00:00Every year, Marie Curie cares for thousands of people at the end of their lives all across
00:06the country.
00:07The charity provides general support, and their nurses are there for patients and their
00:10families and give people a vital lifeline where end-of-life care is needed.
00:15Lowri and Tori, both Marie Curie fundraisers from South Wales, and they say that this time
00:20of the year is huge for the charity as they embark on their Great Daffodil Appeal, where
00:24the charity will hope to raise money to provide for their service.
00:28Last year, just in Wales, we raised £100,000 from our collections, that was just our volunteers
00:35getting out in supermarkets and city centres, making our daffodils available and taking
00:39donations from the public.
00:41That was also match-funded, so that was £200,000 when you consider, you know, it's like around
00:49£200 for a night's worth of nursing care.
00:53Obviously, our Daffodil Appeal would have funded, I can't even do that maths, but a
00:58lot of nights, so it's, yeah, it's absolutely vital for us, and that's why we've done it
01:02for so long and continue to do it.
01:03I mean, St David's Day is a huge day for us, and we were quite lucky this year that it
01:07fell on the first, it fell on a Saturday, the 1st of March, so that was even better.
01:13There was the school holidays, so so many people were out, and the weather was definitely
01:17on our side, so I think we made a lot of money just on St David's Day alone this year in
01:22Wales.
01:23It's not just about the care they provide though, as Tory says there are people working
01:28behind the scenes lobbying governments like at the Senate, fighting for improvements to
01:32end-of-life care, something they say has been massively left to the wayside over the last
01:36few years.
01:37So, something that goes on in the background is that we have a policy and research team,
01:43so they're kind of the people in the background who are, you know, fighting for better end-of-life
01:47care.
01:48We've got the providers and then the people fighting for it, so just last week, before
01:54St David's Day, we actually had a Senedd reception for the launch of our Great Daffodil
01:59Appeal, and our policy team worked quite closely with a lot of the members of Senedd to kind
02:05of get them on board for putting in, you know, what Marie Curie would like to see in the
02:10Welsh Government manifesto, and that's all part of what we do as well, which a lot of
02:15people don't know about.
02:16Glowery thinks that it's not been a top priority for governments, so want to see end-of-care
02:21given the time it deserves by lawmakers.
02:23It's about sort of closing that gap. We're actually sort of, well, as a society, we're
02:29moving in the wrong direction of people are living longer, they're having more sort of
02:33complex health needs, so that need for end-of-life care is just increasing. By 2048, we think
02:40that's going to increase by up to 25%, so we're just looking for it to be made a priority
02:46really. Unfortunately, it's not made a priority, but it's one thing we know we're all going
02:50to face is an end-of-life, so it needs to be made a priority in local government and
02:56UK-wide.
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