Saint Catherine's Bring a Pound to Work Day Returns for 40th Anniversary

As Saint Catherine's marks it's 40th anniversary the Scarborough based Hospice has teamed up with This is the Coast for the return of Bring a Pound to Work Day

Saint Catherine’s says it is delighted that Bring a Pound to Work Day is back and will be taking place in partnership with This is the Coast on Tuesday July 1st 2025.

This year marks a very special milestone for Saint Catherine’s as the hospice is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

The charity and radio station will join forces to hold the event on Tuesday July 1, 2025, supported by Scarborough Business Ambassadors - a group comprising leading figures in business and local government and representatives across a variety of sectors.

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.

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

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."

This is the Coast Managing Director, Matthew Pells, says there will also be the opportunity for local firms to make donations online or via text message.

“There is a lot of love for Saint Catherine’s all along the Yorkshire Coast, the idea of Bring a Pound to Work Day is to make it simple for the local community to show that support by making it as easy as possible for people to make a contribution. 

Our Teams will be visiting hundreds of businesses along the coast on July 1st to collect those all important coins and help to celebrate the 40 years of hard work, care and compassion that have made Saint Catherine’s one of the Yorkshire Coast’s anchor organisations. 

You’ll also be able to donate online or via text and we hope you’ll tune in to follow the action on a fun day of fundraising.”

Details about Bring a Pound to Work Day 2025 and how you can sign up can be found at https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/poundtowork