Today the sun ☀️ was shining as some members of staff did our annual walk🚶‍♀️to remember our dear friend and colleague Alice. A donation will be given to St Columba's Hospice Care who looked after our lovely and much missed friend. 🩵

This month we’ve welcomed six new students to the Hospice who join us on placement from the Complementary Therapy School. Over the next few weeks, these students will learn first-hand about the role of complementary therapy in palliative care, and improve their skills!

Thank you to everyone who took time out of their busy lunch break yesterday to nominate us, and helped our chances of winning £5000!
There is still time to nominate us, and every vote counts! All you need is our charity number- SC003634

Thank you.
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Our Time to Remember event is in just over 2 weeks! The event will feature live music as well as space for remembrance, and the opportunity to make a keepsake in memory of a loved one.
Sign up for free today at bit.ly/4awO4hh

We'd like to say a HUGE thank you to Vivie & Innes, who held a bake sale for us earlier this month and raised £70.84! Not only did they make some fantastic cakes- it looks like they even managed to bring the sun out with them! Thank you girls!

Next Thursday's (11th April) Supporting your Child in Grief group has been cancelled due to the Easter Holidays. The next group will run on Thursday 9th May at 11am-12pm as usual. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Have you booked your place for the next #PalliativeArts No17 Talk at St Columba's Hospice Care !

Musical Synergy: An exploration of collaborative approaches with orchestras in children’s hospices
Victoria Kammin, 26th April

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#StColumbasArts #No17Talks QMU Music Therapy

Don't forget to book your place for the SPPC #PosterParadeEvent on Tuesday 26th March to hear from a fantastic line up of speakers including our very own Anna Lloyd and Donna Hastings.

Our next Time to Remember event is happening a month today, on Thursday 25th April! The event will feature live music as well as space for remembrance, and the opportunity to make a keepsake in memory of a loved one.
Sign up for free today at bit.ly/48YWWf1

Co-led with my dear colleague Anna Lloyd, this project focused on a pilot #music and #movement project for people with #Parkinsons and their carers

St Columba's Hospice Care QMU Music Therapy CPcPR

#StColumbasArts #Dalcroze

Thank you to the lovely team from Marriott Hotels Holyrood Hotel for their cracking donation of chocolate eggs. These will be a welcome treat for patients and visitors on our ward and those using our services during Easter.

If you're involved in #palliativecare don't miss the SPPC Poster Parade Event next Tuesday 3-5pm. We're looking forward to sharing our experience and learnings with everyone.

Poster 54 #SPPCParade24 St Columba’s Hospice Access Team: traversing routes into evolving hospice care services St Columba's Hospice Care jackie stone Tony Duffy

Poster 41 #SPPCParade24 Music and movement for people with Parkinson’s disease and their carers: A Dalcroze Eurhythmics pilot study within a hospice environment Dr Giorgos Tsiris

The #arts can play a vital role in building #bereavement aware #school communities! I hope 'The Emotion Labyrinth' work inspires other similar projects promoting the #BereavementCharter

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St Columba's Hospice Care NHS Education for Scotland (NES) NES Bereavement

Today is the #InternationalDayOfForests , but we know that it's so important to look after our environment every single day.

With that in mind, we're proud that through our fantastic print partners, GMP Print Solutions, we've planted 6 broadleaf trees in a community woodland in Edinburgh!

Do you like pubs?
Do you like quizzes?

Do you like getting a free drink with your ticket and 10% off your food bills?

If you answered yes to one or more of the above questions, chances are you’ll love our Pub Quiz, happening on 25th April at bit.ly/48WTpNv

We've reached halfway! Poster 33 #SPPCParade24 Influencing a restorative culture through the embedding of Resilience Based Clinical Supervision at St Columba's Hospice Care St Columba's Hospice Care jackie stone Tony Duffy