Bro C Bird (SW), W Bro R Gwatkin (WM), Vikki Fitzgerald, Katie Danby, Evie Gunnell, Bro K McMaster (JW)

The Worshipful Master of Lord Bolton Lodge,  Robert Gwatkin, who has chosen Dove House Hospice as his charity of the year, invited Katie Danby, Vikki Fitzgerald and Evie Gunnell to present their ‘Great Wall of China Trek Challenge’ for 2025.

The talk also gave an overview of what the hospice does and has done for over 40 years for the people of East Yorkshire, and took place at a white table dinner after our January lodge meeting.

The ladies discussed the range of services available for people over the age of eighteen years who have a progressing life-limiting illness, including cancer, neurological illnesses, heart and respiratory disease, dementia and HIV/AIDS.

Patients and families are at the heart of everything they do, whether caring for people at the end of their lives, providing therapies to help people with life limiting illnesses improve their quality of life, or giving much needed bereavement support to grieving families. Their special person-centred care focuses on the needs of the person they are caring for, not just their illness, and staff take the time to get to know patients and their families to help make staying at Dove House a home from home experience.

The ‘Great Wall Of China Trek Challenge’ is a way to help raise funds and to help raise awareness of Dove House Hospice and the services they provide as the majority of their income is from donations.

A thoroughly enjoyable and informative evening was had by all in attendance, and the Lord Bolton Lodge has so far donated £472.50 with a further £300 kindly added by FCYNER.