We spoke to Sue Kingman who is the Corporate Fundraising Manager at Weston Hospicecare, about the work that we do together and the impact that this has, not just for learners at Weston College, but also for the patients at Weston Hospicecare.

Weston Hospicecare cares for over 2,000 people a year in the local community with a life limiting illness and their families. We need to raise £4.5 million every year through fundraising to provide all our services and my role is to encourage business support towards this.

I started working with Weston College 2 years ago and our relationship is very important to the hospice.

We initially started working together on the Business Enterprise Project, which is a superb project that allows learners studying Business at Weston College, the opportunity to start and run a business, whilst raising money for Weston Hospicecare.

The learners are put into small teams, and given a business mentor, who supports them throughout the project, and helps them to develop valuable skills for their careers.

It was recently announced that this year the learners managed to raise £5,170 which is a superb effort, and one that we are all so grateful for.

We are now starting to work with the college on other exciting projects too, and we are really looking forward to expanding the relationship and playing an important role in the development of more learners across the college provision.

A big thank you to Sue, and the team at Weston Hospicecare.

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