Butterwick Hospice fundraiser, Scott Marshall, accepted the total of the donations made by shoppers visiting the Charity’s ‘Trees of Remembrance’ and Santa’s Grotto, sited inside the popular Castlegate Shopping Centre during December.
Scott Marshall, Fundraiser for Butterwick Hospice collected the donation of £4,522.57 from the Centre’s management team. This is the largest donation in the 6 years the Hospice has sited the Tree of Remembrance within the Castlegate Centre.
Scott said: “We are extremely grateful to the Castlegate Centre management team and the generous people of this area for their kindness to Butterwick Hospice this Christmas. It is amazing in such austere times how good people can be and how generous in giving to help someone less fortunate through the Hospice.”
“We look forward each year to meeting local people in the Castlegate Centre when they come to hang messages to loved ones on the Trees of Remembrance. It’s good to hear how the Hospice has helped so many local people over the years and a privilege to know you are representing such a well-loved cause.”
The Hospice provides special tags for people to write their messages on and invites them to hang the tags where ever they wish on the tree. Scott said: “We thought it was proving to be a very popular thing for people to do this year as we had to find a second tree to accommodate the number of tags.”
There is no set charge to hang a tag or to visit Santa’s Grotto. People are merely asked to make a donation to the work of Butterwick Hospice.
Scott passed on thanks to Karen Eve, General Manager, at Castlegate, for the opportunity to site the Trees of Remembrance within the shopping centre again this year. This is the 6th year the trees have been in place and in that time the Castlegate Centre has helped to raise £15,530 for Butterwick Hospice.
