Pictured with the new wishing well are shopper Dee Bramly, Rose Turk from the Wellington shopping centre management team and Andrew Cox from Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice
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Make a wish for Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice
By Laura NightingaleJune 08, 2010
A WISHING well has been put in place at a shopping centre to encourage customers to donate their loose change to charity.
Gary Little, manager of the Wellington shopping centre in Aldershot, decided to install the well to support the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice due to the huge help it provides for the local community.
Mr Little said: “We are delighted to do whatever we can to support this wonderful cause.
“So many of our visitors here are aware of Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice and the great work that it does in support of local people who are dealing with terminal illnesses like cancer and motor neurone disease.
"Hopefully this addition will raise more much needed funds.
“Last year our shoppers also raised more than £1,700 for the hospice.”
The mobile wishing well is currently located on the lower floor, near to the site where Lidl is due to open shortly.
The wooden frame is in the shape of a dovecote in tribute to the hospice’s logo.
Andrew Cox, corporate partnerships manager at the hospice, was equally delighted by the shopping centre’s initiative.
He said: “Every penny that visitors can spare us by dropping it into the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice wishing well will be used to provide much-needed care and support to our patients and their families.
“It is only through this wonderful community support that we are able to raise the £10,000 a day needed to keep our doors open.
“By contributing in this way, shoppers can be sure they are helping us to add life to days where we cannot add days to life.”
Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice provides specialist palliative care to adult patients and their families living with terminal illnesses in west Surrey and north-east Hampshire.
The hospice is based in Farnham and serves a population of 600,000 people.
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