Community Focus: Enable's 'Queen of Heart's Ball' for Love Your Hospital

“Love Your Hospital – Love a good party!” 

The girls at Enable are wanting to raise as much money as possible to support Love Your Hospital, the charity set up to provide much needed funds for our West Sussex Hospitals. In order to raise money they are putting on a Black Tie Ball entitled “The Queen of Hearts” at the Hilton Avisford Hotel near Arundel on Saturday 16th May. The ball will feature bubbles on arrival, the fantastic local band ‘The Dumb Waiters’, a three-course meal with wine, dancing, and a DJ. There will also be an exciting auction with fabulous prizes to raise further money for Love Your Hospital. The cost is £60 per head, with a reduced rate of £55 per head for groups of 6-9 and £50 per head for a group of 10 or more.

The evening should prove to be a great opportunity to have some fun, whilst raising money for an exceptionally good cause.

Register your interest by emailing info@enableltd.com

About Enable 
Enable is a local company started by Emily Allchurch, a practicing solicitor.  The easiest way to describe the company is, as one client put it, “like having a really competent family member on tap”.  They are able to arrange care, pay bills, look after all of your admin, sort through your post, even do your weekly shopping, to enable you to worry less and enjoy life more.

For more information on the services they offer see their website www.enableltd.com or telephone them on 01243680680  - they are always happy to offer a no obligation home visit to see how they can help.

About Love Your Hospital
Every year Love Your Hospital raise and invest more than £1m to help ensure patients and visitors at St. Richard’s, Worthing and Southlands Hospitals have the best possible experience.

This money is invested in several areas
- the latest medical equipment to speed up test results and diagnosis
- to improve the patient experience, such as installing information screens, communal gardens and refurbishing clinical areas
- by providing funding for education and training for our nurses and doctors to provide the best possible care to patients.

Visit www.loveyourhospital.org to see how you can help them provide the vital funding required for our local hospitals.

Community Focus: Love Your Hospital

Love Your Hospital is the dedicated charity of Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Every year, they raise and invest more than £1,000,000 in grants to help ensure patients and visitors at St Richard’s, Worthing and Southlands Hospitals have the best possible experience.

Love Your Hospital is committed to: 

1. Providing specialist medical equipment They invest in the very latest medical equipment which can speed up test results and diagnosis, reduce waiting times and limit the need for local families to travel outside the area for hospital care.

2. Transforming hospital facilities and spaces They support our hospitals by providing the best possible patient experience in the most conducive hospital environment, such as installing information screens, nuturing communal gardens and refurbishing clinical areas

3. Helping our nurses and doctors reach their potential They provide funding for additional education and training for medical teams to further develop their skills, share best practice with colleagues and continue providing the best possible care to patients.

Get involved! Love Your Hospital’s supporters are at the heart of their work and they couldn’t continue to provide vital funding to local hospitals without their help. Whether it’s to say “thank you” for outstanding care or simply because you love the NHS, get in touch with the Love Your Hospital team and find out about the many ways you can get involved and have an impact on patient care.

 0800 028 4890
 www.loveyourhospital.org
 @LoveYourHospitalCharity
 @Loveyourhosp
@loveyourhospital
 @love-your-hospital

Community Focus: Litter Ladies of Chichester

Have you heard of the Litter Ladies?

Just look around you and unfortunately, there doesn’t to be a single road, lane, park or any other area that appears to be litter free these days. So, with that in mind and having been inspired by #2minutebeachclean, Mandy Hine founded the Litter Ladies by litter picking whilst walking her dog, Twiggy.

Then, in April last year when four of Mandy’s friends went to her house for supper, Mandy arranged to pick her friends up but told them they had to wear old clothes as they’d be doing an “activity” before supper. One of the ladies thought they were going mud sliding, but in fact they were about to do their first litter pick at Fishbourne Creek! “We all enjoyed it so much that one of the Litter Ladies, Elizabeth Sawday, suggested we do it on a regular basis … and that’s how the Litter Ladies was formed!” Since then the Litter Ladies has grown in numbers and has its own Facebook Page, meeting up once a month (normally in the evening) to pick litter.

Mandy Hine said “We have a wonderful group of volunteers who give up their time to clear areas that are particularly covered in litter. We are not just ladies we have men too! We walk, talk, laugh and enjoy helping the community and hopefully it makes a better visual appearance of the beautiful city we live in”.

Mandy continued “sadly, litter is a constant issue in our towns, cities, beaches and rural areas. We need to educate people not to drop it, it’s not only irresponsible but it’s also a huge danger to our wildlife and sea life. The litter often ends up in rivers and washes into the sea. Some of the consequences of dropping litter is birds ingesting the plastic, sea life getting caught in plastic bottle rings or swallowing plastic thinking it’s food, ultimately causing death.”

One of the main items of litter found by the Litter Ladies are single use plastic bottles. Did you know it takes 450 years for a plastic bottle to break down? Mandy asks; “Please encourage everyone to have a reusable, refillable bottle, which will save yourselves huge amounts of money whilst doing something great for the planet!”

For more information or to help the Litter Ladies, contact Mandy on:

Facebook: Litter Ladies

Email: mandy@message-on-a-bottle.co.uk

Call: Mandy on 07788410233