Month: December 2017

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Spread hope at Christmas

Spread Hope at Christmas

Designed by Dan Chubb

This year Ludlow Rotary’s Tree of Light is supporting Hope House Children’s Hospice. There are several reasons why this is a significant choice.

 

Jean and her late husband Harry Peachey have had long associations with Ludlow and charitable works. Among her many commitments Jean was an energetic member of Ludlow Rotary Club’s Inner Wheel. She was President in its fiftieth year. Harry and Jean were both awarded Paul Harris Fellowships by the club, its highest accolade.

Jean and Harry supported many charities but Hope House has a special significance for the Peachey family. Jean explained that Hope House Children’s Hospice was named after her great-niece, Hope Peachey, who died aged eight months. Hope House, Oswestry opened in May 1995 and since then many hundreds of terminally ill children and their families have been cared for there and in a second hospice, Ty Gobaith in North Wales.

Jean is now a resident in Hendra House, a family-run care home in Ludlow. Its owner/manager Vince Burmingham is a Ludlovian, and he, his staff and residents have supported the Tree of Light over the years.

The connections continue. Ludlow Rotary Club have over many years supported a minibus which collects elderly Ludlow residents and takes them to day centres and on day trips. Rotarians are among the rota of drivers and helpers. Hendra House residents have often benefitted.

If you would like to make a dedication the forms are available at Nock Deighton, Hope Hospice Shop and St Laurence’s in Ludlow, or online at www.ludlowrotartyclub.org.uk. If you prefer to donate online go to the Ludlow Tree of Light at BT My Donate 

12/12/17.

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Tree of Light helps Ruth remember her sister Joyce

Ludlow born and bred, nonagenerian Ruth Eades, nee Moreley, enjoys remebering her sister Joyce and Joyce’s husband Roy Wilton by making a dedication each year to the Ludlow Tree of Light. Ruth has been making dedications very year since the Tree of Light started in 2008 and sees it is an opportunity to remember happy times and show she still thinks of her sister and her sister’s family.  Her message this year reads, Much loved sister Joyce and brother-in-law Roy. Greatly missed every day with love from Ruth

Rotarian Sue Fleetwood, who has been helping to collate the dedications over the last ten years, said “We are very grateful to some families who have supported the Tree of Light year after year. I also enjoy entering dedications celebrating grandchildren. You can see new names being added, year on year. It’s a public way of expressing remembering and celebrating, as well as helping the chosen charities. Over the years the Tree of Light has raised thousands of pounds for local charities.” This year’s charity is Hope House Hospice.

Most dedications are handwritten but for those who prefer to donate electronically the Tree of Light now has an online site at https://mydonate.bt.com/events/ludlowrotarytreeoflight/451543. Dedication forms are available in Ludlow at Hope House Hospice shop, Nock Deighton’s office and St Laurence’s Church or can be downloaded from www.ludlowrotaryclub.org.uk where you can find this year’s dedications to date. The final list will appear in the Ludlow Advertiser and in the Book of Celebration and Remembrance in St Laurence’s Church.

07/12/17.