Building the Future

THANK YOU
CHARITY GOLF DAYS
With most planned charity events cancelled due to the
pandemic, special thanks go to very generous golfers at
the Barnard Charity Golf Days, the Royal Norwich Golf
Club Captains’ Weekend, the Norwich Inns Golf Day
and the Eaton Golf Club Captains’ event.
INTRODUCTION
The Priscilla Bacon Hospice charity launched the £12.5 million fundraising appeal to build
the new Priscilla Bacon Lodge in February 2019. Within little more than a year, we were
delighted to announce that we had passed the halfway point of our fundraising target.
However, the world then faced the Covid-19 pandemic; the biggest challenge the health
and care system has faced in living memory. The pandemic did not diminish the need for
a new specialist hospice for Norfolk and Waveney; it exacerbated the existing demand.
Throughout the pandemic, the Trustees and staff have worked relentlessly on fundraising
and on developing a cutting-edge design for the new hospice.
Despite the economic climate, we were thrilled to
announce during the summer of 2021, that we had
raised more than £10 million of our fundraising target.
CYCLING STARS
Julia Gooch and Lyndon Tunmore
completed a 20-week, 5,000-mile
fundraising cycle ride around the
coastline of Great Britain. Their epic
adventure was inspired by friends
who received end-of-life care at
Priscilla Bacon Lodge.
PLANTING FOR PRISCILLA
We were very grateful to Alan Titchmarsh for judging our
lockdown gardening competition. It was one of many new
online fundraising initiatives launched during the pandemic.
He was incredibly impressed by the high standard of the entries.
This sum has been raised thanks to a remarkable groundswell of support from Norfolk,
Waveney and beyond. It represents a direct response to the pioneering care which
countless families have received at The Lodge over the last 40 years.
When Priscilla Bacon Lodge opened in 1979, it was the first hospice in East Anglia and
one of the earliest hospices in the country. When the new Priscilla Bacon Lodge opens
in 2023, it will be the first hospice built in the post-Covid era, encompassing the latest
developments in infection control. The new facility will not only meet current needs, but
will be fit for the future, with the potential for further growth and the flexibility
to adapt to changing models of care.
Work is under way on the site, so now is the time to help raise the final funds required to
build the new hospice.
The new Priscilla Bacon Lodge will be a lasting legacy to the generosity of the people of
Norfolk and Waveney, who have continued to support end-of-life care for over 40 years,
and it will be the new specialist facility so urgently needed.
It is a privilege to be the Chair of this campaign and an honour to have been able
to provide resources and most recently the gift of the superbly located 8-acre site, upon
which the new Priscilla Bacon Lodge will be built.
I hope that you will enjoy reading this brochure and learning more about the new
hospice and that you will join me in thanking the remarkable volunteers, fundraisers and
supporters who are vital to our campaign.
Thank you on behalf of the Trustees and staff.
Robert Carter DL
Chair of Trustees, Priscilla Bacon Norfolk Hospice Care