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Making every day matter – our impact

On this page, you’ll find a series of short films made with members of our ward teams who talk about how they’ve made a day matter for a patient.

Our charity’s purpose includes our commitment to work with our local community in Cornwall to make every day matter to us all. You’ll also find a link to our Impact report – our annual publication that gives an insight into our charity and aims to answer your questions about our work.

You can read stories from around our charity illustrating what we do, how we go the extra mile and how other people go the extra mile for us.

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Our latest impact report – ‘Making every day matter’

Welcome to our latest impact report launched in October 2024 and titled ‘Making every day matter’. It reflects on the importance of making each day matter for our patients, their carers, families and friends and highlights what our charity has achieved during the last financial year thanks to the support of our Cornish community.

Read the stories of our frontline staff as they recall moments when they’ve helped make a day matter for a patients, learn more about our bereavement services and how they ‘re benefitting people across Cornwall and discover how important our fundraising and retail activities are to our charity that’s almost entirely funded by people like you.

Click the button below to read ‘Making every day matter’ online.

Making Every Day Matter Stories

As part of the 2023/2024 impact report “Making Every Day Matter” we interviewed a number of our hospice staff – nurses, healthcare assistants, housekeeping – who shared with us some of the memories they have of when they made a day matter. You can watch their stories below – click on the arrow button to play each film.

You can also listen to the latest episode our podcast ‘Two Old Choughs: A Tale of Two Hospices’. Hosts Tamsin and Gina listen to the interviews and discuss the themes featured. Click below to play this episode, or find it on your usual podcast player – we’re on Spotify, Apple and Google podcasts and more.

Cornwall Hospice in action over 24 hours!

We’re very proud of our This is What We Do film that shows us in action, doing what we all do to ensure hospice care is there for those who need it in Cornwall.

It was filmed in real-time with no actors, no rehearsals, no setup scenes and featuring the sounds of our charity. Sound provides a beat to the rhythm of life at Cornwall Hospice Care.

What you’ll see was captured by us as things happened, with no frills, second takes, or fancy equipment. We captured our charity in action over 24 hours in July 2022 as we hosted a major fundraising event, accepted donations, sold them in our shops, and cared for patients.

We’re indebted to Idenna Creative for their great ideas, advice, technical know-how and practical help to help us get to a finished film that we are all incredibly proud of.

Previous editions

Previous versions of ‘Our Impact’ are also available below. They show our work across the county and how we make a difference to terminally ill patients and their carers, family and friends.

“Because” was the title of our 2022/2023 impact report and reflects on the reasons people support, work and volunteer for us, our achievements this year and a look to the future of our Cornish Charity. It includes supporter Amanda who talks about her Dad and the care he received at St Julia’s Hospice, along with an insight from Lesley working in our Education team about why she enjoys being part of Cornwall Hospice Care. You can also read the story behind the Fontana Tranquillity Garden built at Mount Edgcumbe Hospice and read a touching letter we received from a user of our Walk Talk Kernow service.

“This is what we do” was the title of our 2021/2022 impact report, which included the incredible story of Liz and Luca, her horse and how she enjoyed precious time with Luca during her stay with us at our St Julia’s Hospice in Hayle. We also featured key statistics and get a more in-depth insight into our work.

Our 2020/2021 impact report “Our resilience and revival” captures the story of what was probably the toughest period in our charity’s 40-year history. Far from celebrating our Ruby Anniversary, we faced dark times. Covid-19 forced us to close shops, stop our fundraising activities and concentrate on keeping our key workers safe and our hospices open 24/7 for those end of life patients who needed us.

The 2019-20 version was titled ‘This is what it takes’ and looked at what it takes to deliver our care. It also featured Keith’s story about his wife Pat who was cared for at our Mount Edgcumbe Hospice and their experiences of end of life care and support.