BURY Hospice is appealing to people's good natures and asking them to pledge their money in a random act of kindness.

The hospice team has launched a new Random Acts of Kindness campaign, calling on the people of Bury to pledge £5 each month to help them raise funds to care for those facing life-limiting conditions.

It costs more than £2.76million to run the hospice, of which 22.4 per cent comes from the NHS/Bury Clinical Commissioning Group, which means the hospice relies on the community to raise just over £2.3million.

Donating £5 a month to the hospice for one year would pay for three hours of specialist nursing care. Eight people doing the same would pay for a full day's care.

Rachel Wallace, Head of Fundraising and Marketing, said: “A fiver a month would buy three hours of specialist nurse time, equipment for our bereavement group and help replace medical equipment. There’s so much more to Bury Hospice than meets the eye – we look after the whole person, their spiritual; emotional and social needs as well as their medical needs. Nothing is too much for us as long as we can do it – we have held a wedding in our Japanese Gardens which enabled the mother of the groom to watch her son get married, we celebrate birthdays and anniversaries and all these things are the added extra that make all the difference to the patients and families we look after. We need your help — setting up a standing order with us will make all the difference.”

The campaign launch coincided with the national Random Acts of Kindness Day 2020, marked on February 17.

Sara Thomas, Corporate and Events Fundraiser, is driving the campaign to encourage people to give.

Sara said: “It feels good to give and do something kind and that’s why at the hospice we are encouraging the community to feel that great feeling.

“A random act of kindness no matter how small can make a tremendous impact on someone else’s life."

Each day, the hospice has been sharing stories about why people have given their support and of the positive impact the hospice has had.

Standing order forms are available to download on the hospice website.