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Veronica sitting in her kitchen at home. She is wearing a pink t-shirt and smiling to the camera.

Why your support matters

St John’s celebrates and amplifies life, enabling people to live well for as long as possible. As well as our Inpatient Unit and Wellbeing Centre located in St John’s Wood, we work out in the community, in people’s homes, providing care to more than 4,000 people with life-limiting illnesses and their families across North London. This wouldn't be possible without the generosity of people like you.

Your donation will help us be there for patients and their families when it matters most. Whether it’s supporting a child through bereavement counselling, funding art therapy sessions in our Wellbeing Centre or helping families with respite care. Families just like Veronica and Riccardo's.

Veronica and Riccardo's story

38-year-old Veronica and her husband, Riccardo, moved to the UK from Italy just a few months before Veronica received her cancer diagnosis. The couple found themselves in a new country and separated from their usual support networks when, in their own words, their “world was turned upside down.”

“It was a lot to face, and the hospice helped ease that pressure, that initial shock of the diagnosis and how our lives were going to drastically change overnight,” Veronica explains.

“The St John’s Community team came to us at home. As well as being a source of pain and symptom control, our community nurse discussed the new situation we found ourselves in, the medications I was now going to be on, setting up the equipment I would need, and organised visits from their therapists. They also referred us to the day services at the hospice and made sure that in those months when I struggled to walk, the ambulance came to pick me up, so I never missed a week.”

“They helped us realise we weren’t alone and that there was this amazing community we were a part of and that we could be supported by.”

With your support, we can continue to be there for even more patients just like Veronica and their loved ones.

How your support can help

  • £5 could help us answer calls to our 24/7 advice line for one hour, offering patients and their families the support they need when it matters most.
  • £10 could purchase new books or equipment for children going through bereavement.
  • £35 could fund a visit from one of our community nurses who can provide much-needed support to patients and their families in their own homes.
  • £50 could help fund our inpatient care, whether it's managing a patient’s pain and symptoms, providing end-of-life care, or offering respite for family members and carers.
  • £100 could purchase the monthly supplies for art therapy classes in our Wellbeing Centre, enabling our patients to learn new skills, express themselves and above all else, relax and have fun with one another.
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Get in touch

We're here to help. If you have any questions about the ways you can give and the impact your gift can have, please get in touch by emailing fundraising@hje.org.uk or calling us on 020 7806 4011.

If you would like to donate by post, you can send us your cash or a cheque made out to ‘St John’s Hospice’ to the address below:

Fundraising Department
St John’s Hospice
60 Grove End Road
London
NW8 9NH

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