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We’re thrilled to have been invited by our friends and members at the Rotary Club of Banbury to join them at this year’s Banbury Canal Festival on 30 September and 1 October. 🤩

And we’re looking for volunteers to help out with our collection buckets for Katharine House. 👀

The Canal Festival is a popular event and attracts lots of people to the area, so it will be a brilliant opportunity to represent the hospice and help raise money.

We're looking for two volunteers for each time slot to help with a bucket collection over the two days from 10.30am to 4.30pm.

Saturday 30 September
🔹 11am-12.30pm
🔹 12.30-2pm **NOW FILLED**
🔹 2-4pm

Sunday 1 October
🔹 11am-12.30pm **NOW FILLED**
🔹 12.30-2pm
🔹 2-4pm

Sign up here if you'd like to be a part of this exciting event and help us raise much-needed funds for the hospice! 👉 www.khh.org.uk/community-event-volunteers

Thrilled to announce we have partnered with Katharine House Hospice as one of our community partners.

Katharine House Hospice provides free specialist care for adults with incurable illnesses in north Oxfordshire and south Northamptonshire. The team really do an extraordinary job in the care they provide.

Every year they need to raise more than £3 million so that they can go on caring for people living with an incurable illness. Here at The Cherwell Agent we are proud to help, even in some small way.

Our sellers will have the option to select KHH as their chosen partner at the end of the transaction, meaning The Cherwell Agent will donate £100 to the cause.

Huge thanks to Katharine House Hospice and Sue Blank for her enthusiasm and support in setting this partnership up.

You can see more about our community partners here:

https://www.thecherwellagent.co.uk/communitypartners

Banbury business joins Katharine House Hospice bake-off challenge fundraiser A Banbury business has joined the Katharine House Hospice competitive bake-off challenge to raise money for people affected by life-limiting illnesses.

🪂 Sending so much luck to our super seven this weekend who are taking part in a skydive to raise money for our hospice. ❤️

Three cheers for Judith, Maia, Nicole, Maureen, Becky, Gill and our very own Website Editor Emma. Chute for the sky! ✨

We really need volunteers can you help ? Please pop into the shop and speak to sinead the shop manger or call us on 01608 646651

Creative Fundraising Oct 23 – Feb 24

Support Us Make A Will Fortnight

Richard and Jane will be out and about in the local area today and tomorrow (Thursday 24 and Friday 25 August) – and in the coming weeks – letting people know about our Katharine House lottery. 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️

Part of the lottery canvasser role is being able to reach people who may not have heard about Katharine House and giving them the opportunity to support our hospice by playing our lottery – and be in with the chance of winning £1,000 each week. 🤩

It costs more than £4.7m to run Katharine House Hospice every year. Although we receive some funding from the NHS, we still need to raise more than £3m annually to provide our care and services free of charge. Our lottery plays an incredibly important part in helping us support local people with life-limiting illness as well as their families and loved ones. ❤️

Richard and Jane will both have Katharine House ID badges with their photos and hospice logo.

If you don’t play our lottery yet, what are you waiting for? You can find out more and sign up here: www.khh.org.uk/lottery

Or if you like the sound of being a Lottery Canvasser yourself, you can find details about the role here: www.khh.org.uk/lottery-canvasser

Something exciting has been brewing in the Fundraising office... ☕

We’re relaunching our Care for a Cuppa campaign! 🎂🥳🙌

Could you host a coffee morning, cake sale or Bake Off event and help us raise some dough for our hospice?

Gather your friends, family, colleagues or community and bake a difference for Katharine House. 🥰 To help you with your delicious endeavours, we’ve got loads of resources to make it even easier. ✔️

Want a slice of the action? Click here to find out more and register your Care for a Cuppa event. www.khh.org.uk/cuppa

We’ll be sharing more in the coming weeks... we love it when a flan comes together! 😂

Calling all teachers!

Have you signed up to our Accumulator Challenge yet? It's a great way for schools to encourage some entrepreneurial spirit in students, all while giving something back to the community. 🥰

Students from Kineton High School have taken part in the challenge every year since it began back in 2014 – and they were eager to take part again this year.

Ms Purnell, Head of Art and Design at Kineton School said: "One of the best things about the Accumulator Challenge is the whole school coming together and everyone being involved. As a teacher, it’s very rewarding to see.

"The students learn many things from teamwork, product design, finances, marketing and organisational skills!” ✅

Since the Accumulator Challenge began in 2014, Kineton High School have raised nearly £14,000 for the hospice AND have won the Most Funds raised by a School award every year! 👏

Ms Purnell continued: "We are so pleased the Accumulator Challenge is back as we love a challenge to get our teeth into! I would encourage any school, business or community group to take part too. We love a bit of competition here at KHS!” 💪

Think your school, business or community group has got what it takes? Sign up now www.khh.org.uk/accumulator-fb

Read more about Kineton High’s success story here: www.khh.org.uk/kineton-high-schools-accumulator-challenge

Trustees at Katharine House play a vital role in governing the charity, bringing their professional knowledge and experience to support the Senior Leadership Team to strengthen and grow the Charity.

We are looking for Trustees to join our Board with the following expertise:

🔹Finance
🔹Fundraising
🔹Digital

The role requires around 1-2 days commitment each month, inclusive of meetings, our Trustee away day, reading and prep for meetings and other ad hoc activities. Previous experience of a trusteeship is desirable.

Do you have the passion, skills and time to dedicate to helping our hospice achieve our aims? We’d love to hear from you!

Find out more: www.khh.org.uk/charity-trustees

Our care for families and friends doesn’t end when a loved one dies.

Thanks to our dedicated team of Bereavement Support Volunteers, we’re able to help people during the toughest of times. ❤️

But we desperately need more volunteers in these roles so we can keep providing this essential care.

Maggie, one of our Bereavement Support Volunteers, told us: “Helping people to manage their grief is a huge privilege; clients trust you with deeply important personal experiences, which they might not have shared with others. Without a doubt I’ve got as much out of volunteering, as, I hope, the people I’ve been working with. I have learned an enormous amount form each individual client.”

If you’re a good listener and have time to spare, please consider volunteering for this vital role. Training will be provided, as well as ongoing supervision and support.

Find out more here: www.khh.org.uk/bereavement-support-volunteers

You can read more about Maggie here www.khh.org.uk/blog/two-minutes-with-maggie

After a few years away, we’re very excited to be back at Fairport's Cropredy Convention from Thursday 10 to Saturday 12 August. 🙌

Rachel from our Fundraising team has been busy organising a raffle in aid of Katharine House, as well as the volunteer team to sell the raffle tickets during the popular three-day open-air music festival.

As always, we’re so grateful to all our volunteers for giving up their time so we can be part of these fantastic local community events. 😍

Don’t forget to come and find our table and get your raffle tickets. We have some brilliant prizes on offer:

1st prize – Acoustic Guitar signed by Fairport Convention
2nd prize – Large Double Sycamore Silver Pendant donated by Lucy Jade Sylvester Jewellery
3rd prize – Signed LP Myths & Heroes and a book

Other prizes include:

🟡 Animal Skater Backpack – donated by Mountain Warehouse Banbury
🟡 Original Stormtrooper Beer ‘Victory’ Hamper – donated by Original Stormtrooper Beer Banbury
🟡 CD – Heart of England – signed by some artists.

The raffle draw will take place on Saturday night. 🤞

See you there! 🤩

We are thrilled to present our new-look website. 😍 www.khh.org.uk

After six months of research and development, we can’t wait for you to take a look around.

We’ve listened to feedback and have adapted the site to suit your needs, taking into consideration the different audiences that use the website.
So, whether you’re a:
🔹patient or family member finding out what support we can provide,
🔹healthcare professional wanting to refer a patient to Katharine House,
🔹potential volunteer wanting to find out about your options to support us,
🔹a fundraiser who would like to take part in one of our events,
🔹or someone looking for other information...
..we hope that you’ll quickly and easily navigate your way around our new website to find whatever you are looking for. 👀

We’re always looking to improve, so would love to hear what you think by clicking through to the feedback form. www.khh.org.uk/News/new-look-for-our-website

This is why we do what we do. ❤️
It's so special to receive feedback like this.

Are you looking for a job with a difference? Do you love getting out and meeting new people?

This may be the role for you... 👀

We’re working with the Fundraising Partnership to help grow our weekly lottery with the help of Lottery Canvassers!

There are both part-time and full-time opportunities as a Lottery Canvasser across our catchment area. If you are successful with your application, you would be employed by the Fundraising Partnership, but work on the Katharine House Hospice account.

Find out more here: www.khh.org.uk/lottery-canvasser

We’ve just added two brand-new volunteer roles onto our website.

This could be the role you’ve been waiting for... 👀

Tin Co-ordinator Volunteer
Could you support our Fundraising Team by placing and collecting our collection tins in shops, businesses and other popular locations in the community and expanding this where possible?
www.khh.org.uk/tin-co-ordinator-volunteers

Town Champion
Could you help us by advertising forthcoming fundraising events on your town noticeboards? The challenge is to ensure as many people as possible are aware of our events to encourage participation and help raise money for Katharine House. We already have some brilliant Village Champions and are looking to grow the role for towns as well.
www.khh.org.uk/town-champions

As well as helping our hospice and your local community, it’s a great way to learn new skills, make some friends and improve your wellbeing. ✨

Find out more about volunteering for Katharine House here: www.khh.org.uk/volunteering

We already have some brilliant teams signed up for our Accumulator Challenge – which is kicking off in October – and the fighting talk and friendly competition has already begun!

Yes, we’re talking about you Graf UK Ltd. 😂 The team at Graf who took part in our Accumulator Challenge back in 2019-2020 were awarded the impressive accolade of Most Creative Fundraising Award by a business for their unique money-raising ideas. 👏🏆

We welcomed Callum and Catherine from Graf UK to the hospice a few weeks back to find out more about their impressive fundraising efforts. Callum, who was heavily involved in all aspects of the challenge, said: "The Accumulator Challenge is a great way to bring your team together and unite the whole business, whilst doing a great thing for a great local charity. We can’t wait to raise as much money as possible, plus we invite any company to try and beat us." 💪

Are you up for the challenge and ready to take on local teams to battle it out and become the Ultimate Accumulator? Places are limited, so sign up today to secure your spot! www.khh.org.uk/accumulator-fb

Read more about Graf UK’s fundraising adventures here: www.khh.org.uk/graf-uk-and-the-accumulator-challenge