Risley News
17/03/2023: A local musician and music teacher has completed a feat of endurance and raised much needed funds for worthy causes.
15/02/2023: A Derby-based organisation has donated £10,000 to local charity Treetops Hospice in memory on one of the organisation founders. Interact made the donation to remember Patrick (Paddy) Harkins who was instrumental in establishing the Derby branch - the largest of 24 in the UK.
01/02/2023: Over seventy volunteers and staff have received long service awards from local charity end-of-life charity Treetops Hospice – totalling an incredible 415 years of service.
30/01/2023: When Dorothy Johnson was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, she knew she wanted to be at home for her final days.
08/12/2022: Patients and their family members are benefitting from more open and honest conversations around end of life care, thanks to a range of enhanced communication resources and training available to health and social care practitioners.
01/12/2022: Local patients who chose to die at home have benefitted from an end-of-life nursing service, thanks to a grant jointly given by Derby and Burton Hospitals Charity and NHS Charities Together.
22/11/2022: East Midlands Airport is once again lighting up its air traffic control tower in support of the Treetops Hospice Light Up A Life appeal.
15/11/2022: A grant of £20,000 from East Midlands Airport has helped Treetops Hospice install solar panels at its site in Risley, Derbyshire.
09/11/2022: Erewash MP Maggie Throup has used Prime Minister’s Questions in the Commons to ask Rishi Sunak to set a timetable to close asylum accommodation at two hotels in the constituency which are currently housing around 400 asylum seekers.
01/11/2022: The grounds of a Derbyshire end-of-life charity have been spruced up, thanks to employees from a banking company.