As many of you may have seen, our Strictly St. Rocco's dancers were announced a few weeks ago and are now hard at work practicing their routines 💃🕺 However, we have one more very special announcement to make about the event and that is that we are thrilled to say that this years event will once again be sponsored by Rybrook Jaguar Warrington 🏎 Rybrook has been a supporter of St. Rocco's for a number of years and we are so grateful for all of the support that they show the hospice through their sponsorship of events. We'd like to say a huge THANK YOU to the entire team and look forward to seeing them on the night 😁

#CharityTuesday Now that Autumn is nearly here we've got a lot of events coming up here at St. Rocco's and we need donations of fabulous prizes for upcoming tombolas! We need everything from gift sets to bottles of bubbles (from prosecco to bubble bath 😂) so if you have anything you're looking to donate please feel free to drop them into St. Rocco's for the attention of our Fundraising Team!

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#CharityTuesday We'd like to say a huge THANK YOU to Matthew who came into St. Rocco's over the weekend to drop off a cheque from the charity bowls tournament he held in memory of his grandfather, Alf ❤️ The event raised an amazing £540 and due to its success Matthew now plans on making it an annual event. "We nearly got rained on on the day but grandad did his bit and kept the skies clear for us," Matthew said of the day 😁 Thank you again to Matthew and to everybody else who took part in the tournament as well as everybody who donated. The money raised will help us to continue to provide our care and support to all of our patients and their families.

We have a winner! 🏅 This year at the Starlight Ladies Walk we had a few fabulous prizes on offer and we're pleased to announce that the winner of the overnight stay at the Village Hotel, Warrington was Alyssa! Huge congratulations to Alyssa and a massive thank you to everybody who donated to her Starlight challenge! 🤩

We've had a visitor over the weekend here at St. Rocco's! One of our lovely nurses spotted this heron perched just above our chapel and managed to take this snap before it flew away 🦅 It's always so lovely to see birds and animals visit the hospice and it's surrounding gardens. It's interesting to note also that in Native American folklore seeing a heron is a sign of good luck, wisdom and determination, which we think is very fitting for St. Rocco's ❤️

As a new week starts are you looking for a new challenge and a way to help your local community? St. Rocco's is currently looking for volunteers in our shops at the following locations... - Latchford (Mondays and Saturdays) - Lymm (Wednesdays) - Lymm Bookshop (Saturdays and Sunday) - Birchwood (Saturday) - Stockton Heath (Thursday and Saturday) You'll be joining a team of over 300 shop volunteers, all of whom donate their time in aid of patient care here at St. Rocco's ❤️ For more information or to offer your time please contact our Volunteering Team on 01925 575780 or volunteering@stroccos.org.uk

Is your Sunday being spent car shopping? 🚗 What if we told you you could get a car for as little as £1?! We've launched our St. Rocco's Car Raffle and you could win a 68-plate ex-demonstrator Suzuki Celerio, which has been very kindly donated by Chapelhouse Suzuki, for the price of a £1 ticket! You have to be 'in it to win it' so if you fancy you're chances pop into St. Rocco's to purchase your tickets! GOOD LUCK! Full details and terms and conditions can be found here http://bit.ly/2YbE5fA

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Following on from our previous post, our furniture shop currently has these beautiful vintage looking wood pieces for sale so if you're looking for some old/new furniture make sure to pop in and see us as we don't think they'll be here for long! 👍 Trio of tables- £15 Solid Oak Bureau- £175 Large Draws- £40 Small Draws- £25 Contact 01925 650800 for more information!

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Our St. Rocco's Furniture Shop is moving! In a few weeks time, we'll be opening our brand new furniture shop on Mersey Street, Warrington but we need your help to fill it! 😁 If you're spending your weekend having a clear-out and have any good condition, resaleable furniture why not consider donating it to St. Rocco's? We currently need sofas urgently but all donations are welcome and we even have a free collection service so there's no hassle in getting your pre-loved items to us! 👍 For more information and to organise a collection please contact 01925 650800

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Remember theres still time to register a team for this years St. Rocco's Golf Day! The event is always a fab day and is a great team-building activity for colleagues, friends and other groups. Entry fee per team is £360 and theres also the chance to sponsor a hole on the green, perfect for Warrington's businesses! We're also thrilled to announce that Rybrook Jaguar Warrington will return as the sponsor of this year's event and have very generously donated a prize of 48-hour use of a Jaguar F-Type for whoever has the longest drive on the day! We're so grateful for the support from Rybrook and can't wait to see who the lucky winner is! For more information and to register a team please contact our Corporate Fundraiser, Nicola, on 01925 575780 or niocolahenshaw@stroccos.org.uk

Our #FundraisingFriday post this week goes to the District Nursing team over in Birchwood who are taking part, as a team, in this year's Colour Bubble Fun Run in memory of a special friend and colleague ❤️🌈 One of the team, Joanne, told us that they were inspired to take part this year to support the work that St. Rocco's does in helping those with life-limiting illnesses and that running in memory of their friend was their way of remembering "an amazing, lovely caring lady, who gave us a lot of laughs and gives us the chance to make this charity event one to remember" We're sure the entire team will do a fab job of fundraising and we can't wait to see them cross the finish line! Good Luck ladies! 💛💚💙💜 To donate to the team's challenge please click here http://bit.ly/2L2w8BI

If you've ever visited St. Rocco's you may have seen how beautiful the stained glass window in our chapel is. The window is always so colorful and a lovely reminder of the beauty of the world 🌈 One of our members of staff was so inspired by the window that she produced this piece of artwork for a recent event, which we think you'll agree is as stunning as the window is. We always love to receive gifts and items like this and it's always so lovely to see that St. Rocco's is worthy of being included in such beautiful things ❤️ To view more of Karen's amazing artwork please follow and like her Facebook page Karen Zehren Art