Pebblebeach Fundraising and Consultancy for Charities

Anita Dob
Thames Ho
Please, give your support today and help us create a new home for hospice care; a
home that is worthy of every mother, father, son or daughter that will come here.
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The Clock Tower Sanctuary
Wenlock House
41-43 North Street
Brighton
BN1 1RH
The total build cost is £22 million – and our charity must fund every penny of this.
Now, with the hospice under construction – and ‘only’ the last £3 million to raise –
we are turning to you, our community to help fund building the new patient
bedrooms and family rooms.
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I have been a nurse for 32 years. In that time, I have never found a more inspirational
place to care for people than Thames Hospice. Our staff and volunteers demonstrate
unequalled passion and commitment to their work. Every patient, every family
member who comes here is treated as an individual – and is given the care, attention
and respect that we would all wish for our own loved ones.
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The Snowman Spectacular Appeal 2019
for Chestnut Tree House
We are building your brand-new
Thames Hospice – a new home for
end-of-life care in our community.
But we need your help today to
complete the building of the most
important rooms – the patient
bedrooms and family rooms.
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But our Hospice building is now over 30 years old – and can no longer keep up with
the care needs of our community. We need a new, modern hospice that will be able
to provide the very best care for local people for generations to come.
Debbie Raven
Chief Executive
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hestnut’s care is offered completely free. It costs over £4
Cmillion each year to care for all the children they support;
yet they receive less than six per cent of their care costs from
central government. And, this Christmas, Chestnut Tree
House needs £116,450 to keep the hospice open over the
Christmas holidays – that’s £6,850 per day – to provide care
to the 300 children and families they support across Sussex
and South East Hampshire.
There are two important ways you can help local life-limited
children this Christmas. Firstly, please will you make a
donation to help pay for the care the children and their
families need over the holidays. For example, one hour of
specialist nursing care at the hospice costs £35.70. A two-hour
home visit (and Chestnut nurses will be on the road every day
over Christmas) costs £71.40. A generous gift of £285 would pay for
all of Chestnut’s care services for a whole hour.
The second way to help is by sending a message of love and support to all the children and
families at Chestnut on the back of the Snowman tag that’s included with my letter. Raymond
Briggs is a Patron of Chestnut Tree House and he is helping to make this year a Snowman
Spectacular Christmas at Chestnut. The Snowman will be making a personal appearance at the
House – and we’d like as many Snowman tags returned as possible to help decorate the hospice.
Help us Raise the Walls of our patients’
bedrooms at the new Thames Hospice
To say ‘thank you’, Chestnut will be sending you a special Christmas card designed by Raymond
Briggs, along with a personal message from the artist himself. The team at Chestnut will send
one to each person who is kind enough to respond to this appeal.
Please support Chestnut if you can. Your donation will help to care for other children like Theo –
and provide a lifetime of memories for other families like us.
Thank you. With love and best Christmas wishes to you and your family.
Chantelle
Note from Chestnut Tree House:
This Christmas appeal will be delivered to
many households across Sussex and South East
Hampshire. But, because it’s not personally
addressed (to save money), we are unable to
know if you are already a Chestnut supporter. So,
if you have already responded, please accept our
heartfelt thanks and feel free to pass this on to
someone you think might also want to support lifelimited
children this Christmas.
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Our lovely family
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The Snowman Spectacular Appeal 2019
for Chestnut Tree House
This Christmas please help Raymond Briggs’ beloved creation,
The Snowman, to bring care, joy and wonder to children at
Chestnut Tree House children’s hospice.
Dear Friend,
ur son Theo lived for six weeks and two days. The
Olast four weeks and two days were spent at Chestnut
Tree House, your local children’s hospice. I’m Chantelle,
Theo’s mum, and I’d like to tell you about the incredible,
passionate care Chestnut gave to my son and ask for
your help in bringing a spectacular, magical, Snowman
Christmas to every child cared for at your local children’s
hospice this year.
Theo was our first child and everything was fine until the day
before he was born. There was a problem with the umbilical
cord, which meant he was starved of oxygen. I was rushed in for
a caesarean, but it was too late. The doctors told me and my husband
Lewis that his brain had been severely damaged, that he wouldn’t survive.
I asked, “How long will he live?”. They said, “We don’t know.”
Our precious baby, Theo
Theo was in the hospital, but not responding to outside stimulation,
only breathing with the help of a machine. After one week we
decided to withdraw his breathing tube and let him slip away. But
incredibly, Theo began breathing on his own.
We had no idea what to do. We couldn’t take Theo home – so Lewis
and I were stuck in hospital, in Theo’s little room, for hours at a
time.
That was when one of the nurses told us about Chestnut Tree House
and suggested we go and have a look. I remember driving there with
Theo and being amazed to find this huge house tucked away in the
trees (we live locally – I must have driven past
Chestnut hundreds of times and never
realised it was there).
It felt like a home. There were no sterilised corridors, no tubes, no
machines beeping. We were greeted by a lovely nurse with a smile
and shown to what would become Theo’s room – the ‘Hedgehog’
room.
Chestnut gave Theo a brand-new cot and a teddy bear to put
next to him (we’ve still got the bear!) The nurses came and
tucked him in, talked to us about Theo, how we wanted to care
for him. They gave Lewis and me a room upstairs, but there
was a sofa-bed in Hedgehog that we could use whenever
we wanted.
If undelivered, please return to: Chestnut Tree House, 2 Titnore Lane,
Goring-by-Sea, Worthing, West Sussex, BN12 6NZ
Registered charity number 256789
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