Hospice benefits from Strangford fundraiser

SIR, — The members of the Strangford and Ardglass NI Hospice Care Support Group would like to thank all of the Newcastle public who so very generously supported our annual ‘Reindeer Food’ collection in the Tesco Store, Castlewellan Road, on December 5-6 December. The magnificent total of £1,279 was donated for this very worthy cause.

We deeply appreciate the great generosity of the Newcastle public, and the courteous and friendly Tesco staff at the store and we want to applaud all of them heartily.

The NI Children’s Hospice helps to look after scores of life-limited children and young people across the Province each year, and very importantly it also supports their families. Every penny of our 2011 collection supporting this valuable work will be put to very good use.

As Hon. Sec. of the NI Hospice Support Group I would also like to thank all of the group members, their spouses and friends who stood and did the collecting this past weekend for their time and effort.

Yours etc.,

RALPH S. FORBES,

Strangford & Ardglass NI Hospice 

Support Group.