Countdown to Bring a Pound to Work Day on Yorkshire Coast

One of the Yorkshire Coast's best loved fund raising events returns on Tuesday July 1st.

Bring a Pound to Work Day is back to help celebrate Saint Catherine's 40th Anniversary.

The fundraising event returns in a week's time on Tuesday July 1st with local businesses invited to sign up for the day and encourage their staff to "Bring a Pound to Work" for the hospice.

On the day teams from Saint Catherine's, This is the Coast and Scarborough Business Ambassadors will be taking to the roads, visiting the hundreds of local businesses that sign up to support the event and collecting their coins. This is the Coast will turn over the entire day's output to the event with the collection teams broadcasting live from the businesses they visit.

Local firms who haven't yet signed up are being encouraged to so sooner rather than later at https://thisisthecoast.co.uk/poundtowork

John Smith is the Chef Manager at Saint Catherine's he has a very personal reason for taking on his new role running Flavours Restaurant at the hospice and is encouraging all local businesses to sign up for the fund raising event.

"I'm here because I lost my son tragically.

Seb Smith was a legend, he was 17, he contracted Leukaemia when he was 15., and  I needed to have a change and go somewhere I felt I was going to make a difference. And so yeah, I came to St. Catherine's.

It's hugely rewarding, it's really important to me and I feel like we are making a difference in what we're doing.

Bring two pounds to work. It makes such a difference.

You know, it's a really costly business running this place and there's not a lot of money available.

So anything, anything large or small helps."

  John says there's more to Saint Catherine's than just the hospice care.

"Obviously it's primarily about people here who, who need the medical attention or the respite care or the palliative care.

But those people are the families as well. Those families need to be looked after and their mental wellbeing and food really helps with that.

You know, if we can give 'em a sanctuary, you know, somewhere to go and, and somewhere where they can just relax and take their mind off all the pressures they're face in, uh, then that's, it's a good thing."

Susan Stephenson, fundraiser at Saint Catherine’s, said: 

“We are really excited to have Bring a Pound to Work Day back in our 40th anniversary year! It is such a brilliant fundraising initiative and brings in much-needed funds to ensure that our patients and their loved ones receive the very best care, at the time they need it the most. We encourage everyone to sign up and we will see you on 1st July when we call in to collect your kind donations.”

Susan Richings, a director at Scarborough Business Ambassadors, said: 

"I absolutely love to support St.Catherine's, not just because it supported my own parents on, on a journey, but because it's just a fabulous community place.

We're very lucky to have St. Catherine's Hospice in Scarborough, but it serves  a much wider area than Scarborough. So that certainly gets, gets my vote every, every day of the week, and I think being involved in Bring a Pound to Work day for the Scarborough community is just the thing we need to be doing, especially in this year because it's the 40th anniversary year, so we need everybody to dig deep, donate their pounds, and let's make a positive difference."

The idea of Bring a Pound to Work Day is as simple as it sounds – businesses, schools and organisations across the local area, including Scarborough, Whitby, Bridlington, Driffield and Ryedale, encourage their teams to ‘bring a pound to work’ and all the proceeds go towards helping Saint Catherine’s look after patients and their families, both in the hospice and at home.

Local firms wanting to support the event can sign up now using the online form at https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/poundtowork

Donations can also be made online or via SMS text message, details can be found at https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/poundtowork