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Sandy Inwood has been the brains behind many fundraisers for the important work of Hospice Marlborough.
Between organising events and working with great people, Sandy Inwood says promoting the work of Hospice Marlborough has been the best job she ever had.
She has finished up as promotions manager after a decade in the role, as her husband reached retirement age and herself being not far behind, and it became time to move closer to her family and parents in Rangiora.
Her work for the charitable trust involved managing fundraising events and promotions, and getting out and about in the community, letting people know about the work the hospice did.
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Sandy Inwood, centre left, with her Hospice team at Fabric-A Brac last year.
Inwood joked that she quite liked talking, but promoting such an important cause was one of the best parts of the job.
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Hospice Marlborough provided end-of-life palliative care services for people, and supported their whānau.
Inwood said the staff and volunteers were “so patient and so good” at their work.
“It was really easy to go out and speak positively about Hospice in the community, because the team themselves are passionate about what they do.”
One of the many events Inwood oversaw was the Fabric-A-Brac in September 2022, where the community showed their support by selling fabric and sewing supplies.
Inwood said during her time in the role, Hospice had three or four regular events each year, not including ad hoc events.
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Twenty-thousand patients were cared for last year in hospices across the country.
In her experience, people were generally very generous. But the people of Marlborough were “particularly generous and supportive”, Inwood said.
Inwood said she was sad to leave the role, but had no doubt the next person to fill her shoes would be able to take her work to the next level.
She said she expected she would seek out some part-time work in Rangiora to keep herself busy.
While she had settled into her new hometown well, she was already missing the “amazing” environment of the Hospice Marlborough team, she said.
“I think what I’m proudest of, and it’s not something that I worked on, but the team we have at Hospice.”
