Thank you so much for taking the time to visit our JustGiving page in support of Kate's Home Nursing.

This year, Oddington Festival is taking a slightly different guise. As we emerge out of the pandemic, we are inviting the village and friends of Oddington to come together to enjoy a village picnic on Sunday 27th June 2021.

As well as a chance to get together after what's been an extremely challenging year for so many, we will have the joy of live music from ABBA MANIA and special guests, a bar and hopefully plenty of sunshine!

Bring a rug, a picnic and friends for a fun afternoon of laughter, good company and music!

The event is free to attend, but if you enjoy it and would like to show your appreciation, we would really welcome donations to Kate's Home Nursing.

We hope to see as many of you as possible! Thank you so much, take care and see you there!

The Oddington Fete Committee xx

About Kate's Home Nursing:

Kate’s Home Nursing is a local charity, employing the services of registered nurses to care for people in their own homes through the last stage of illness, offering support and care for the patient, their family and carers.  In addition to nursing, we offer respite care, bereavement support and some holistic therapy.

We work very closely with the District Nursing Service, our local GPs and other multi-disciplinary teams to provide our nursing service for our local community.

Kate’s Home Nursing was formed when Kate King, a resident of Stow on the Wold was unable to remain at home being cared for during her final days of life because there was no national or local provision to enable this. Sadly for Kate, even though her needs were fairly simple, her wish to die at home could not be accommodated and she died in a local cottage hospital.

However, Kate left a challenge; in her will she bequeathed a dresser to be sold and the proceeds to be used to create a charity to provide for others the care she so desperately wanted. Kate’s advice to the friend tasked with this was to ‘take a step of blind faith’ and so, with the help of some local people and Stow Surgery, in November 1996 Kate’s Home Nursing was formed.

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