ellenor hospice wellbeing lead Andrew Lowden talks about the new wing

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00:00I'm really excited, it's been a long time coming.

00:10We've been working for two years off-site at the Manor Hotel and it's so great for us

00:14to be able to move our teams back here and prepare for the new groups that we're about

00:19to deliver.

00:20One of the things we found in the past was we didn't have the space to be able to deliver

00:24the groups that we wanted to.

00:25That's exactly what the new build allows us to do.

00:29Increase the variety, increase the size of the groups that we're doing.

00:33The wellbeing services really are what I would informally call the living end of hospice

00:36care.

00:37People understand that hospices will do the end of life care, the dying side of hospice

00:43care.

00:44I'm very much working at earlier in the process, working on helping people to live their lives

00:49to the fullest.

00:50If you're told that you've got a certain amount of life left on this planet, you want to make

00:53the most of it and Eleanor wants to help you do that.

00:57The wellbeing centre allows us to deliver different groups in different ways, whether

01:01it be a bigger exercise group, whether it be a creative art session, whether it be a

01:06music for wellbeing session.

01:09There's some really special places here in this new building.

01:12Space is a premium and I think when you start to become popular in your services, you realise

01:19we need to expand, otherwise it's very hard to do an exercise group when you can't lift

01:23your arms up because there's so many people squished into a room.

01:26That was the point we were getting to.

01:28We realised we needed to expand, it's taken investment from Eleanor to be able to do that,

01:31but that's important for us and our community to grow.