Housebuilder Bellway has donated £1,000 to a Bedfordshire-based hospice to provide music and art therapy sessions for the children who use its facilities.
Keech Hospice Care, which is based in Luton, provides free, specialist care for adults in Luton and south Bedfordshire, and for children from Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Milton Keynes, who have life-limiting and terminal illnesses, as well as providing help and support to the families who look after them.
Bellway Northern Home Counties is building new homes at developments across Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes.
Kate Gooden, fundraiser at Keech Hospice Care, said: “We are very grateful to Bellway for this donation and are really excited to be working together.
“£1,000 is an amazing donation and will allow us to fund eight sessions of both music and art therapy for those children, which is just fantastic.
“We offer music and art therapy to adults and children and it is a really powerful way of exploring and expressing emotions in a safe way.”
Keech Hospice Care celebrated its 30th anniversary last year and during the year supported more than 2,500 adults, children and relatives.
Sales Manager at Bellway Northern Home Counties, Aly Morehen, said: “I’ve had the pleasure of meeting some of the team at Keech Hospice Care and the work they do for the people who need it in the local community is amazing.
“We are more than happy to help support the hospice with this £1,000 donation and hope it makes a positive difference to children who will benefit from music and art therapy.
“We hope this is just the start of a lasting relationship between Bellway and Keech Hospice Care.”
For more information about the hospice and the work it does, visit Keech’s website.
Bellway Northern Home Counties is building new homes at Houghton Regis, Leighton Buzzard, Wixams and Shortstown in Bedfordshire and at Tattenhoe and Wavendon in Milton Keynes.
