ELLENOR FUNDRAISER ROS FILMED FOR SONGS OF PRAISE 

A few years ago, she set herself a target of raising £20,000 in her lifetime for ellenor, and despite raising that already from skydiving, Himalaya trekking, firewalking, abseiling and a zipwire only last year to name a few of her more extreme efforts, she’s going to keep going. When 75-year-old Ros isn’t throwing herself out of a plane, she’s selling lamps handmade from old gin bottles and shaking a bucket at various venues when she joins a musician friend at gigs. 
She also volunteers with ellenor, helping to marshal at our events. When her children were small, they sold their old toys to buy bricks to help build the hospice building – so is a part of our foundation. 
She herself, a retired funeral director, had been introduced to the hospice movement in her 30s when her mum took her to a WI talk – given by founder of the hospice movement Dame Cicely Saunders.  

Sunday’s show focused on ‘Spirituality in Later Life’ and shares Ros’s story – and her links with the Effective Life Church in Gravesend which she found eight years ago. 

Ros, who volunteers in our fundraising team and is also a welcome host at the hospice, was interviewed about her views on the fears people face as they get older including their inevitable demise – and with her previous experience as a bereavement counsellor, plus time spent working at ellenor, she said some interesting things. 

Read more about Ros’s fundraising, life and views on hospice care here: Fire walking pensioner makes £20,000 pledge