St Margaret's Hospice Care’s Post

🧠 **Raising Awareness for Motor Neuron Disease (MND)** 🧠 Motor Neuron Disease (MND) is a progressive neurological condition that impacts the lives of thousands in our community, affecting motor neurons that control voluntary muscles. This debilitating disease leads to muscle weakness, paralysis, and eventually, difficulty in speaking, swallowing, and breathing. The effects of MND ripple through families and communities, creating emotional, physical, and financial challenges. Patients require comprehensive care and support, and caregivers often face immense pressure. Our community's resilience shines through in these trying times, but more awareness and support are crucial. We need to unite in supporting those affected by MND through fundraising, volunteering, and advocating for better healthcare resources. Together, we can drive research efforts towards finding a cure and provide much-needed hope and assistance to families battling this relentless disease. Join us in raising awareness and supporting our community members affected by MND. Every effort counts. 💙 #MND #MotorNeuronDisease #Healthcare #CommunitySupport #HopeForACure #Awareness

Update: I’m running because I can. I set goals because I like to smash them. Thank you for the donations so far, I have hit my $300 goal and tracking to hit 50kms half way through May with 20kms under my belt already. So I’m setting new goals. Support me as I smash my fitness & mindset goals in The May 50K to help raise funds to support life-changing research into the prevention, treatment and finding a cure for MS. https://lnkd.in/gyw9N-C2

In today’s ever changing environment mental health and well being is so so important

Some humble pie. One of my weakest character flaws is taking things TOO personally, especially when it comes to support of what we do at Blood Origins. I don’t know of a CEO/Executive Director in the same position, but I receive emails every morning from our donor platform of folks cancelling their support. The last couple of days have been especially tough in that regard. Every cancellation I take personally - what did I do? What did we do wrong? Could we have done more? Am I working hard enough? We are a non-profit. Non-profits operate off of the generosity and belief of others in us. We need funds to continue to do what we do. All we ask for is “the cost of a cup of coffee” a month. Most decide to give more than that. If you want to support us you can find the link in our BIO. I would be humbled by it. If you think we can do things better DM us, I’ll personally answer it (again pretty unique to non-profits in our space). Know this … I love what I do. It’s incredibly meaningful. I am humbled and grateful to be in this position. Thank you to those of you that support us, and I’m thankful for those who did support us to get to this point. If you want to support us👇🏼: https://lnkd.in/eHPJanCe

Sundeep Talwar ImpactGuru Is this justice for someone who is poor? Is Impact Guru a platform to help people or to run a business? A donation of 25K was received, but Impact Guru's charges and fees amounted to 12K, meaning only about 50% of the funds reached those in need. My connections and I donated 20K, which resulted in 7K going to your platform as business revenue, thereby reducing the actual donation by 7K for those who truly need it. I hope you review this to ensure that humanity remains a priority. https://lnkd.in/gTVqDeA8

I have to share this post for two reasons. One is that I am a proud trustee for Humanimal Trust and really believe in One Medicine for humans and animals (watch the video - Noel explains it better). The second is that I know how many will appreciate how ridiculously cute Noel’s cat, Richochet, is! #onemedicine #humanimaltrust

If you can, pause a moment and open the maps app on your phone. Take note of where you are right now - your physical location. Draw an imaginery circle at a distance of 14km away, and now look at what exists between here and there in each direction. How many people in this area need help and support? How many can you help? Not everyone, but at least someone. Now take a moment to think of where you're at in life. What's just ahead? And behind? Either side of you? How many people in your world right now that need some form of help? Again, you can't help everyone - but at least someone. What little can you contribute to those in need. On 11 August City2Surf gives you the opportunity to support a wide variety of charities. It's a 14km walk/run, and it will raise thousands of dollars, each one intended to benefit people who need your help. I've set myself a modest target to raise $200 for the SAN Foundation's cardiac services. If you haven't contributed through another charity yet, why not add your support today? Every dollar helps...

❤️❤️ A good news update ❤️❤️ Remember our gingerbread houses….??!! There is something I’m really good at 💡 IDEAS 💡 This was my idea, stood looking at them All on the table and pondering what to do with them all, it just popped out of my mouth Mat Burke made it happen I have been asked many times in varying situations including interviews ‘what are you really good at?’ I’m really good at ideas But it always feels like that’s a really lame answer, even though it’s the truth I have ADHD (diagnosed at 43) My brain works at 100 miles an hour It is full of ideas Over the years I have become more confident to share them, at the risk of sometimes not being taken seriously There isn’t always room for creativity on a team. There is room for people who follow processes, who can write plans and put things neatly in boxes, but not always people who take the lid off the box and let a whole load of crazy escape I am that girl The lid will come off In less than 5 minutes this went from an idea to a plan - that’s what I do There was some effort and logistical challenge moving them carefully to their destination, and there was Ofcourse the willingness of the team at the hospice to take delivery of a gingerbread world But our delivery team in store rose to the challenge and packed them carefully, and the hospice embraced the random phone call from me connecting them with the store via a contact I had made only a few weeks earlier (Caroline Peach)when I served their head of retail on my till; as any good fundraiser can do in less than 5 minutes I got a background story and connected on Linked in, the rest is history ☺️ Share the idea Take the lid off the box Ask the questions Embrace your curiosity You NEVER know where it will take you Or when it will help to transport a gingerbread village ❤️ #fundraising #networks #connection #engagement #curiosity #logistics #community #tesco #communication #redundancy #neurodiversity #adhd #neurodiversityatwork

Locals Supporting Local Hearts ♥️ We’re proud to share that Peninsula Dealer Group has donated $5,000 to support cardiology services at Peninsula Health. Thanks to the efforts across our seven dealerships, $4 from every service performed in October was pledged, raising $4,824 to help purchase advanced echocardiography software. This cutting-edge technology will enhance diagnostic accuracy, ensuring better outcomes for heart patients in our community. A big thank you to our team and our customers for making this possible—together, we’re driving positive change.

"Serving For Reason Living For A Purpose" Being compassionate, serene, civil, and noble is an art of life. Everyone of us live our life, but some really live a purposeful life. A purposeful living can help in enhancing the quality of our life. It takes lot of practice, self realization, self discipline, and self control. Try to focus on yourself first and see if you have an ego, hatred, jealousy and negativity. Start cleaning up the mess in your life and then slowly try to purify yourself to slowly start to enhance your life for a purpose. This teaches you to live in style for others. Caring, sharing, listening, helping, and also serving are the noble practices that we can adopt to support the community or society for a cause. It is ok to spend some of your valuable time in a day to help someone who is in a difficult situation. It is a form of charity that is much more valuable than donating money. Charity through money or donating is ok as long the money is not misused by others or compromised. Beneficiaries aling with the purpose should be served. In the case of charity through service, it's in your hands and the beneficiary is directly being helped or benefited from the service.