Overgate Hospice is a

hospice Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life. Hospice care prioritizes comfort and quality of life b ...

and

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Elland Elland is a market town in Calderdale, in the county of West Yorkshire, England. It is situated south of Halifax, by the River Calder and the Calder and Hebble Navigation. Elland was recorded as ''Elant'' in the Domesday Book of 1086. It ha ...

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, England. It provides

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for the people of

Calderdale Calderdale () is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England, which had a population of 211,439. It takes its name from the River Calder, and dale, a word for valley. The name Calderdale usually refers to the borough through which the ...

History

In the 1970s two

doctors, Drs Brian Quinn and Geoffrey Hyman created a charitable trust called the Calderdale Society for Continuing Care to establish a

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for

. Initially they planned to convert and old

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Boothtown Boothtown is a suburb of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, which falls within Town Ward, one of the 17 wards of Calderdale. Its history was dominated by the mills of the textile industry. Rawson's Mill on Old Lane is now disused and designat ...

; however this and other sites failed to materialised. Slyvia Graucob — the wife of Find Graucob, a

-based

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manufacturer — had purchase their old Elland home, Overgate and the adjoining property Hazeldene after her husband's death and donated the property to the charitable trust as a location for the hospice. Funds required to convert the property and for running costs for the first year was then raised by public donations, the local health authority, and a loan from Halifax League of Friends. The hospice was opened in September 1981 with facility for eight beds. In 1994, a new purpose-built in-patient unit was added to the hospice, increasing the number of beds to 12. The hospice opened a day hospice for 5 days a week in 1995, which was initially in the original Overgate building. The day hospice was moved to a purpose-built space in 2005, which was extended in 2011. In April 2024, the hospice launched its Big Build Appeal to raise fundings for a new hospice facility, extending its current capabilities. The hospice has generated of the required total, including funding from the

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and is hoping to raise a total of with the appeal.

Fund raising

Fund raising to maintain the hospice is provided by public donations, fund-raising events, through the hospice's own choir,

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grants, a weekly lottery and 16

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throughout Calderdale. Overgate Hospice - Bethel Street - geograph

Overgate Hospice Choir

The Overgate Hospice Choir was formed in 1991 initially to perform

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's choral work, The Creation as part of a National Voices for Hospices event. The choir continues today, with 65 voices performing four concerts a year.

Charity shops

The hospice maintains a network of 16 charity shops and a distribution centre throughout Calderdale to support its fund-raising efforts. The hospice's first charity shop was opened in

Hebden Bridge Hebden Bridge is a market town in the Calderdale district of West Yorkshire, England. It is in the Upper Calder Valley, west of Halifax and 14 miles (21 km) north-east of Rochdale, at the confluence of the River Calder and the Hebden W ...

in 1994. The shops are located in

Brighouse Brighouse (, locally also ) is a town within the metropolitan borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. Historic counties of England, Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated on the River Calder, West Y ...

(four shops including a designer boutique, children's shop and furniture shop), Elland (two shops including a children's shop), Halifax, Hebden Bridge (furniture shop),

Hipperholme Hipperholme is a village in West Yorkshire, England, located between the towns of Halifax, West Yorkshire, Halifax and Brighouse in the Hipperholme and Lightcliffe ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale. The population of this ward at ...

, Illingworth, King Cross,

Ovenden Ovenden is a village in West Yorkshire, England, next to Boothtown and Illingworth about a mile from Halifax town centre. It is also a Calderdale Ward whose population at the 2011 Census was 12,351. The area was scattered with pockets of Vic ...

Sowerby Bridge Sowerby Bridge ( ) is a market town in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. The Calderdale Council ward population at the 2011 census was 11,703. History The town was originally a fording point over the once mu ...

(two shops including a children's shop),

Todmorden Todmorden ( ; ) is a market town and civil parish in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It is north-east of Manchester, south-east of Burnley and west of Halifax, West Yorkshire, Halifax. In 2011, it had a popul ...

and

West Vale West Vale is a village in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. The village falls within the Greetland and Stainland parish of the Calderdale Council. It is south of Halifax, west of Elland and north-west of Huddersfield. Location West Va ...

Administration

In 1994 the hospice trustees appointed its first full-time administrator, Norman Witter. The hospice is governed by a

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, as of 2024 it is maintained by 12 trustees. In 1994 the hospice cost to run. In 2019, total expenditure was , with total income of . In 2023 the income of the hospice was with an expenditure of .

References

External links

www.overgatehospice.org.uk
* {{EW charity , num=511619 , name=Overgate Hospice Hospices in England Charities based in West Yorkshire Health in Yorkshire 1981 establishments in England