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The focus of this year’s Dying Matters Week (10 – 16 May) is the importance of ‘a good place to die’. Local projects and events offering support and advice are happening across the city, most of them online via video conferencing.

Intensive Care nurse Imogen Stringer is fundraising in memory of her dad Ian, who died of terminal cancer last year.

We rely on the generosity of local people to fund our services and 1 in 3 of our patients is cared for thanks to gifts in wills. Gus Ferguson explains why he’s chosen to remember Martlets in his will

Members of Martlets’ Good Vibrations choir are making a colourful patchwork quilt to reflect life in lockdown over the past year

Childhood friends Anna and Alex are running the Brighton Marathon in September to raise money for Martlets

Monika Lind is walking 41 km for 41 years of marriage in memory of her husband Paul, as part of our March for Martlets event

Since the COVID pandemic began, we’ve seen a 25% rise in calls to our phone hub, which offers expert advice and support to patients, families and carers, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Patrick McHugh has been learning a mandolin tune by ear every day since March 2020 to raise money for Martlets.

It’s time once again for our annual Long Service Awards, when we celebrate our volunteers and staff who’ve reached milestones in working for Martlets