To continue our Rewarding Recruitment Charity Campaign, Leah and Anne-Marie completed some corporate volunteering at St Peter’s Hospice in Brentry earlier this month in October.

About St Peter’s Hospice:

St Peter’s Hospice is a Bristol charity caring for adults with life-limiting illnesses, providing extended care and support to their families and loved ones. The Hospice plays a central role in palliative care services in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. The Hospice has more than 300 wonderful members of staff working across a broad range of roles requiring different skills, experience and qualifications.  Through a range of services, they have cared for over 30,000 people in the last 20 years. All care is free of charge, but it costs around £20,000 a day to run! For most of this money they rely on gifts in wills, donations, fundraising and their shops.

They are in the final weeks for completing a rebuild of the Inpatient Unit to include a significant ground floor extension plus expansion of the first floor. The project includes; 15 enlarged, ensuite, single bedrooms, all with a private garden terrace and improved nursing visibility of high dependency patients. Due to this re-development a large proportion of the lovely and well looked after grounds and garden areas have been demolished. This is where the help from Spec Recruitment comes in…

How we helped:

Leah and Anne-Marie joined Sarah, their Landscape Gardner to tidy up and clear out a garden area behind the car park, making this a useable and pleasant outdoor space. They cut back weeds and unwanted shrubs and reconstructed the supports for newly planted trees. They had a fantastic day, full of laughter! It was lovely getting to know the members of staff working at the Hospice and they look forward to returning once the building and construction work has been completed.

Thanks for having us St Peter’s Hospice!