Ease hospice cash crisis with ‘foreign aid’ – Yorkshire Post Letters
IT is reliably reported that hospices in the UK are in financial crisis and 80 per cent of them will need to make staff redundant very soon.
When demand for their services is not declining and their abilities to raise money have been wiped out surely, in a caring society, this cannot continue?
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Hide AdWe spend £13.4bn on international aid per year; much of it on spurious vanity projects.
Surely it is time for aid (charity) to be spent at home in this current health crisis?
If we gave from this fund £5m to each of the 200 approximately hospices that would be £1bn – just under seven per cent of the total allocated to overseas development.
Is this not a reasonable solution to a funding crisis for an important sector in our own caring society?
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Hide AdPerhaps The Yorkshire Post – or other organisations – might like to get behind a campaign to put our country first and show that we do care for our own communities and that charity begins at home?
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