charity of the year

Gard & Co.’s nominated charity is St Luke's Hospice.

We are organising a number of fund raising activities to help raise funds for this very worthy  cause including (click on a link to find out more):

Plymouth Albion tag rugby tournament and family fun day

sponsored John O’Groats to Land’s End cycle

St Luke’s is a local charity caring for more than 2,000 patients with life limiting or terminal illnesses each year through the hospice or their community palliative care team who care for patients in their own home.

Their aim is to enable their patients to make the very best out of the life they have to live.  As well as treating their patients’ medical needs St Luke’s strive to ensure that they and those family members most immediately affected are supported emotionally and spiritually as well.  It is this breadth of care that makes St Luke’s so very unique and vital to our community.

The running costs for the hospice are more than £5m per year.  Unfortunately Government funding provides less than 30% of that figure so each year St. Luke’s has to raise £3.5m from the local community to carry on providing its services.

To find out more about St. Lukes and the work they do please visit their website by clicking here or on their logo above.