Luke’s.
It took Mike an incredible 14 hours and 45 minutes to complete the swim.
Mike, who has always had a love of swimming, decided to take on the epic challenge after his friend and training partner, Neil Brinkworth, who had completed it himself four years earlier – raising a staggering amount for St Luke’s – gave him the push of encouragement.
He said: “I have always been a keen swimmer, starting at an early age and joining Plymouth Leander Swimming Club. I was never a fast swimmer but I enjoyed the challenge even then of distance swimming and getting my two mile badge.
“My good friend and training partner, Neil encouraged me to do the swim after we completed the channel as part of a four man relay, going on to swim from Land’s End to the Isles of Scilly as a team of six and becoming World Record holders for the fastest time, and more recently in June this year, the same team completed the North Channel, from Northern Ireland to Scotland.”
Mike, who has always been a supporter of St Luke’s – even kindly donating milk for refreshments at our most recent Open Garden – has already managed to raise over £3,200 for our patient care on his JustGiving page.
He said: “St Luke’s has been a great support to many people I know, including relatives, so I wanted to fundraise for such a great local cause.”
Swimming the channel is no easy feat, with Mike having to take on a vigorous training schedule to prepare for the big day.
“Training wise, I’ve been swimming twice a week for an hour early in the mornings, concentrating on technique as well as speed work and two sessions a week in the gym focusing on stretching, to help prevent injury and improve flexibility and range of movement. I have been sea swimming normally once a week and then more every other weekend when I’m not working full time.
“My training peaked with six-hour sea swims, or if time and weather did not permit, three hours in the pool followed by three hours in the sea the following day.”
But the training was all worth it in the end, especially when Mike was able to see the French coast on the horizon after hours of physical exertion.
“The toughest part was going through the 6/7 hour pain barrier as this was the longest time on my training swims. Once past that and up to 10 hours I knew I had passed the separation zone (mid channel) and that as minimum I was half-way, so psychologically it was all downhill from there with a decreasing amount of hours.
“The magic was seeing the French coast and being told by your crew, ‘This is your last feed,’ knowing you had less than one hour to go! My team got to swim in and film me finishing on the beach and celebrate the crossing.”
Thank you and well done to Mike for this incredible achievement. Thanks to his dedication and hard work, we can be there for even more patients and families who desperately need our care and support.
When St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth welcomed its first patients in 1982, it marked the start of a new era of more personalised and compassionate care, not only for local people living and dying with terminal illness but for countless others facing similar circumstances around the UK and overseas, thanks to the work done to share our expertise far and wide.
Teaching others what high-quality end of life care looks like remains integral to St Luke’s mission so that no-one with cancer, motor neurone disease or any other progressive, life-limiting condition needs to die alone, in pain or distress.
Steve Statham, Chief Executive of St Luke’s, said: “With people living longer, and with more complex conditions, pressure on our charity is growing year on year. That’s why it’s so important that we continue to share our knowledge and skills with others – such as staff in care homes – so that more people with terminal illness are looked after in the way that’s right for them in their last months, weeks and days of life.”
This collaborative approach is one of our hallmarks. In 2005, the forward-thinking hospice broke new ground by being the first in the UK to establish an integrated care service, joining forces with the then-Derriford Hospital and community services to provide patients with properly joined-up, high-calibre care at home, on hospital wards and at Turnchapel.
Today, we continue to provide care for the community in partnership with University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Livewell South West and Marie Curie.
Steve Statham said: “At the end of people’s lives, it matters more than ever that they are looked after as seamlessly as possible, and that is always what we strive for to help make such a difficult time for them and their families that bit easier.”
“We welcome working with Plymouth’s Integrated Care Partnership, which was launched last year so that people across the city and its surrounding areas benefit from more joined-up health and social care, helping them live well, age well and die well.”
Even working collaboratively though, as a charity we still face huge challenges in making our limited resources stretch further so we can reach more families in desperate need of medical expertise, sensitivity and kindness.
Steve Statham said: “Though much has changed since St Luke’s got started in 1982, what has not is our need for our supporters to keep on fundraising, volunteering and donating to help us continue.
“They know about the crucial difference our charity makes to families, either because of their own personal experience or because they have heard of the wonderful care we give, and we are hugely grateful for their phenomenal support over the past four decades.
“What we’re saying is, please don’t stop. We’re only going to need you more to help us weather the next 40 years. From joining in with our popular events such as Midnight Walk and Men’s Day Out to sponsoring our nurses and donating to our charity shops, there are many ways to get behind us. Please help us ensure our city continues being a kind place for people at the end of their lives.”
Combining a day of sporting fun with raising money to help support our care services within the local community is a win-win! Our recent Golf Day at Boringdon Park Golf Club raised a massive £9,403.11 with the help of our headline sponsors H M Williams Accountants and the wonderful hole sponsors.
The day included 18 holes of golf, a two-course meal and the chance to win £10,000 with a hole in one presented by professional golfer, Sammie!
Here’s a few kind words from the local businesses who made this event possible.
ADS Windows and Doors – Great charity to get involved with, an absolute pleasure to support St Luke’s and you never know when you, your family or friends may need their support.
Total Quality Recruitment – TQR are one of the region’s leading specialist Recruitment Businesses based in Plymouth (head office) and Exeter. TQR promote a partnership approach with their clients, offering an end-to-end, comprehensive service which includes temporary and permanent recruitment, careers advice, outplacement, market analysis and salary survey. TQR are multi-faceted, focusing on sourcing and placing entry to executive level candidates for varied industries. As a local business we like to support local charities. St Lukes have always been a charity of choice for TQR, simply because they’ve touched so many of our employees lives in so many ways.
Greenfield Kitchens – Green Field Kitchens are a local kitchen manufacturer and supplier of bespoke kitchens and bedroom furniture suplying to the trade and public across the Southwest, we are pleased to sponsor a local charity which in turn gives so much back to the local community and we are proud to be part of it.
Made with Maturity – “Typically when you hear of end of life care, you assume it is for the elderly, however this is not the case and we were shocked at the statistics of the younger age group who require end of life care. We wanted to support St Luke’s and the amazing work they undertake for those who require care and their families. What better way than to sponsor the golf day and enjoy the company of others who are there to support St Luke’s too.” Made with Maturity is a Devon based, award-winning Web and UX Design Agency who produce engaging websites for regional and national brands. We don’t just design beautiful, creative websites, we build digital projects that deliver long-lasting results based on solid a foundation of research, best practice and user testing. As a result, our websites are quicker, more efficient and customer focussed delivering maximum impact.
Plymouth Estates – We are so proud of the consistent high-quality lettings and property management and we remain passionate about serving our local community, with traditional values and customer care at the fore front of everything we do. When we first opened over 12 years ago, our aim was to provide an unbeatable customer experience with a clear and competitive No let No fee structure, we are just as enthusiastic to continue building on this success for many years to come. “We are very proud to support St Luke’s, a local charity that provides end of life care and support to those that need it most within the Plymouth community”.
Nash & Co Solicitors – “We took the decision a long time ago to get behind St Luke’s Hospice because end of life care is something that’s important to all of us. Most people in the firm know a family member or friend that has been treated at some time by St Luke’s and they’re just the most fantastic charity that we’re very proud to support. As headline sponsors of the Midnight Walk for the last four years, we are acutely aware of their need for fundraising to pay for the services they offer our local community, and we want to do our bit to support them.”
A&M Security – A&M Security Ltd are happy to support the St Luke’s Golf Day. Its 20 years since Elaine Laniewski one of A&M Security Ltd founding partners and Managing Directors Daniel Laniewski mum lost her battle to breast cancer and the St Luke’s staff were great to all the family and especially Elaine. This year, three of Elaine sons will be playing in the St Luke’s golf day and A&M Security Ltd will be sponsoring a hole in her memory. A&M Security Ltd are a family run security company installing and maintaining Intruder alarm, CCTV, Access Control and Fire Alarms throughout the southwest from our head office in Bell Close Plympton. A&M have grown over the years through high standard installation at affordable prices and have built up a large loyal client base throughout the last 35 years in business. If you have any security requirements, please visit our website www.aandmsecurity.co.uk or contact one of the admin team on 01752 337337
Care or not – We offer to advise people who are in need of care support and help them to identify what package of care best meets there needs to remain living in their home as independently as possible for as long as possible. We can also advise people and help them to identify an appropriate care home placement when they are no longer able to safely live alone in their own home. The care home will be one that meets the specific needs of the client. We offer specialist advice in legal areas of community care and NHS continuing Health care and Lasting Powers of Attorney. We can support and advise clients who need help with social service assessments and care plans, adaptations to the home, Direct payments for care services, residential care and funding of care. I have supported St Luke’s because of the tremendous work that they do. They enable people to die with dignity. They provide support when it is badly needed and in difficult circumstances. The amazing people at St Luke’s can also help you smile again.
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Nordic Installations Ltd has become a recognised supplier to a variety of public sector construction projects. All have benefited from the company’s in depth knowledge of product performance levels, appropriate applications and valuable input into design issues.
Benellie – Benellie premium accommodation is the premier Airbnb luxury short term accommodation specialists in the city catering for families and business alike.
ADS – Architectural Design Solutions are a leading window film installation company with 20 years’ experience in the trade. We offer a full range of window film products from tinted to security and provide the ideal solution for any environment. At home or at work, one thin layer of window film helps cut the cost of your energy bills, reduces excessive glare, blocks out heat, increases privacy and security.
Wright Clean Ltd – Wright Clean Ltd provide commercial cleaning services across the South West working with local people and businesses.
Travel Counsellors – As a Travel Counsellor with 30 years’ experience I am your go to person for all types of travel plans. Completely impartial and financially protected I am here to find the right solution for you so what are you waiting for? Specialising in once in a lifetime experiences why not trust a true award winning expert to elevate your travel plans to another level? Get in touch today for a consultation and tailor made proposal.
Steve Hoskings Construction – ‘Steve Hoskin Construction Ltd Building and Civil Engineering Contractors deliver a wide range of services such as earthworks, excavation, civil engineering works & street works to its clients across the southwest. Established in 1995, we are proud of our Cornish heritage. With that pride comes the drive for continual improvement as well as long term planning and ongoing investment in plant, staff skills, training and safety.’
