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Family-run firm A.W. Lymn has facilitated £782,000 for enhanced care across Nottingham’s NHS hospitals over the last 20 years.
The donations, of which were acquired through funeral donations, have contributed to improvements in more than 90 areas across Nottingham’s NHS hospitals. A significant amount of funding has been directed towards Hayward House, the specialist palliative care unit at Nottingham City Hospital.
The firm operates a scheme allowing families to request charitable donations in lieu of floral tributes. Over 8,400 people have made donations in this way.
Funding has supported complementary therapy services such as bereavement support, counselling, and art therapy. It has also enabled enhancements to the patient environment including an accessible garden area, family room, quiet room and counselling rooms, for more than 1,000 patients it serves a year with life-limiting illnesses.
Nigel Gregory, chief executive of Nottingham Hospitals Charity, said: “As we celebrate our 20th year of being at the heart of care across Nottingham’s NHS hospitals, we are grateful to A.W. Lymn who really have been at the heart of what we do.
“They have supported us since the beginning, not only through facilitating donations made at funerals, but by staff getting actively involved in fundraising for our charity as well. We are incredibly appreciative of their ongoing support, and the difference they have enabled us to make for patients, families, and staff here at Nottingham’s NHS hospitals.”
Nigel Lymn Rose, fourth generation and d of the business, said: “We are truly humbled by the number of donations we have been able to facilitate over the last 20 years. It has been a key part of our service at A.W. Lymn for many years and reflects the very ethos of why we do what we do.
“The fact that we can see the tangible difference it has made across Nottingham is testament not only to the charity’s work, but to those families organising a funeral through us who have chosen to remember their loved ones in such a thoughtful and special way.”
