This local charity has played a part in each of our lives, caring for people across Shropshire and Powys, looking after 3,000 families last year alone. Their work is fully dependent on charitable funds, with 87p in every £1 donated spent on caring in the Hospices, with Community Nurses, and additional services including Complementary Therapies and Lymphoedema management.

Choosing this charity is especially poignant in view of the loss of two of our rowing friends last year to cancer - Marc Christian and Gary Richards with Gary having taken part in the same challenge in 2021. Both of who were cared for by Severn Hospice and their team. Phil also talks of how in 2015 his family received the news that his mum (Helen) had been diagnosed with MND (motor neurone disease), and In late 2017, was given a bed in the Shrewsbury Severn Hospice. The Hospice team worked around the clock to care for his mum and also for his family, with Helen sadly passing away on the 19th December 2017.