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Naomi House Hospice
By nealejames | May 22, 2007
In the course of a week, I have the pleasure to meet and work with a diverse set of people, commercially and privately. Today we photographically supported an event in our hometown for the Naomi House Children’s Hospice. Set up in ‘92, NHCH opened to provide respite, terminally ill care and bereavement support for children and families across the south of England. But don’t be confused about the NH abbreviation. This is not a government financed initiative, there is no statutory funding available. And don’t get me started on the politics of where we do manage to channel the finances of laziness and ill gotten deserved gains from our taxes. It costs two million pounds per year to keep the hospice doing what it does so well. The lottery provided 1/8 of this in the last set of accounts, the rest coming from a host of fundraiding events and voluntary income. Fortunately, charity exists and there are people who work hard in their own time to see that establishments like Naomi House can see children and families through the good, difficult and sadly - the last days of their lives. In this case, a huge amount of praise should be heaped upon Sarah Arrowsmith, one half of the husband and wife partnership that deal with us on a day to day basis with our photographic printing, for organising a fundraising fashion show in their own backgarden! I know Sarah, you certainly didn’t organise this event to receive personal praise and recognition, but the job you did today was nothing short of superb. Thanks too should go to Liz McCann of the Naseby Collection for supplying the fashion and of course the models. Around one hundred guests this afternoon managed to raise a combined total of £10,000. The phrase ‘charity starts at home’ was certainly applicable and in evidence today.
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