Pure Leisure has generously donated £100,000 to two commendable charities, namely St John's Hospice and Beechwood Cancer Care, demonstrating their commitment to making a positive impact on the lives of those in need.
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00:00 What's happened today is we've, over the course of the last 12 months, we've raised £100,000 for two charities.
00:08 We decided that some time ago we would donate money off every touring caravan, every tent, every holiday that we book,
00:22 both in the UK and Barbados. And we gather the money together each year now to donate to charity.
00:29 We didn't raise £100,000 but I donated the remainder of it to make up to £100,000.
00:37 The amazing gift today of £50,000 means so much to St John's Hospice because the vast majority of the money that we need to run the hospice services each year
00:47 is funded by amazing local people and organisations like the Pure Leisure Group.
00:52 We get about less than 30% from the NHS now towards our running parks and so the rest we rely on from wonderful donations like this.
01:01 Extraordinarily grateful. It makes us quite emotional and we're always very humbled by donations because without donations we wouldn't be able to run the hospice
01:12 and we wouldn't be able to do what we do. So we're incredibly generous on donation. Very, very grateful. Thank you.
01:19 We are hugely grateful. John and Pure Leisure Group have made such a difference and with the money we will be able to give some specific targeted support
01:29 to specific service users affected by cancer. For example, men affected by prostate cancer, women affected by breast cancer
01:39 and to enable staff to be trained to give some focused support in specific therapeutic techniques.
01:47 For example, women who are recovering from breast cancer but are unable to take HRT for the menopause but are thrust into an early menopause
01:56 with excessive menopausal symptoms and we will train staff up to help them through that with psychological techniques and therapy.
02:05 Over the last 20-25 years we've raised nearly £2 million through various events that we've run both on parks or through our charity balls that we've done
02:19 but it's all been donated to good causes throughout Lancashire and South Cumbria.