Lincolnshire’s golfing Freemasons have given St Barnabas Hospice £5,000 – enough to fund 250 hours of in-home care, or more than 50 hours of doctor’s care to balance medications for individual patients, or two syringe drivers.
The money was raised at the Lincolnshire Freemasons’ Golfing Association centenary match played at the Seacroft course in Skegness. It topped up the Association’s charity fundraising efforts over its 100-year life to £50,000, all of which was given to good causes in Lincolnshire.
This year running the Hospice will cost £14m, half of which must be raised by the Hospice itself. Receiving the cheque from the golfers Caroline Swindin said: “The Hospice is working through a five-year recovery and growth plan. Funding is a challenge; we were hoping to receive a 2% increase this year, but we actually got just 0.6%. Added to that we are dealing with more complex cases, with complications caused by people suffering long Covid.”
She added: ” All donations are gratefully received, and will help us to continue delivering care not only in the in-patient unit in Lincoln, but also at Wellbeing Centres in Grantham, Louth, Boston, Gainsborough, and Spalding, and through our ‘Hospice at Home’ service, through which staff visit patients in the own homes.”
