Richmond raises £20,000 for Shooting Star Hospice

It has been a really positive start to the New Year for the Shooting Star Children's Hospice who received £20,000

through fundraising by the former mayor Councillor David Marlow.

With thanks to Richmond residents Councillor Marlow visited the

Hampton hospice before Christmas to hand over the donation raising money

through events, a golf day and an annual ball.

He

said: "I have seen the heart warming service which the staff and medics at

Shooting Star provide, and I am very glad to have had an insight into their

work during my year as mayor. The £20,000 which local people have donated will

go a long way towards helping with the hospice's running costs, and I thank

everyone for that. The people using the hospice face incredible emotional

turmoil, as well as severe medical problems, and the way the staff have helped,

talked to and comforted them and their families, many who are at their wits'

end, is remarkable."

Mike

Hey, Shooting Star's head of community fundraising, said: "Councillor Marlow

was a great source of support throughout his year in office. To have collected

this amount of money was phenomenal, but to have raised awareness of the

hospice has been invaluable to us. He gave us a platform in the community which

we are very grateful for."