Scruton Jazz and Blues performed a charity fundraiser to a sell-out audience at Thirsk and Sowerby Town Hall recently.
The event was organised by Susan Rogers, a member of the Rotary Club of Adventurers, to raise money for Herriot Hospice.
Susan said: “I’ve been a huge supporter of Herriot since joining Rotary and three years ago suggested a jazz supper event to which I’d bring my old jazz band from Buckinghamshire to play.
“Unfortunately we couldn’t agree on a date, so the project was mothballed. Three years on though, I have a new local jazz band, so the event was resurrected and eventually happened, and I’m delighted that we raised just over one thousand seven hundred pounds for Herriot.
“The other reason it was such a successful event was we had three Rotary clubs working together, and the Thirsk club in particular provided several volunteers to run the bar and raffle”
In recent years, Herriot acquired the former Lambert Memorial Hospital which they have been converting to support local families living with terminal illness and bereavement, and is due to open in a couple of months.
The new local hospice will offer inpatient hospice care, bereavement support rooms, a café and community hub facility – providing a warm and welcoming place to visit and stay for local people.
The space will also be an important base for Herriot’s existing and growing home service, which already offers care to families in the comfort and safety of their own homes at the end of their lives; as well as their own wellbeing services. Herriot Hospice at The Lambert brings inpatient hospice care closer to home for families in Thirsk, Northallerton and across Hambleton and Richmondshire.
It will mean people don’t have to make long and uncomfortable journeys when they, or someone important to them, is at the end of their life.
Lucy Turner, community and events manager for Herriot Hospice Homecare, said “The amount raised is wonderful and I’m so glad that this event eventually happened.
“On behalf of Herriot I’d like to say a huge thanks to Susan and SJB for providing an entertaining evening and also Thirsk Rotarians and other volunteers for ensuring that it ran smoothly”
Susan said the pie and peas supper, supplied by Johnsons of Thirsk, went down a treat and there was a table piled with raffle prizes including a donation of a bottle of whisky by Stevenson Forecourts in Northallerton and a shop voucher from the White Rose book café in Thirsk.
“Thank you to all who came and supported the event so generously,” she added.
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