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Greystones RFC Senior Players play Soccer for Wicklow Hospice Foundation
A 5-a-side soccer tournament in aid of the Wicklow Hospice Foundation will take place in the Shoreline on Saturday 25th February. The Wicklow Hospice Foundation is a non-profit organisation that was set up by the people of Wicklow, for the people of Wicklow, to promote and campaign for the right of every person to choose and decide where they wish to spend their last days.
Date Saturday 25th February 2012
Time 12pm to 4pm
Venue Shoreline Recreational Park Charlesland
This event is being organised by Andrew Kealy and Matthew Norman who will be supported by fellow rugby players from Greystones RFC.
People are welcome to come down during the day and generously donate, or if they would prefer they can donate online at:
www.mycharity.ie/event/wicklowhospicesoccertournament
All donations welcome, every cent makes a difference and it is for a great cause and more importantly a local charity.
All other queries regarding the event or the charity can be referred to:
Andrew Kealy on 086 157 2340 or by email to
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Background on Wicklow Hospice Foundation:
The Wicklow Hospice Foundation was set up in Jan ’09 with the support of the Irish Hospice Foundation in an effort to promote and improve palliative care services in Wicklow and to campaign for a stand-alone 12 bed specialist hospice for the county. The vital new 12-bed facility, which we hope will be started by 2012, will provide a specialist service for end of life care, respite, day-care facilities and outpatient clinics for symptom control. It will also provide a program of palliative and supportive care services providing physical, psychological, social, and spiritual care for patients, their families, and other loved ones. It will embrace not only patients with cancer but offer end-of-life care to most non-malignant illnesses focusing on comfort and quality of life so that they can live each day as fully as possible and with dignity. We are pleased to be able to report some great progress over the last 2 1/2 years;
Campaign Progress to Date:
The appointment of 3 new specialist homecare nurses bringing the team up to a total for 4, the target for a 7 day
service is 7 such posts
The appointment of a specialist palliative care consultant with sessions in Loughlinstown Hospital and with the
homecare team
The establishment of a working group led by HSE management to agree a site and business case for the
establishment of a 12 room inpatient hospice. The working group has made genuine progress on the business case which shows that there are real opportunities to achieve our objectives by engaging with the current HSE transformation programme and reconfiguring resources to provide better quality and more cost effective care to patients.
Total fundraising to date is €1,715,000 from the tireless fundraising & extremely generous donations by the people
of Wicklow.(including an anonymous €1,000,000 donation) and donation of a suitable site for the building by the
Columban Sisters at Magheramore, near Brittis Bay
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