It’s important to try to overcome the stigma around discussing end-of-life care and to have a conversation about it with your loved ones, Toby Porter (NB on Blue Sky) from Hospice UK told BBC Breakfast

🎄 It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! 🎄 We’re excited to announce that all our Christmas cards, calendars, and diaries are now available in our shops and the reception here at the hospice on Durdar Road.

Setting up for Pride Eden Valley Hospice & Jigsaw Children's Hospice Come along and say hi.

Fun at Pride Eden Valley Hospice & Jigsaw Children's Hospice

A joy to represent Eden Valley Hospice & Jigsaw Children's Hospice today at Pride, lots of interest and the bead key ring and fingerprint cards were a real success. Let's continue to open our doors to everyone #inclusivehospicecare

We were absolutely delighted to be a stallholder at Cumbria Pride last weekend for the third year in a row! 🌈✨ It was an incredible day, celebrating 15 amazing years of Cumbria Pride. A huge thank you to everyone who stopped by our stall to chat and show support.

Excited to attend the APCSW conference in Birmingham on Friday. Great speakers, opportunity for peer support and stalls to visit.

Just one day till our annual conference! Excited to see all our lovely members and learn from brilliant speakers Liv Warnes, Dr Andrea Bruun The Victoria & Stuart Project and Professor Kish Bhatti-Sinclair. Birmingham here we come! ☺️

APCSW Liv Warnes The Victoria & Stuart Project So looking forward to the day!!

APCSW conference has begun Great to meet colleagues and network

Another brilliant and informative APCSW conference - on way home tired but so happy to have been there with excellent speakers and wonderful co-committee members who have put so much work into making this happen👏 Pam Hester Firth Wendy Ashton Liz Allam (she/her) Kimmy Liv Warnes

Thank you Andrea Bruun Liv Warnes Kish Bhatti-Sinclair PhD for your thought provoking presentations today at APCSW conference - I've taken learning from each of you today

Good luck to our incredible team of fundraisers who this weekend will be summiting Helvellyn as part of our Stars to Sunrise walk in conjunction with Lakeland Mountain Guides ⭐

I'm fundraising for St Gemma's Hospice as it's 6 years since my sis Sue died and she would have been 60 this year. Check out my JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving justgiving.com/page/wendy-ash…

At House of Lords for launch of important and timely book of essays on assisted dying (my chapter is on Dutch experience of euthanasia & lifelong disability) Baroness Hollins Ilora Finlay amazon.co.uk/Reality-Assist…

Huge thanks to the Eden Valley Hospice & Jigsaw Children's Hospice ambassador Val Armstrong for her warmth and wit at our Volunteer Thank You Afternoon Tea. Lots of love for Val and our great volunteers from all parts of hospice life who make a difference every day 💙🧡 #ThankYou 🙏

Ready for Jigsaw Family Support Day - halloween theme. Supporting parents/carers, children and siblings with fun activities, peer support and music and mini ponies for today! Eden Valley Hospice & Jigsaw Children's Hospice

Billy Monger 🙌 🎯 Aimed to finish the course in 17 hours 🌍 Finished the course in 14 hours, 23 minutes and 56 seconds and created a new world record

Walked up Catbells yesterday and raised an amazing £345 for St Gemma's Hospice. My sis would have been 60yrs this Dec and they looked after her 6years ago. I can't thank them enough for making her last couple of days peaceful and calm.

Really great to be able to cheer Paddy on as he passed our driveway yesterday. Thank you @PaddyMcGuiness for stopping to say hello to the kids and well done to the team for pulling together to give Paddy a much needed boost! #childreninneed2024 #PaddyUltra BBC Children in Need