Strathcarron Hospice

🎅 What a wonderful festive opening weekend at our @HowgateShoppingCentre Santa's Grotto!

🎁Pop in to visit Santa and his elves over the next few weeks and receive a small gift.

📍 Howgate Shopping Centre
📆 10am–4pm Saturdays & Sundays
👛 £5 per child - drop in

All proceeds go to Strathcarron💙

⭐ WIN A CAMPER VAN ⭐

George is kindly raffling off a campervan to raise funds in aid of Strathcarron in memory of wife Gaynor who died in the hospice.

Tickets priced £5 each can be bought at ggontwowheels.com/raffle/

Read more about their story ➡️ www.strathcarronhospice.net/news/george-...

When you donate to our Season's Greetings appeal, we send a special e-card which has been designed by Evelina from Wallace High School. Evelina said,

“I’m so proud to help raise money for Strathcarron and that my Christmas card was the winning design”

www.strathcarronhospice.net/Appeal/seaso...

Sending Season's Greetings 🎄

Many people have moved away from sending physical cards at this time of year and instead opt to make a donation to charity. We are hugely grateful to everyone who chooses Strathcarron Hospice as their charity of choice 🩵

www.strathcarronhospice.net/Appeal/seaso...

On this day, Monday 1st December 2025, all our services in the Hospice and across the local community are being paid for by the family of Alan James Brisbane, in his memory.

Alan's family and friends have fundraised tirelessly since he was cared for at home by our Hospice at Home Team in 2021🩵

🚴Lorna, Jamie and siblings Elaine and Paul have completed 309 miles cycling from London to Paris raising an incredible £21,000 for Strathcarron Hospice in memory of loved ones cared for by the hospice 💙

Read their story ➡️ www.strathcarronhospice.net/news/friends...

#cycling #charity

🕯️CANDLE LIGHT SERVICE 2025 - REGISTRATION CLOSED🕯️

Registration for in-person attendance of our annual Candlelight Service has now closed due to reaching maximum capacity. Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Watch the service on our Facebook live stream Tuesday 2 December at 7pm

“This role has been very rewarding - I hope I've given as much back to the patients.”

We bid a fond farewell this week to Sandra, a Rehab Assistant and latterly Physiotherapist with our AHP team as she moves on to a new role. Sandra also helped volunteer in our garden 🌻

We'll miss you Sandra 💙

🌟Light Up A Life Appeal🌟

Donate to the hospice and dedicate a ‘Strathcarron Star’ on our website for a loved one and see it sparkle in our virtual ‘Starry Sky’.

💙You can choose to leave a personal message and you will also receive a digital card acknowledgement.

ℹ️www.StrathcarronHospice.net

🍾🎉🥳 LET'S LUNCH - Sunday 10th May 2026🥳🎉🍾
⏰ 12noon - 5pm
📍 Glasgow Westerwood Hotel, Cumbernauld
www.strathcarronhospice.net/Event/lets-l...

Join us for another unmissable afternoon filled with fun, fizz, friends and fundraising

🎤 NEW PODCAST EPISODED where Donna Ashworth reveals how her very first grief poem, “When You Say Goodbye to a Parent,” was written after visiting Lynn’s mum here at Strathcarron.

“I thought a hospice was just a building - but it’s so much more.”
-Donna Ashworth

Now open for bookings!

It seems to come around quicker every year - our Christmas Tree Recycling scheme is open for bookings:

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#treecycling #HospiceCare

We were honoured to host the first @SobellEducation Scottish Masterclass in #PalliativeCare last week with Dr Mary Miller - Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Oxford Centre for Education and Research in Palliative Care.

Read more➡️ www.StrathcarronHospice.net/news

#hospice #education

📢 We're recruiting 📢 Join the team!

We have an exciting opportunity for a Consultant in Palliative Medicine to contribute to shaping the ongoing development of Strathcarron Hospice.

Find out more and apply: www.strathcarronhospice.net/Pages/FAQs/Category/Job-vacancies

Closes: 5pm Fri 28 Nov

Brilliant news! 🎉

Our Compassionate Communities Team has been awarded £167,547 from @TNLComFund to expand work in Slamannan, Bainsford/Langlees and beyond.

Thanks to MP Euan Stainbank for visiting today and highlighting our work in Parliament.

⭐Thank you @RotaryGmouth & @McDonaldsUK Community Foundation for their recent £5000 donation!

The local Rotary group is also generously hosting Santa’s Grotto @HowgateShoppingCentre from Sat 29 Nov £5 per child with proceeds to the Hospice 💙

More info➡️www.StrathcarronHospice.net/news

A GOOD DEAL TO DO A GOOD DEED....

Sign up for our 2026 Firewalk or Falkirk Wheel Abseil and enjoy £5 off your entry fee with our special Black Friday offer 🤩

Offer will run until Sunday 30th November or until events sell out.

Make this your Black Friday deal to remember 🖤

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💙 Join us in the Hospice grounds on Tuesday 2 Dec at 7pm for a special Candlelight Celebration Service, to celebrate the lives of those we love and remember.

Pre-register by Sunday 30 Nov➡️ www.strathcarronhospice.net/candlelight-...

⭐ Congratulations to our clinical staff who have been praised for their work supporting resident doctors in training by NHS Education for Scotland (NES).

Feedback came from newly qualified foundation doctors, GP registrars and specialty registrars. Read more ➡️ www.StrathcarronHospice.net/news

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

'For the Fallen' Poem by Laurence Binyon

#RemembranceDay2025

105-year-old Marion lives in a residential care home and was experiencing #loneliness and isolation as she didn’t have many visitors...until she forged a friendship with our volunteer Compassionate Neighbour befriender Lesley💙

Read more ➡️ www.StrathcarronHospice.net/news

#BefriendingWeek

Our Papermill Cafe welcomed special visitors today attending a ceremony of remembrance for those in the Armed Forces, held at Stirling Health and Care Village @nhsforthvalley

During the poignant ceremony, a member of our team lay a wreath on behalf of the hospice 💙

#ToAbsentFriends

#ToAbsentFriends Week 1-7 Nov gives people across Scotland an opportunity to remember, tell stories, celebrate and reminisce about people we love who have died.

Our Compassionate Communities team has supported communities to host remembrance events this week ➡️bit.ly/3SOy1nR

#loss #grief

We’re inviting local Schools and Nurseries to take part in our Schools Santa Day in aid of Strathcarron. Each participant will receive a Santa hat for a minimum suggested donation of £1 and you can decide how best to make the day special within your own setting. Sign up below:

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George Talbot will travel over 4500 miles on motorbike from Sydney to Perth to honour one of wife Gaynor’s life goals she never got to realise, in aid of Strathcarron.

The Falkirk couple spent Gaynor's final 22 days of life together in the hospice💙

Read more ➡️ www.strathcarronhospice.net/news

☕ With the fantastic success of our new Papermill Café in Stirling Health and Care Village we are looking to #recruit more full and part time catering staff both there and within the Hospice.

Visit our website to find out more www.strathcarronhospice.net/Pages/FAQs/Category/Job-vacancies

📢VOLUNTEER APPEAL 📢

☕With the fantastic success of our new Papermill Café in Stirling Health and Care Village we are urgently seeking volunteers to join our team!

If you can commit to 4hrs per week Mon-Fri we would love to hear from you!

More info➡️ www.strathcarronhospice.net/news

#volunteering

Have you been part of our incredible Strathcarron history?

As part of our 45th anniversary celebrations in 2026 we are looking for photos, stories or memories of the hospice - from staff, patients & their families to volunteers and fundraisers.

💻 Email to communications@strathcarronhospice.net

🎄 Make Christmas magical and visit Santa in his Grotto @Thistles_SC whilst helping raise funds for Strathcarron!

💙 Make Reindeer food for Rudolph, sit in Santa’s magical sleigh and receive a gift while supporting those in need.

🎅 Book here ➡️ thistlesstirling.com/events/santa...

💡Did you know Strathcarron Hospice has a special lymphoedema service?

Lymphoedema is a collection of lymph fluid which cannot drain away.

Margaret Anne, one of our specialists, shares an average day in the life for the team.

#lymphoedema #oedema