2008: Hospice Shops' 20th Birthday year
Hospice Shops 20th Birthday Party
On Sunday 17th August, Hospice Shops celebrated their 20th Birthday in style - twenty years since Share the Care Ltd., (STC) was set up and the first shop opened.
There are six website pages record a most memorable 20th Birthday Party for you to enjoy; the first two record the Party Events and the next four are devoted to photos of the Shop Volunteers' tables. Click here for page one.
Nadene Crowther MBE retires
Nadene Crowther
MBE
In this twentieth year since the Hospice Shops trading company, Share the Care Ltd., coming into being, Nadene Crowther MBE., is stepping down as a director and from an active participation in running the affairs of our, highly successful, charity shops enterprise. As all who are familiar with Hospice, and beginnings in 1983, will know it was Nadene's vision and drive from which our Isle of Man Hospice became a reality.
There is a separate page on which we record our appreciation and thanks to Nadene for all she has done and achieved, through Hospice Shops, for patient care on the Island.
HRH Princess Anne opens our new Hospice
HRH Princess Anne
Monday 7th July 2008, was a Great Day for Hospice; we were honoured that Her Royal Highness, The Princess Anne, opened our New Hospice, Strang, Isle of Man.
There are now four pages of photographs, covering arrival to meeting the Governors, Special Guests, Staff, Patients and Volunteers, and unveiling the Commemorative plaque, all recording this very special day.
Flog-it Day in August 2008
A scene from the Flog-it Day, 3rd August
Flog-it in August - Sunday 3rd August on Noble's Park was a brilliant day - big crowds, nice and warm and much enjoyed by punters and stall holders alike.
Final accounts have yet to be agreed but preliminary figures show £3,500 going to Hospice to help pay for patient care, inpatients and in the community.
Thanks to everyone, stall holders and visitors who made it all possible. The Photo Gallery is online now - twenty-five super photos recording a super day.
If you would like your name on our e-mailing list for future Flog it Days there is a separate page where you can register.
Fancy Dress & Vintage Clothing Shop
Steve Colley
opened the Shop
The Fancy Dress & Vintage Clothing Shop - the seventh Hospice Shop - opened Thursday 19th June at 78 Bucks Road, next door to the Hospice Shop, 76 Bucks Road, Douglas.
What used to be known as our Prop Shop was located above the Saleroom in Allan Street and so popular it had to move to larger premises - much larger premises.
Read all about this on a separate page and now there is a selection of photographs illustrating the opening of the seventh Hospice Shop.
The Baby Boutique has reopened
Our Baby Boutique reopened Saturday 21st June, located upstairs, above the Allan Street Saleroom (Nos. 8-10), Douglas. Here you will find a wide choice of baby clothes, maternity wear, baby seats, and buggies, plus lots more.
Visit the Boutique page on this website
Like to know how Hospice Shops started?
Five of the original
Port St. Mary Shop Volunteers
pause for the camera
Hospice Shops started in Port St. Mary and showed just what could be done by volunteers and a very generous public.
There is a page about our first Shop, run by the South Rushen Fundraising Committee (the photo - right - taken in 1986 pictures five of the original volunteers) , and through the years - opening our shops from the first in Bucks Road to the sixth in Onchan. Follow this link to go direct.
Would you like to help in our Shops?
We need and always welcome new Volunteers in our six Shops, and just now we need more help in the Arbory Castletown shop.
If you have a few hours a week you could spare and would like to know more telephone Julie Jones at the Bucks Road office: 61 50 55. There is a page on this website which explains much more with a contact form as well.
"Every Penny worked for and every Penny Counts"
Hospice Shop Volunteers serve a
customer in the Onchan Shop.
Total Shop, saleroom, eBay, and recyclable receipts in 2008 continue at a high level despite our Ramsey Shop being closed for over two weeks for refurbishment; money paid to Hospice Care in the months, January to end of July was £239,500.
Once again, a really big thank you to our customers, to all those who gave - and continue to give - so many of the goods we sell in our six shops and three salerooms, and another very big thanks to our 200 plus Volunteers working in the Shops without whom none of this would be possible; “Every penny worked for and every penny counts."
Our eBay Shop is doing very well
Hospice Shops EBay
Studio at work
Would you like to know how our eBay Shops and studio works? There is a now page of photos and explanation.
Jewsbury & Brown’s
chemist is advertising plate
When getting ready for the Christmas Fair, Christine Kay, who looks after our eBay Shop, happened to notice a Shelly jelly mould in the Castletown Shop window and then spotted a rather special advert plate, so decided to bring this back to the office for sale in our eBay Shop, as items with adverts for shops always go well.
This fun plate from Jewsbury & Brown’s chemist advertises oriental tooth paste on a decorative background of various flowers which measures 23cm across. It was put up for auction and has made £535. Wow!
There is a separate page with more of our eBay news.
Are you Recycling? Yes! Then you can help us
Castletown Shop Manager, Anne Clague,
with Volunteers Dorothy Christian and
Anne Hollingworth,
bagging up a
a mobile phone each
Hospice Shops now have seven recycling bins around the Island and, hopefully, more to come during the year. This is in addition to our six shops where customers are encouraged to collect postal bags for old mobile phones and printer cartridges for specialist recycling. Full details are on another page
Since launching our policy of recycling - mobile phones, ink cartridges, plus unsaleable shoes and clothes, we can report income to the end of December 2007 of £24,000. Brilliant! It all helps.
Please use our recycling bins and continue disposing your old mobile phones and empty inkjet printer cartridges, all making money for Hospice at the same time.
There is a now a section of this website explaining our strategy of turning your unwanted clothes, shoes, mobile phones, and printer cartridges.
Like to know more about Hospice?
If you would like to know more about Hospice's service to the Island, there is a separate page explaining the depth and detail of our patient care.
As a Hospice Shops customer, or as a visitor to Hospice Shops website, could we ask you to think about making a donation towards patient care costs at Hospice? You can from this website - just follow this link to reach the donations page