Volunteering is so rewarding, says Susan

SUSAN CONLON has been volunteering at St Ann’s Hospice’s Edgeley shop for the past three years, bringing warmth, dedication, and plenty of colour coordination to the shop every Wednesday.

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Before joining the shop team, Susan first volunteered at the hospice itself, fitting in shifts on the drinks trolley for inpatients every other Saturday morning around her job as a receptionist.

She said: “I loved it at the hospice, it was really nice. I didn’t have a personal connection to the hospice, but it was near where I worked and something I'd always wanted to do after looking after my parents - I started after Mum died.”

After the pandemic paused volunteering on the hospice wards, she was eager to return and found her new place at the Edgeley shop.