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John Taylor Hospice celebrates 110 years of care

January 02, 2020

Birmingham’s John Taylor Hospice this year celebrates an incredible 110th anniversary – marking more than a century of caring for local people. One of the oldest hospices in the country, John Taylor was founded in 1910 by the people of Birmingham who fundraised to provide a ‘home of r

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John Taylor Hospice is a finalist in this year’s Social Enterprise Awards from SEUK

September 23, 2019

Finalists for the UK Social Enterprise Awards 2019 have just been announced, and Birmingham’s own John Taylor Hospice has been nominated in the ’employee engagement’ category. The awards, hosted by national membership body SEUK recognise businesses that give back, en

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John Taylor Hospice is holding an open evening for people interested in becoming volunteers

August 23, 2019

Volunteers are an essential part of the team at John Taylor Hospice (JTH), helping in the hospice itself, in its shops, in fundraising and with services like driving and wellbeing. JTH is looking to boost its current numbers of volunteers and is hosting a Volunteers Open Evening so th

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John Taylor Hospice launches ‘special moments’ art competition for children

February 19, 2019

Children aged 11 and under across Birmingham and the West Midlands are being offered the chance to win art materials in a competition to picture their ‘special moments’. The art produced by winners and runners-up will be featured in a special month-long exhibition at

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JTH announces Christmas tree recycling scheme

December 19, 2018

John Taylor Hospice has a brilliant plan that will take the hassle out of your new year Christmas tree disposal – it has just announced a Christmas tree collection and recycling scheme which will be good for the environment and good for its fundraising. For a suggested donation of £8,

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John Taylor Hospice — ‘third shop will be our largest so far’

November 19, 2018

We recently covered the opening of John Taylor Hospice’s second retail outlet. JTH has now announced that its third shop to open this year will be in Castle Bromwich and will open in December. The organisation is is looking for people willing to give a few hours each week to hel

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John Taylor Hospice opens second shop

November 13, 2018

Back in May of this year we covered the opening of the first John Taylor Hospice shop, located at 121 High Street, Erdington B23 6SA. This first experiment with retailing has proven so successful for the organisation that it has already opened its second shop at 370 Birmingham Road, W

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John Taylor Hospice — great turn-out for opening of first shop

May 14, 2018

Back in January we wrote that John Taylor Hospice, the UK’s only social enterprise hospice, had unveiled its latest three-year strategic plan and that this included a commitment to open its first shop. Now that shop — the first in the hospice’s 100-year history – has

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Share your memories of John Taylor Hospice

April 04, 2018

John Taylor Hospice, the UK’s only social enterprise hospice, has just launched an appeal for stories, reminiscences and memories from people who have some prior connection with the hospice. For more than 100 years JTH has helped and supported thousands of families and employed

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John Taylor Hospice unveils plan to extend services, increase volunteering and launch JTH shops

January 02, 2018

John Taylor Hospice, the UK’s only social enterprise hospice, has just unveiled its latest three-year strategic plan. This sees the organisation planning to increase and widen its community engagement and volunteering programmes; maximise income from commercial services, donatio

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Read what John Taylor Hospice’s ‘Gift a Christmas’ campaign means to one grateful family

December 18, 2017

John Taylor Hospice’s ‘Gift a Christmas’ appeal is running again this year and over on the JTH website you can read what this means to one grateful family — the Bloxhams — and why they consider it important to support the hospice in its fundraising effort

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John Taylor Hospice says please ‘gift a Christmas’

November 13, 2017

John Taylor Hospice, the UK’s first social enterprise hospice, is asking local communities to get behind its festive appeal to raise £15,000 – enough to fund running costs at the hospice on Christmas Day. The hospice in Birmingham provides specialist end of life care for people

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Patients and families supported by John Taylor Hospice tell their stories in film

April 18, 2017

As part of a major University of Birmingham project called Life: Moving, patients and their families receiving care from the John Taylor Hospice have been trained in film-making and have created a series of short films exploring their personal experiences. The project aims to challeng

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JTH celebrates Charles Blackburn, awarded France’s highest military honour

November 11, 2016

Great-grandfather Charles Blackburn — born in Small Heath in 1918 — had an extraordinary surprise when he was staying recently at the John Taylor Hospice for a short respite break. He was awarded France’s highest military honour, the Légion d’Honneur, for his service

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Raising awareness of hospice care

October 11, 2016

One in three people will be touched by hospice care at some point in their lives and the John Taylor Hospice (JTH) alone provides care of some description for at least 600 people every single day. And yet most of us prefer not to think about what hospices do, or the circumstances in w

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Local businesses help John Taylor Hospice become more dementia-friendly

May 31, 2016

John Taylor Hospice, the UK’s only social enterprise hospice, has joined forces with local businesses (including volunteers from Jaguar Land Rover — pictured) to raise funds which will help the hospice become more dementia-friendly. The hospice’s campaign coincided with a

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Patients are the stars

March 09, 2016

John Taylor Hospice, the first social enterprise hospice in the UK, is launching a promotional campaign in which patients, carers and staff are the stars. Under the slogan, “We believe end of life isn’t the end of living,” the hospice is using advertising on buses, b

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John Taylor Hospice says goodbye to CEO Kate Phipps

February 03, 2016

Founded in 1910, John Taylor Hospice is one of the oldest non-denominational hospices in the UK. It was also the first ‘new mutual’ — or social enterprise — hospice, leaving the NHS in in 2011 under the Department of Health’s Right to Request process. Pperating

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John Taylor Hospice chief exec — the sky’s the limit for fundraising

January 11, 2016

JustGiving, the online funding platform, has just confirmed that John Taylor Hospice chief exec Kate Phipps was one of its top fundraisers in 2015. Of over 532,000 fundraisers active on JustGiving in 2015, Kate’s page raised £14,000, placing her in the top 1%. But this didn̵

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John Taylor Hospice shortlisted for HSJ award

September 17, 2015

Birmingham’s John Taylor Hospice, the only UK hospice operating as a social enterprise, has been shortlisted for a Health Service Journal (HSJ) Award in the Compassionate Patient Care category. The HSJ Awards, which have been highlighting successful initiatives in UK healthcare

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