Charity knitathon comes to St Rocco's Hospice (From Warrington Guardian)

Charity knitathon comes to St Rocco's Hospice

3:40pm Tuesday 14th October 2008

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PATIENTS at St Rocco’s Hospice have been picking up their knitting needles for a charity knitathon.

The site on Lockton Lane in Bewsey is undergoing a £3.3m expansion that will see the construction of a new day hospice.

And patients have been helping raise funds for the project by taking part in a sponsored scarf knit.

Pam Sherratt, staff nurse, said: “All the patients have joined in and knitted a little piece of knitting that we will make into hopefully a very long scarf.

“Each patient has taken home a sponsor form and has raised quite a lot of money for us, which we are going to sell in the ball in October to raise some more funds.”

The new building will feature four therapy suites, an art and craft room, therapeutic garden and sun room and enhanced physiotherapy and occupational therapy areas.

The hospice says it will be able to introduce new and more flexible sessions such as therapeutic craft sessions, yoga, management of breathlessness, fatigue management, carers groups and horticultural therapy, along with offering increased capacity for outpatient services and improved family support provision, including a designated children’s therapy room.

Phase two of the expansion will see the building of a resource and education training facility, which will accommodate medical and nursing students learning about palliative care.

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