Since Bury Hospice opened in June 1991, the charity has helped thousands of people through the most difficult times in their lives with specialist, compassionate and palliative end-of-life care.
As an independent charity, it costs £4m to run our services with a 13 per cent contribution from the NHS.
The remainder is generated via our income generation streams and support from the community.
The hospice is fortunate to have such amazing support from the Bury community.
That was illustrated perfectly on bank holiday Monday, as Glaston-Bury returned with many entertaining acts taking to the stages around the town centre.
Thousands of festival goers packed into Bury for a day of entertainment and live music.
Glaston-Bury started in 2008 to celebrate the music scene and to raise money for Bury Hospice and other worthy charities.
Since then, the festival has extended to embrace more venues and bands.
With a total of 17 stages, six outdoor and 11 indoor there was something for everyone and the performers gave it their all.
Stages were set up in popular venues across the town including Earl of Derby, The Bank, Wyldes, Blind Tiger, Trackside, Cheers Bar, Wax and Beans, Monkey House, Broad Street Social, Hops and House of Bridget.
Over the years, the music festival has raised more than £250,000 for the hospice.
I would like to say a special thank you to Glaston-Bury organisers Chris Buckley, Lyndsey Hopkinson and Laura Higginson for making Glaston-Bury such a huge success and raising thousands of pounds for the hospice every year.
I would also like to thank all of the amazing volunteers who supported the event on the day.
Summer festival fever will return this Sunday (September 3) with our Proms in the Park concert at Burrs Country Park, as part of The Met’s popular music festival, Burrs Live.
The event, hosted by Jenna G, will feature the Untold Orchestra and there will be a spectacular line-up of music from popular movies, successful musicals and hit songs, all beautifully sung and played by talented musicians.
The afternoon concert will be an event for all of the family, combining the serene beauty of the park with the enchanting melodies of a live orchestra.
The event will begin at 1pm and tickets are available from The Met Booking Office, priced at £20 for adults, £10 for children under-16s, £50 for families of four (two adults and two children) plus £2 per person booking fee from The Met Booking Office at https://themet.org.uk/event/untold-orchestra/
I will look forward to seeing many of you there on Sunday, I’m sure it’s going to be another fabulous event while supporting the hospice.
For more information visit https://www.buryhospice.org.uk/events/proms-in-the-park.
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