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Category: General News

Join In The Big Jubilee Lunch

To mark the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen, this year’s annual neighbourhood get-together, The Big Lunch, is taking on a royal theme! Following the success of The Diamond Big Jubilee

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Phyllis Tuckwell Plant Sales Restart for 2022

On Sunday 3rd April, Phyllis Tuckwell will be re-starting its monthly Hospice plant sales for 2022, and there will be plenty to choose from! These popular plant sales always include a wide variety

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Phyllis Tuckwell Welcomes Patients to New Living Well Programmes

Phyllis Tuckwell’s new Living Well programmes are proving to be very popular with patients, who are pleased to be able to return to face-to-face groups now that government Covid restrictions

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HRH The Countess of Wessex visits Shooting Star House

Her Royal Highness The Countess of Wessex enjoyed some arts and crafts made by children and families supported by Shooting Star Children’s Hospices. The Countess, who is a Shooting Star

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Sensory music fun for supported families

There is no shortage of fun being had at Shooting Star Children's Hospices Outreach, Therapies and Family Support Centre, Shooting Star House, with a new open music therapy group. The group run

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Open Your Garden for Phyllis Tuckwell

Do you have a garden that others would love to visit and admire? Why not show it off at Phyllis Tuckwell’s 2022 Open Gardens event? The hospice care charity is looking for green-fingered

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Charlie-Ray’s story – Supported by Shooting Star

“The minute he gets to the hospice, he’s just so animated, as soon as he’s through the door he’s smiling and knows everyone so well and for me when I get in there, I just feel so free,”

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Phyllis Tuckwell Recruitment Day for Student Counsellors

Phyllis Tuckwell will be holding a Student Counsellor Recruitment Event on Wednesday 9th February, and the deadline for applications for the event is no later than 4pm on Wednesday 26th

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Christmas Draw 2021 Results

Congratulations to the £2,000 winning ticket number 42780 from Farnham

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Alan and Deb’s Story

“Alan and I were in the Army”, says Deb. “We met in the Sergeants’ mess and clicked immediately. I left when I was 30, but Alan stayed on. We married and had three children. When he

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