Milton Keynes hospice invites you to remember loved ones with special lantern event

Willen Hospice is inviting Milton Keynes people to remember their loved ones with a special Twilight Lantern Week.

Twilight is a popular event in the hospice calendar and is usually held during one evening - but due to the pandemic, it will run for a week until until Friday (September 25).

A lantern display will be lit up in the hospice gardens between 7-8.30pm every evening.

Everyone is welcome to view the display from the lakeside for free, but hospice fundraisers are encouraging people to buy their own lantern for £10, which will be posted out to them.

This can be decorated, and either kept at home, or placed by the hospice gardens fence (lakeside) to be added to the display. The money from the lanterns will go to the hospice.

Tracey Jago, events manager at Willen Hospice, said: “Our Twilight event is a really special way to remember the lives of our loved ones, whether they were cared for at Willen Hospice or elsewhere.

"It’s been a very challenging year for those who’ve lost someone. It’s possible that some people weren’t able to go to a funeral, or perhaps had to attend virtually. I hope our event will give people that time to take a moment to reflect and remember.”

To order a lantern, visit here by Wednesday (September 23).