Marie Curie and EDF Energy announce three-year charity partnership
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Marie Curie is delighted to announce a three-year charity partnership with EDF Energy, the UK’s largest producer of low-carbon energy. The company aims to raise £600,000 for Marie Curie during the partnership, with EDF Energy match-funding its employees’ fundraising by up to £100,000 each year. As well as raising funds for the charity, EDF Energy will be working with Marie Curie to provide energy advice for the charity’s hospices as well as the homes of patients. Marie Curie was chosen as EDF Energy’s charity partner in an internal employee vote, with more than 7,000 members of staff across EDF Energy taking part. All the funds raised from the partnership will help Marie Curie Nurses provide more free care to people with terminal illnesses in their own homes and in the charity’s nine hospices. Last year alone, Marie Curie Nurses provided care for more than 35,000 terminally ill patients across the UK and emotional support to their families. Dr Jane Collins, Chief Executive of Marie Curie, said: “We are thrilled to be selected as EDF Energy’s new charity partner. The crucial funds raised from the partnership will ensure that Marie Curie Nurses are able to provide significantly more care to terminally ill people throughout the country. Everyone at Marie Curie is excited about working together with EDF Energy staff to make a valuable difference to patients and their families at the time when they most need support.” Chief Executive of EDF Energy, Vincent de Rivaz, said: "I’m delighted to welcome Marie Curie Cancer Care as EDF Energy’s new charity partner. The charity carries out vital work providing end of life care to patients and we look forward to supporting their activities through fundraising and volunteering. Over the next few months we will explore ways to help the work of Marie Curie further, providing energy advice and insulating and improving the energy efficiency of the homes of those they support.” Marie Curie’s regional fundraisers will be visiting EDF Energy’s sites across England and Scotland this month to introduce employees to the charity’s work, as well as informing them of the many volunteering and fundraising opportunities available for them get involved in, such as the charity’s forthcoming annual summer ‘Blooming Great Tea Party’. -ENDS- |
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Marie Curie Cancer Care is one of the UK’s largest charities. Employing more than 2,700 nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals, it provided care to more than 35,000 terminally ill patients in the community and in its nine hospices last year and is the largest provider of hospice beds outside the NHS.
Funding
Around 70 per cent of the charity’s income comes from the generous support of thousands of individuals, membership organisations and businesses, with the balance of our funds coming from the NHS.
Marie Curie Nurses
The charity is best known for its network of Marie Curie Nurses working in the community to provide end of life care, totally free for patients in their own homes.
Research
The charity provides core funding for three palliative care research facilities; the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Unit at University College London, the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute Liverpool and the Marie Curie Palliative Care Centre at the Wales Cancer Trials Unit (Cardiff University). The charity also supports palliative and end of life care research through its project grant funding streams, the Marie Curie Cancer Care Research Programme (administered by Cancer Research UK) and the Dimbleby Marie Curie Cancer Care Research Fund. Both research programmes aims to tackle the funding and knowledge gap in palliative and end of life care research, which in turn will benefit patients, families and carers.
The right to die in place of choice
Research shows around 63 per cent of people would like to die at home if they had a terminal illness, with a sizeable minority opting for hospice care. However, more than 50 per cent of cancer deaths still occur in hospital, the place people say they would least like to be. Since 2004 Marie Curie Cancer Care has been campaigning for more patients to be able to make the choice to be cared for and die in their place of choice.
EDF Energy
EDF Energy is one of the UK’s largest energy companies and the largest producer of low-carbon electricity, producing around one-sixth of the nation's electricity from its nuclear power stations, wind farms, coal and gas power stations and combined heat and power plants. The company supplies gas and electricity to more than 5.5 million business and residential customer accounts and is the biggest supplier of electricity by volume in Great Britain.
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