The local community came together to donate a wide range of gifts through a ‘Wish Tree’, organised by the team at Vertu Honda Truro, to children at Little Harbour Hospice in Cornwall.
Vertu Honda Truro joined forces with Children’s Hospice Southwest to collect gifts for Little Harbour, which has offered a home-from-home environment for young people dealing with life-limiting conditions, and their families, since opening its doors in 2011.
Andrew Niven, General Manager at Vertu Honda, said: “We have to say a huge thank you to everyone who took part in our Wish Tree in support of Little Harbour Hospice.
“To receive so many donations shows how important the hospice is to the local area, and how well it is regarded by the Cornish community.
“I’m proud that we have been able to help spread some cheer to the brave young people, and their families, who are benefitting from the amazing work that Little Harbour carries out on a daily basis.”
Vertu Honda Truro invited the local community to visit the dealership and collect a tag from the Wish Tree, each of which represented a gift wish from someone at the hospice.
Colleagues, customers and the wider community came together to not only grant wishes, but also to collect additional items to help both the children being cared for by the hospice as well as their families.
Amanda Masters, CHSW Area Fundraiser for Truro and West Cornwall, said: “We’re hugely grateful to the team at Vertu Honda Truro for their efforts in collecting gifts for Little Harbour Hospice.
“The generosity of the local community was amazing, and it has made a real difference to our children and their families.”
Gifts ranged from toys to toiletries and included some donated by visitors from nearby Sophie’s Den Childcare, who took a special bus trip to the dealership to collect their tags before returning to deliver they gifts they had purchased.
The gifts were then loaded into a new Honda ZR-V before being handed to Little Harbour.
