Victoriana at Little Hulton

Ladies from Worsley Inner Wheel raised £1,000 when they performed a
Victorian extravaganza in aid of St Ann’s. Their club President, Eileen Pearce, and members are pictured in costume when they visited the Hospice at Little Hulton.

Wilmslow Lions funding

Wilmslow Lions helped raise £600, when customers threw coins into the wishing well at Parker’s Garden Centre in Wilmslow. This was together with a raffle, where funds raised were matched by a donation from Wilmslow Lions Club.

Caption: From the right: Simon Wilkinson from Parker’s, Dipti Lakhani from St Ann’s and Elaine Byrne and Margaret Burton from Wilmslow Lions Club.

Swinton school

Swinton pupils raised £655 with an evening of music and song organised by Sarah Dawson and Nicola Gowenlock. The funds will go towards our patient Day Care Centre at Little Hulton.

Birthday gift

St Ann’s supporter Maria McGreevy celebrated her 50th birthday by raising over £747 through the generosity of her friends at a party in the Irish Club in Chorlton. Maria raised the funds in memory of her mum who died at our Heald Green Hospice 20 years ago.
Caption: Maria McGreevey

Community Thanks

Many thanks to our supporters in the community for their kind and generous donations, including:

• The Hair Studio at Urmston for raising £862.
• Worsley Road Reformed Church for raising £305.
• Caterpillar Logistic Services for raising £271.
• Radcliffe AC for helping Jim Rhodes raise £2000, making a grand total of £35,000 over 27 years.
• Talbot Catholic Club for raising £500 at their Dinner Dance Raffle.
• Higher Broughton Health Centre for raising £395.
• Swinton Park Golf Club for raising £667 from the proceeds of a Race Night.
• The Salford Arms for raising £706 with a Tribute Night in memory of Steve Riley.
• Pat Hall for raising £1,100 at Little Hulton Christmas Fair.
• Salford Cathedral Choir for raising £451 from their pub crawl around Salford.
• Little Hulton Conservative Club for raising over £3,000 in memory of Barbara Foster.
• Salford City Council for collecting £900 in lieu of Christmas cards.
• Stotts Opticians of Swinton for raising £406 at their Christmas party
• St John the Evangelist Church in Pendlebury for raising £211.
• Worsley Inner Wheel for raising £1,000 at their Victorian evening.
• Kath Mitchell, our pharmacist at Little Hulton, for donating a prize of £343.
• The Duke’s Gate pub at Little Hulton for donating £210
• The Pain Center at Hope Hospital for their donation of £356.
• Cheshire Masons for their donation of £8,000.
• Salford Masons for their donation of £4,579.
• The Rotary Club of Gatley for their donation of £1,350.
• The Arden Arms Pub in Stockport for raising £2,312.
• Ashton-on-Mersey Golf Club for their donation of £1,885.
• East Cheshire Musical Theatre Company for raising £1,000 from their production of “Stepping Out”.
• Stockport Carnival Committee for raising £565.
• Alex Sealy for donating £250
• Steven Clarke of Wolstenholmes Solicitors in Heald Green for asking for donations in lieu of birthday presents raising over £280.
• The Guvnors for holding another gig and raising a further £500.
• Woodend Nursing Home for raising £393.
  

Corporate Thanks

Many thanks to our corporate supporters for their continued fundraising efforts, including:

• Spie Matthew Hall
• Virgin Media
• Brown Shipley; N M Rothschild and Halliwells for renewing their Corporate Care Scheme membership
• Addleshaw Goddard for raising £1,389
• Pelican Press in Ancoats for raising £120
• Creamline Dairies for 3 further donations of £1,000 from their customer lottery
• The Metropolitan in West Didsbury for £4,300 from their charity season.
• All 15 firms of solicitors who supported the Will Writing Promotion last autumn raising over £2,500.
• All 54 firms of solicitors who supported our annual Will Week - we hope this will equal last year's £28,000.
• SAS Daniels for holding a Christmas raffle raising £165.
• Michael Turner Photography for raising £1,647.50 from his Smile photography promotion.
• Manchester Evening News for their Readers Carols Service collection which raised £1,492.
• Royal Bank of Scotland credit card centre.
• Emirates
• Tesco Handforth Dean for the donation of £1,000.

For adopting St Ann’s as their Charity of the Year:

• Morson International
• CDL
• Hurst
• Towergate
• Addleshaw Goddard
• KPMG LLP
• Pure Innovations
• Edward Mellor
• Midshire Business Systems (Northern)
• Taylor Young
• Yorkshire Bank
  

Trust Funds

Many thanks for donations from the following Trust Funds:

• The late Miss A E Hilton Charitable Trust: £ 60,180
• Addleshaw Goddard: £500
• Benson Black Memorial Charitable Trust: £500
• Christian Community Charitable Trust: £1,000
• East Lancashire Masonic Benevolent Institution: £4,579
• Harold Smith Charitable Trust: £500
• Ken and Sylvia Hymas Charitable Trust: £7,000
• Provincial Grand Lodge of Cheshire Freemasons: £8,219
• Sir Jules Charitable Trust: £1,000
• The Camelia Trust: £1,000
• The Dowager Countess Eleanor Peel Trust: £7,500
• The Hedley Foundation: £2,000
• The Orr Mackintosh Foundation: £1,000
• The Pennycress Trust: £300.
• The Wolfson Foundation: £40,000
  

The following supporters left a Gift in their Will

• Miss Clara Currie of Chorlton, secretary to our founder Bishop Greer
• Joyce Marchington of Chapel-en-le-Frith
• Prof Durward Cruickshank of Alderley Edge
• Mrs Joan Dalton of Romiley
• Eileen O'Shea from Swinton

St Ann’s Tribute Funds

Many thanks to the following for setting up Tribute Funds in memory of their loved ones:

• Jean Connor in memory of her husband, David Connor
• Julie Pye in memory of her husband, Phil Pye
• Lynda Clarke in memory of her father, Harry Cohen
• Claire and Jenny Collison in memory of their grandfather, James Collison