A kind-hearted girl has been getting crafty by sewing syringe driver bags to help patients at East Lancashire Hospice.

Charlotte Cameron, 10, has been helping patients from the Inpatient Unit gain more independence and seize the opportunity to go out into society by donating bags to the unit.

There has been a shortage of bags in the unit so Mary, one of the Creative and Support Therapy (CaST) volunteers at the hospice, set her granddaughter Charlotte to work on the sewing machine and create six of them.

Liz Hollis, team leader of CaST, dropped the bags off in the IPU where Dr Awan accepted them on behalf of the patients.

Lancashire Telegraph: Liz Hollis, team leader of CaST with syringe driver bag sewn by CharlotteLiz Hollis, team leader of CaST with syringe driver bag sewn by Charlotte (Image: Facebook)

Karen Hogarth, medical director, said: “It is fantastic of our volunteer Mary, and her granddaughter Charlotte to make these wonderful syringe bags.

"They allow our patients the mobility and freedom to move away from the confines of their bed and their room.”

Charlotte is a cousin to Tom and Jack Mayoh, whose mother Louise Mayoh, was cared for by the hospice before she died from breast cancer in 2018.

Both the Cameron and Mayoh family are long term supporters of the hospice and the family as a whole have been helping to raise funds.

Fundraiser activities included Tom and Jack wearing shorts for a year and together raised more than £30,000 appearing in ITV news and elsewhere for their efforts.

Charlotte also ran a mile every day for a month last year to help raise funds, and her mum Laura Cameron (Louise’s sister) ran the London Marathon for the hospice in 2021.