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Future tense? hospices and fundraising. Forum of Chairmen of Independent Hospices Thursday September 23 rd 2004 Jonathan Farnhill Director of Funding, St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth, Stamford Road, Turnchapel, Plymouth, PL9 9XA. Tel: 01752 401172.
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Future tense?hospices and fundraising Forum of Chairmen of Independent Hospices Thursday September 23rd 2004 Jonathan Farnhill Director of Funding, St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth, Stamford Road, Turnchapel, Plymouth, PL9 9XA. Tel: 01752 401172. email: jonathan.farnhill@stlukes-hospice.org.uk
Just a phrase I’m going through “I always start off thinking I know what is important, and it’s never what’s important, it’s always something else… I think you get ambushed by the truth”
Just a phrase I’m going through “I’ve resigned myself. I’m functioning within the parameters of my mediocrity”
Just a phrase I’m going through “If you can’t comfort the afflicted, then afflict the comfortable”
Just a phrase I’m going through “Look how many things there are which I don’t want!”
Just a phrase I’m going through “Happiness is less a matter of getting what we want, than of wanting what we have”
Just a phrase I’m going through “Marketing is the professionalisation of insincerity”
Just a phrase I’m going through “When we spend our own money we feel we are investing part of ourselves in what we buy”
Just a phrase I’m going through “Selling the ‘halo effect’”
Just a phrase I’m going through “Hospices are dying organisations: a case of assisted suicide?”
Three Ancient Hospice Myths 1. Events lead to legacies 2. Giving donations corrupts patient/clinician relationship 3. Hospices are about living not dying
Just a phrase I’m going through “Growing older you never like, because it’s sadder, because you’re getting closer to dying, and who wants that?”
Just a phrase I’m going through “Imagination is the quality that facilitates compassion”
Just a phrase I’m going through “Sometimes even a blind chicken finds some grain”
Just a phrase I’m going through “Tomorrow is another country… … yesterday is another solar system”
Just a phrase I’m going through “Numbers ask questions, they don’t give answers”
Started so I’ll finish… • Identify what makes your hospice work, and cherish it • See the way the world is changing, and respond to it • Be pragmatically creative, and take measured risks