{"id":172039,"date":"2025-12-07T08:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/172039\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T08:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:58:07","slug":"hospice-at-home-west-cumbria-hails-benefits-of-150000-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/172039\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospice at Home West Cumbria hails benefits of \u00a3150,000 grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The organisation, which has its head office in Workington, is the only provider of adult hospice-at-home services in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Running since 1987 and currently with just over 60 staff, it needs to raise about \u00a31.5m annually to help cover its operating costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Finding those funds, Miss McKay says, is a constant battle and without support from the community and local businesses &#8220;it would be very difficult to keep going&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We can&#8217;t thank everyone enough who helps us ensure people can leave the world in a comfortable and dignified manner,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tracey West, head of social impact at Sellafield Ltd, echoed those comments, saying the funding awarded by the company meant families in west Cumbria &#8220;can access compassionate, high-quality services when they need them most&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The organisation, which has its head office in Workington, is the only provider of adult hospice-at-home services in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-172039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}