News

MONDAY 31^st                

 

• Sensory Story Time with Caroline will take place in the Seaside Room from 1:30-3:00pm for Derian families.

 

TUESDAY 1^st

 

• Individual sessions of Music Therapy with Martha will be taking place in The Snug from 3.00-5.00pm this afternoon.

 

• 新年快乐… Happy Chinese New Year! We’ll be getting up to all sorts of activities throughout the hospice today to celebrate Year of the Tiger!

 

• Derian Play Group will take place in the Seaside Room from 10:00-12:00 for our 0-5 year olds and their families.

 

• We have a group of seven volunteers from HSBC coming today to help finish the new Reflection Garden. They’ll be helping with the planting of new plants and washing the memorial pebbles. Shuna and Linda will also be making an appearance from 1:30-2:00pm.

 

WEDNESDAY 2^nd

 

• Join our music teacher Rachel Toner in from 11am for a sing-a-long in The Snug.

 

• Derian House GPs Meeting will take place this afternoon.

 

• Similar to yesterday, we’ll have a group of six volunteers from HSBC visiting us to finish off the Reflection Garden.

 

THURSDAY 3^rd

 

• Everyone’s favourite Pets as Therapy dog, Shuna, will be arriving at Derian with her human Linda for their weekly visit.

 

• David (CEO), Dawn (Family and Young People Services Manager), Luke (Head of Facilities and Infrastructure) and Lee Graham (LifeNoW Nurse) are visiting Bolton Hospice this morning.

 

• A group of our bereaved families will be coming to the hospice to view the new Reflection Garden and lay their child’s pebble this afternoon.

 

ANY OTHER BUSINESS

 

• January is Make a Will Month, so visit our Intranet article for how you can use our free Will facility to write your Will and support Derian House in the process.

 

• If you would like to share with the rest of Derian what your department is up to in the next 7 days, please send an email to cameron.murray@derianhouse.co.uk before Thursday the week before.

 

Have a great week everyone!