Paws 4 A Cause

Wag this Way for Rotherham Hospice with Paws 4 a Cause

Join us for a paw-some day of fun at Manvers Lake on Sunday, March 24th, as we lace up our walking shoes (and paws!) to make a difference! 

🌈 What’s the Bark About?

Gather your canine companions, get those tails wagging, and let’s stride together for a meaningful cause. Get your FREE Paws 4 a Cause dog bandana with every dog registered!

🚶‍♂️ Where: Manvers Lake Manvers Lake sets the stage for our adventure, offering picturesque views and fresh air for a day of bonding with your furry friends and fellow dog enthusiasts.

🐾 Why Join the Pack?

  • Charity with Every Step: Your registration fees and donations go directly to Rotherham Hospice, supporting their crucial work in providing care and comfort to those in need.
  • Doggy Delights: Treat your four-legged friends to a day of excitement with special treats, activities, and games designed just for them!
  • Pooch Portraits: Get your pooches papped by our onsite photographer!

🎉 Event Highlights:

  • Scenic Walk: Embark on a guided walk around the lake, enjoying the serene surroundings with your furry companions.
  • Paw-some Activities: Engage in exciting dog-friendly games and activities, ensuring a day filled with joy and laughter.
  • Vendor Village: Explore a variety of stalls offering pet products, services, and goodies for both you and your furry friend.

Save the Date:
🗓️ Sunday, March 24th
⏰ 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
📍 Manvers Lake, Rotherham

Register your pooch here!

Sandra nominated for Pride of Britain for Rotherham Hospice

Sandra nominated for Pride of Britain for Rotherham Hospice

Sandra is our Pride of Britain!

Everyone at Rotherham Hospice wants to congratulate Sandra Jones, Manager of our Herringthorpe Charity Shop, who was recently nominated for the Mirror’s Pride of Britain Awards. 

Sandra was nominated in the Fundraiser of the Year category as recognition for everything she does for Rotherham Hospice and her local community around Herringthorpe. 

Sandra is passionate about helping her local community,  starting as a volunteer for Rotherham Hospice over 10 years ago. She later became Assistant Manager, then Manager of our Herringthorpe charity shop.

It's a little shop with a big heart that's what we always say. The customers, the volunteers, everyone – absolutely amazing.

Sandra Jones, Rotherham Hospice Shop Manager
Sandra, shop manager for Rotherham Hospice is nominated for Pride of Britain

As a charity, Rotherham Hospice relies on its shops to raise money needed to care for local people and their loved ones going through an end-of-life illness. It’s thanks to people like Sandra that our charity shops are more than just places to find pre-loved treasure at bargain prices.

Clinical Nurse Specialist Vicki explains, “It’s patients and families of patients that have passed away that go into these shops and that’s quite a sensitive time for them. Without realising it, they can be in floods of tears so Sandra and her team and all the other volunteers in shops, they have to be a listening ear sometimes and a comforting ear.”

Sandra puts her all into making everyone feel welcome in the shop. Thank you for all your effort!

Stephen King, Director of Fundraising for Rotherham Hospice

Sandra made it to the final four nominations for Pride of Britain for the Yorkshire & Humber region and was featured on ITV Calendar News. Well done Sandra from everyone at Rotherham Hospice and all the people whose lives you’ve touched!

Inspired by Sandra's story?

Volunteering is a brilliant way to learn new skills, meet new people and feel good in the knowledge you are giving back to your local community.

Rotherham Hospice has all kinds of different volunteering opportunities available, from shop assistant, to bereavement counsellor to volunteer gardener. 

Our volunteers get as much out of volunteering as they put in, and are an essential part of ensuring Rotherham Hospice can support our local families.

Learn more about Volunteering

7 ways to support Rotherham Hospice for FREE

7 easy ways to support Rotherham Hospice for free

Rotherham Hospice provides care & support to local families experiencing an end-of-life illness. As a charity, we rely on our amazing community to keep going, but we understand the cost of living crisis is making things tough for many people. 

Here are 7 ways you can support Rotherham Hospice for free!

1. Be a social star!

Help us reach more supporters by following, liking, commenting and sharing our posts on social media.

We don’t have a big budget to get our message out there, so by interacting with them, you’re really helping us get seen!

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Follow us!

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2. Smile.Amazon

Amazon will donate 0.5% of your purchase to Rotherham Hospice at no cost to you!

Whatever you’d usually buy off Amazon, shop via Smile.Amazon instead and choose Rotherham Hospice as your cause to fundraise by buying your every-day essentials.

3. EasyFundraising

Shop many of your favourite online retailers via EasyFundraising and in return for using their links while you shop online, they will make a donation to Rotherham Hospice at no cost to you.

Find out how to support Rotherham Hospice at EasyFundraising.org.uk.

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Rotherham Hospice Charity Shop

4. Have a clear out

Donate your no longer needed clothes, toys & furniture to our charity shops.

Got lots to donate? Call our Town Centre shop to arrange a collection on 01709 367 802.

Learn more about the Rotherham Hospice shops here.

5. GiftAid it

Are you a UK taxpayer? You can Gift Aid donations of belongings, as well as cash. Completing a Gift Aid form in store adds 25% to the value of what you give. 

Once the items you donated have sold, we will tell you how much they raised and you then confirm that the money can be treated as a Gift Aid donation – paid for by the government, at no cost to you.

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event volunteers in red rotherham hospice t-shirts

6. Volunteer

Want to learn new skills? Meet new people? Contribute to your community?

Volunteering might be for you.

Rotherham Hospice has lots of opportunities, from shop assistant, to event volunteer, to gardener and more.

Contact us here: volunteering@rotherhamhospice.org.uk

7. Make a free will

Rotherham Hospice works with Make a Will Online who make it simple, safe and secure for our supporters to make a will and leave a gift to Rotherham Hospice.

Leaving a gift in your will helps us enormously in our future planning and costs you nothing now.

Find out how you could make a free* solicitor checked will here. *Limited number of free wills available each month.

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Why your support matters

Rotherham Hospice cares for families experiencing an end-of-life illness, both physically and emotionally. As a charity, Rotherham Hospice needs to raise £3 million each year to fund vital end-of-life services. We can’t do it without our amazing supporters like you. Thank you.