Freemasons support Compton Care with grant to help services
Wolverhampton's Compton Care has been supported with a grant of £1,985 from Staffordshire Freemasons.
Staff and volunteers have said they were delighted at the news.
The grant from Staffordshire Freemasons comes through the Masonic Charitable Foundation (MCF), and will be used to support patients living with an incurable illness through medical and emotional care.
This is just one of 218 grants to hospices around the country from Freemasons. In total £750,000 will be donated to hospices all over England and Wales this year.
This includes £300,000 which will be distributed to each hospice that receives less than 60 per cent funding from the NHS.
A further £450,000 will be provided to individual hospices across England and Wales via Hospice UK, the national charity for hospice care.
MCF is partnering with Hospice UK to widening access and address barriers to local hospice services for local people who are homeless or have learning disabilities.
Contributions from Freemasons to hospices have exceeded £13 million in England and Wales since 1984.
Suzanne Davies, senior trusts fundraiser from Compton Care said: "It is incredible that Staffordshire Freemasons support others who need help especially at this special time of year.
"We’d like to say a huge, huge thank you to them for the grant of £1,985 which will help patients celebrate Christmas with their families’
Dr. John Skellern from Provincial Grand Charity Steward, Staffordshire Freemasons added: "I’m very pleased we’ve been able to assist Compton Care. They do an outstanding job helping people with life limiting conditions, as well as supporting their families through very difficult times."
