East Kilbride's MP joined Paul Chuckle in displaying assist for Marie Curie’s greatest fundraising marketing campaign.
Dr Lisa Cameron and the TV comic and entertainer, finest often known as one-half of comedy duo The Chuckle Brothers, are backing finish of life charity Marie Curie’s Nice Daffodil Attraction.
The MP pledged her assist to the Nice Daffodil Attraction and is encouraging her constituents in East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow to donate and put on one of many charity’s daffodil pins to assist fund important care and assist for individuals residing with a terminal sickness, and their households.
Donations additionally assist the charity’s info and assist line, which gives a listening ear to anybody coping with any facet of demise, dying and bereavement.
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The marketing campaign, held each March, was compelled to cancel its public collections for the previous two years as a result of pandemic. This 12 months, fundraising occasions and collections are going forward, and the charity is urging new and present supporters to come back ahead to point out their assist.
Final 12 months Marie Curie offered direct assist to greater than 69,000 individuals – a 15 per cent rise on the earlier 12 months – which is greater than ever earlier than.
Dr Cameron mentioned: “Each 5 minutes, somebody within the UK dies with out getting the care and assist they want on the finish of their life, and that additionally has an influence on these they depart behind who're grieving.
“From the professional care given by Marie Curie Nurses, by to the reassuring voices on the assist line its companies have by no means been extra in want. However they will solely proceed to achieve these in pressing want ofhelp with the generosity of the general public. That's the reason I'm supporting the Nice Daffodil Attraction this March.”
Ruth Driscoll, of Marie Curie, mentioned: “Over the previous 12 months, Marie Curie has delivered direct care to extra dying individuals than ever earlier than. Nonetheless, the pandemic isn’t over and the extra prices of working to make sure we maintain our beneficiaries and employees secure proceed which is why the Nice Daffodil Attraction is so necessary.
“We need to guarantee that everybody affected by terminal sickness, wherever they might reside, will get the suitable assist, on the proper time – whether or not that is top of the range nursing care, emotional and sensible assist, or quick entry to the advantages they want.”
On the annual Nationwide Day of Reflection (March 23), the charity is encouraging everybody to put on a daffodil pin and take a second to point out their assist for the tens of millions of individuals bereaved through the pandemic and keep in mind the individuals we’ve misplaced.
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