# Leicester manager makes emergency appeal

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/03/01/leicester-manager-makes-emergency-appeal/
- Published: 2020-03-01T17:37:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers is spearheading an emergency appeal on 
behalf of the Northern Ireland Hospice.**

In a video message the Leicester manager says ‘vital income Hospice needs has stopped’
because of the COVID-19 crisis. Mr Rodgers has been an ambassador for the Hospice
for a number of years.

[Northern Ireland Hospice](http://www.nihospice.org) chief executive Heather Weir
said the inability to carry out fundraising events due to coronavirus meant the 
charity is facing a shortfall of up to £10 million by the end of the year. She described
the emergency appeal as the “the most important appeal for the Hospice since our
formation”.

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The Hospice message accompanying the fundraising video for the ‘Now, More Than Ever’
emergency appeal says: ‘The impact of COVID-19 on Northern Ireland Hospice is also
very serious. Our community income has reduced to seriously low levels and if this
continues we would not be able to survive as an organisation.’

The Hospice added that their closure would be devastating for thousands of people
all across Northern Ireland.

‘We need to be here and within our community to care for the babies, children and
adults that depend on us at their time of greatest need,’ the Hospice says.

The online ask is for **£50, £100 and £250**. The suggested £100 donation is for‘
life saving equipment such as PPE for staff, patients and their families.’

In 2019 the Hospice had an income of £13.6 million, of which £9.3 million came from
fundraising and the charity’s retail operations. Community fundraising and events
play an important part in the income generation strategy of the Hospice with a number
of events such as the Belfast marathon and sponsored walks throughout N Ireland 
in May now in question.