Durham Fringe Festival has raised £600 for St Cuthbert’s Hospice in a joint effort with audience members, volunteers and performers at this year’s Durham Fringe Festival. St Cuthbert’s Hospice is an independent charity funded primarily by voluntary giving. Like the Durham Fringe Festival, the Hospice was started by the local community, where more than three decades ago a group of Durham residents saw the absence of care and support available for those coming to the end of their lives and decided to take action. St Cuthbert’s Hospice opened its doors in 1988 and the charity is also able to support people with life-limiting illnesses and people who have been bereaved.
It was this ethos that struck a chord with organisers of the Durham Fringe Festival who saw the Hospice as a worthy cause. People were able to add an optional donation at online checkout when purchasing festival tickets.
Jade McArdle, Community and Events Manager at St Cuthbert’s Hospice said:
“We’d like to thank Durham Fringe Festival for choosing us as their charity partner for this year’s event. We were able to welcome some of the team and one of the Fringe performers along to the Hospice to bring a little bit of the Durham Fringe atmosphere to our Living Well Centre guests earlier in the summer, which got everyone really excited about the Festival! We’d like to thank all those who chose to add a little extra to their ticket cost, no matter the size of donation, everything adds up and helps us to continue to care for those in our local community here in Durham and the wider County.”
Stephen Cronin, Festival Director, remarked:
“It has been an absolute pleasure to partner with St Cuthbert’s this year as our Festival charity and it is a privilege for us to present them with this funding, from one community organisation to another. They started life in a similar way to us, as a vision of a group of local Durham people, so we and our supporters really resonate with their story. They do some amazing work and make an incredible difference in the lives of their clients and the families that work with them. Our donation has been a team effort between our visitors, our volunteers and the festival organisers, so we would like to say a big thank you to everyone who gave so generously to the cause.”
The £600 donation will help the Hospice to continue to provide free care and support to people with life-limiting illnesses, people approaching the end of life and people that are bereaved.
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