A 12-strong team from KCOM Enterprise spent a day helping out at the brilliant Dove House Hospice this week, getting stuck in to make its gardens look their best for residents and their families.
The gardens are an important space at Dove House, which cares for people with life-limiting illness and gives them the best quality of life and palliative care, and are an area “where patients and families can spend precious time together in a quiet and peaceful setting, making memories”.
One of the green fingered volunteers, Executive Assistant Sue Coulson, who spent the day weeding, chopping trees back and de-mossing the front wall, said: “It was an amazing day, we all enjoyed it and I would highly recommend any other businesses who want to volunteer at the hospice to do so.
“It costs £10m to run Dove House every year, £9m of which they have to fund themselves through fundraising and donations. So, any extra help they can get is greatly appreciated. It’s a brilliant organisation that does great work for caring for people at the most difficult times, which has probably touched most of the families of people who work at KCOM.”
KCOM employees get two paid days a year to volunteer either at an event organised by the business or at a charity chosen by themselves. KCOM staff donate more than 1,000 of volunteering hours each year to help local good causes.
