Earlier this month a team of 49 individuals made up of hospice staff and volunteers including businesses from around Kent came together to help Heart of Kent Hospice in Aylesford collect 672 Christmas Trees from residents in and around the boroughs of Maidstone and Tonbridge and Malling as part of a Christmas Tree recycling campaign which has raised £12,120 for the Hospice.
Residents were able to go to the Hospice website and book for their tree to be collected over the first weekend in January. Volunteers used a fleet of 23 vans to pick up the real Christmas trees from individual addresses before chipping partner The Gallagher Group and the National Trust’s Igtham Mote chipping the trees to use around their estates.
This was the second year that the Hospice has worked with Ightham Mote who were able to chip approximately 300 of the trees. All the chippings were donated to local primary school, Weald Community Primary School in Sevenoaks, for them to use in their forest school play area.
The Hospice is grateful to all the following businesses who generously supported the Christmas Tree Recycling campaign:
- Alon Interiors
- Bison Print
- Brakes
- CS Heating
- Handikram
- JDL Distribution
- Midas Waste
- Milletts Electrical
- Phoenix Plumbing & Heating
- Pirtek
- Royal Mail
- TPS Global
- The Merit Group
- Volmech
The Hospice would like to expand the Christmas Tree recycling scheme each year so please do get in touch if you would like to volunteer for next year’s initiative at communityfundraising@hokh.co.uk
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About Heart of Kent Hospice
Heart of Kent Hospice has been providing free, compassionate, end-of-life care to people living with a terminal illness and their loved ones in Maidstone, Aylesford, Tonbridge and Malling and the surrounding towns and villages for the past 34 years.
The Hospice has built an excellent reputation within the local community for the quality of its care, which has been further endorsed by the Care Quality Commission who awarded us with an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ following an inspection in February 2017.
Our vision is for everyone living with a terminal illness in our community to achieve the best quality of life. We are committed to achieving this by enabling them to live in comfort, with independence and dignity to the end of their lives, and to support those closest to them.
Last year the Hospice cared for over 2,000 patients and their families in their own homes or at our Aylesford-based Hospice. Our charity needs to raise £6.6 million to deliver all the Hospices services, and we depend heavily on our loyal community of supporters, whose generous donations and fundraising activities raise money for us every year.
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