To see more about the charity, click on above link. The best way to donate is directly through my Just Giving site, which is safe and easy. If you are a taxpayer in the UK this also means that Gift Aid will be added to your donation. However, if you prefer cash or bank transfer, please just leave a comment. You may be wondering whether I have donated – the answer is NO. I am spending quite a lot of money on this trip – I am too old to take a tent, sleeping bag etc. and will be staying in (cheap) hotels, I will need to eat (I know, I have to eat at home too, but that would be considerably cheaper than eating in restaurants) and I am buying extra equipment for my bike. I am not asking anyone to contribute towards these costs, but to sponsor me only for Macmillan Caring Locally.
Here is what your donation will buy, or contribute to:
| This amount | will buy | which helps in this way |
| £5,00 | A specialist children’s book. | These books are specially written to help a child understand bereave-ment; and the family support team give them to family where a loved one has passed away. |
| £10,00 | A Memory Box. | These are keepsake boxes that the Family Support Team give to any children in a family where a loved one is seriously ill. The child is able to decorate the box themselves and put items like photos, perfume etc inside the box. This then becomes a treasured memory of a loved one. |
| £50,00 | A selection of talking books. | Some of the patients at the Macmillan Unit find it difficult to hold a book to read, so the unit has portable DVD / CD players that they can use. Talking books are a great way to listen to your favourite book. |
| £100,00 | Craft materials for our Day Centre. | Macmillan’s Day Centre offers diversional therapies such as painting; and their patients really enjoy the opportunity to spend the day at the centre, and create art and paint pottery. |
| £500,00 | An O2 saturation machine. | Macmillan are aiming for all their palliative care sisters to have these machines. Should a patient require their O2 tested at home, and the staff do not have a machine, the alternative is a trip to hospital for the patient, or an uncomfortable procedure in the home, both of which are distressing when they are very poorly. |
| £1.000,00 | A portable hospital bed. | These are the beds that Macmillan deliver into people’s homes for when a patient would prefer to be cared for at home. |
| £2.500,00 | A Huntleigh Enterprise bed | for the Ward at the Macmillan Unit. Most of the beds at the Macmillan unit are 10-15 years old, so they are trying to update them with new Huntleigh beds. These beds offer far superior patient comfort, and make it easier for patient care. |
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