ON behalf of everyone at Great Oaks, may I send our warmest wishes for the New Year to all your readers, their friends and relatives living within the Forest of Dean?

Our sincere thanks to you all for all your support, through generous donations, imaginative fund raising events and precious time from volunteers helping within the hospice and its shops and so much more.

You have enabled us to continue to grow and to develop so we can now offer a much broader service geared to the individual needs of those who benefit from hospice care.

It is the people of the Forest of Dean who have created, built, sustained and funded Great Oaks from its very small beginnings making it a community hospice in its truest sense.

We are fortunate indeed to live in such a caring and compassionate community.

– Jane Hamilton, Clinical Nurse Manager.