insideKENT Magazine Issue 26 - May 2014 | Page 145

CHARITY Show your support for Demelza Hospice Care for Children DEMELZA’S NEW PLATINUM CLUB GO DOTTY FOR DEMELZA Every year, Demelza has to ensure it has enough funds to provide the care and facilities for all of the children and families who need their support. By joining Demelza's new Platinum Club, you would be helping them to ensure the future delivery of their high-quality care. Would you like to become a Demelza Platinum Member and help make a huge difference to the lives of the children and families in a really special way? To become a Platinum Member, you simply need to commit to donate at least £300 a year, either as a one off donation or as a regular monthly gift of £25. The club offers recognition for your wonderful support by providing the following: • Your name in Demelza's special Platinum Club book of members • Regular updates about the children and families you are helping • Priority invitations to major Demelza events • A Demelza Platinum Club lapel badge For mor information or a registration form, go to www.demelza.org.uk e or contact Damian Leonard on [email protected], or 01795 845245. REVAMP OF TEENAGE AREA Demelza is excited to announce a revamp to The Inclusion Zone (TIZ) at their Kent hospice. The TIZ – an area available to 15-year-olds and over – offers older children staying at Demelza a sense of independence and privacy. It also acts as a place in which they can relax and be teens. The fully interactive room currently includes top of the range computer equipment for homework and gaming, a TV and DVD player, table football and a kitchen area. The room was designed by teenagers in 2004 and won the Philip Lawrence award in 2005. Corporate supporters Catlin have very generously agreed to refurbish the 10-year-old area, in a bid to make it look brighter and funkier. The plans include an eye-catching mural, new flooring, a funky new fridge, new lighting and a disabled toilet. Work has already started and completion is expected this spring. It costs £14,000 to run Demelza’ two hospices and hospice at home s care service for just one day. Demelza gets very limited government funding, so it relies on the generosity of people like insideKENT readers to continue their vital work. Find out more about Demelza and all of their 2014 goings-on at www.demelza.org.uk 145 Schools, companies and individuals are being invited to Go Dotty for Demelza from 13th-20th June, while raising vital funds for Demelza Hospice Care for Children during Children’s Hospice Week. Organisations including NatWest, Nando’s and Charlton FC have already pledged to sport some spots with a dotty fundraiser, and 40 Greggs stores will be selling a special Demelza dotty biscuit during the week. Demelza’s Dotty mascot will also be out and about in a bid to spot those who are taking part. Get in touch if you would like a visit from Dotty on 01795 845288 or [email protected]. For more information about Go Dotty, log onto www.demelza.org.uk to download your fundraising pack and see some of the pictures from last year. And don’t forget to share your photos on Demelza's Facebook page, www.facebook.com/demelzahospice or Twitter, @demelzahospice #godotty. Natalie Tegg, Demelza’s head of partnerships said: “Our Go Dotty for Demelza campaign is back for 2014 but we need your help to make it bigger and better than last year. Please embrace the polka dot and do your bit for your local children’s hospice. Go Dotty is a fun way to support Demelza and it really does make such a difference to the work we can do with families across your area.”