Longest Day, Lasting Care Campaign

Between now and the 21st June 2025, we will be running our Longest Day, Lasting Care campaign to help fund the very best palliative care for local people and support their families.

Our aim is to raise as much money as possible to fund the vital services provided at Nightingale House Hospice. This will help us run all services during this celebratory year for our 30th Anniversary. Everything from wellbeing sessions and rehabilitation appointments in our specialist gym, to providing tasty, nutritious patient meals and creative therapy workshops, to respite and end-of-life care in our Inpatient Unit and bereavement support for local families.

The campaign will run from Spring 2025 up until the longest day of the year, 21st June 2025. We will conclude the campaign with a 2-day fundraising marathon featuring a 90’s style telethon for donations on the 20th & 21st June, along with various community events on those dates.

This is a brand-new initiative for the hospice, and we are hopeful that it will ignite the imagination of the public. The real beauty of this campaign is that your fundraising efforts will make DOUBLE the impact. For every donation made towards the campaign during this period, our fabulous group of funders, made up of philanthropists, foundations, and businesses, will match that donation. So, £30 becomes £60 for the hospice, and £300 becomes £600!

Whether you can provide a one-off donation, hold a sponsored or social event or work for an organisation that may be interested in match funding, your support would be hugely appreciated. We encourage you to make your pledge today and get in touch.

How can you get involved?

From now until June, we will be drumming up the support of the communities around us. There are a number of ways to get involved:

• Donate: To donate to our Longest Day Lasting Care campaign, head to our JustGiving page here
• Complete a ’30 for 30 challenge’: To celebrate 30 years of care at the hospice, set yourself a ‘30 themed’ challenge this could be running, walking, swimming…. for 30 hours…or over 30 days. It could be giving up chocolate for 30 days. The options are endless, and one for all ages.
• Organise your own event: Could you, your school, your sports club, or your employer host a fundraiser to support the campaign? We would love to hear your ideas. For example, we already have several golf clubs hosting events for the campaign, and hairdressers, barbers, beauticians, and tattooists are hosting style-a-thons.
• Become a match funder: We are looking for the help of companies and charitable trusts that would be interested in coming on board as a funder to match the efforts of the public and make double the difference for hospice care at Nightingale House Hospice. Please find out more information here

Set up your own JustGiving page for your fundraiser / event and link it to our Longest Day, Lasting Care campaign here

For more information on how you could get involved, contact the Fundraising Team on 01978 314292 or email fundraising@nightingalehouse.co.uk

Note: Fundraising for this campaign is not limited to June 20th and 21st, 2025. We would welcome anyone to get involved in the run-up to those dates.