Published: 29/03/2022
Colchester Blanketeers
Colchester Blanketeers are volunteers who feel passionately about providing comfort during end of life care. The Blanketeers meet fortnightly at Colchester hospital and knit/crotchet big beautiful, colourful blankets which cover the patients bed, the staff spray the blankets with the patients perfume/aftershave which helps provide a familiar, comforting and less sterile environment for the patients and their family.
Blanketeers have also now started to provide the Hospital with Bereavement Bears to give to younger relatives and we are also supplying the Hospital and other organisations with Twiddle lap blankets and twiddle muffs for Dementia Patients.
having spoken to Susi Long who founded the group when she lost her mother, I know the group are overwhelmed by our donation and will soon be purchasing £500 worth of wool with the vouchers we have purchased for them.
