This year the all the money raised from the festival will go towards building the new hospice in Broomfield. We currently operate from a Victorian Building in New London Road, Chelmsford and two outreach day care centres in Maldon and Braintree. The two day care centres will remain open but the Victorian building in Chelmsford no longer meets care standard regulations and will have to close. Also the demand on our services has doubled over the last five years and we are in desperate need of expansion. Without a new hospice we would be forced to close and there would be no hospice care for Mid Essex.

Therefore it was decided to try to raise the extra £6 million that it would cost to build a new hospice. The good news is that we have already raised £4.2 million towards that total and the building work is really coming on, with the roof now on the new hospice.