Birmingham Hospice welcomes a new sensory garden
Birmingham Hospice charity has welcomed a new sensory garden by Persimmon Homes Central, one of the UK's largest house builders.
The garden came alive after a donation of £6,000 to the hospice earlier in the year for their Room to Care appeal.
This was followed by a team of volunteers giving their time to supply and create at the Erdington premises.
The fantastic looking garden makes for a wonderful addition to the hospice and gives those that they care for living with a life-limiting illness and their families a tranquil area to enjoy and help make their final moments matter.
Luke Manley, senior business development fundraiser at Birmingham Hospice, said: “We cannot be more thankful to Persimmon Homes Central for their invaluable support and wonderful creation of our new sensory garden at our Erdington site. Seeing it transformed from an unused area into place of beauty was simply amazing.
“Thanks to the kindest and generosity of our new green fingered friends, our patients, their families and the Birmingham Hospice teams can now enjoy a fantastic mixture of sounds, smells and textures, while making every moment matter.
“It costs around £16 million to run Birmingham Hospice each year and thanks to Persimmon Homes kindly donating and creating our new sensory garden, we can continue to fund other vital care services across our hospice and community when people need us most.”
Neil Williams, managing director at Persimmon Homes Central, said: “What we do is about so much more than building quality homes; it’s also about supporting the communities in which we build in a number of ways.
“At Persimmon, we encourage our team to volunteer their time to causes close to their hearts and it’s great to be able to unveil the new sensory garden at Birmingham Hospice, helping to create a welcoming environment in their open spaces and celebrate the team’s hard work bringing the area to life.”
Birmingham Hospice is the primary provider of adult hospice care in the city and its surrounding areas, offering expert palliative and end of life care completely free of charge to those living with a terminal diagnosis, and their families.
If your business is able to support the vital care Birmingham Hospice provide, they would love to hear from you.
