Lewis-Manning Hospice Care has appointed a new Trustee with significant experience in retail and online sales to its Board.
CEO Clare Gallie said, “As a charity we regularly go through the process of evaluating business needs and identifying potential gaps in our Board structure. This led to us advertise for a Trustee with online and high street retail expertise. As a result, we are delighted to welcome on board Jeremy Lune who brings some brilliant new skills to our organisation.
“Jeremy Lune is the well-respected CEO for ‘Cards For Good Causes’, a business that sells Christmas cards on behalf of over 200 local and national charities, generating over £5million worth of sales annually. Jeremy brings with him 35 years of commercial and charitable retail experience.”
Jeremy advised, “Following a cancer diagnosis last year, it has made me think a lot more about what is and what isn’t important in life. Getting involved in Lewis-Manning Hospice Care is an opportunity to act on that. I think that the work the hospice does is fantastic and very unique. I’m very determined to use my time, skills, energy and passion to make a real positive difference to peoples’ lives.
“I know the retail environment really well, the nature of which has changed dramatically over the last 10 years – people are shopping differently, using different ways to pay and I think these changes have been a challenge for many. Lewis-Manning has huge local engagement and I am looking forward to helping the hospice maximise the potential and opportunities open to them, building on the local engagement, advising and helping the hospice to use the shops literally as a shop window to their organisation.”
About Lewis-Manning Hospice Care
Lewis-Manning Hospice Care is a charity established 28 years ago, providing extraordinary care to patients and their families facing a life-limiting illness across Poole, Purbeck and East Dorset. We offer a range of free hospice care services aimed at helping people to live well through their illness, closer to home.
These include:
– Day hospices, virtual and in person
– Creative arts & wellbeing support
– Lymphoedema clinic for cancer patients
– Better breathing clinic
– Family bereavement & support
Every year we support nearly 500 local people and we develop new services, based on patient need and identified gaps in the area.
To do this we need to raise over £1.6m every year. Without these funds we could not exist.
Our important work increases people’s physical and social well-being, reduces isolation and loneliness, supports people to stay in their homes longer, and alleviates the huge pressures on family and carers.