Readers are being asked to raise the funds to build a £1m hospice day care centre for Lincoln.

The Lincolnshire Echo is leading the appeal for the last £250,000 needed for the St Barnabas Hospice project.

A £471,000 grant of lottery cash has already been awarded with a further £250,000 ready and waiting in the hospice reserves.

The land has been bought, and building is expected to begin early next year with patients arriving a few months later.

The Echo has promised to publicise all fundraising events, no matter how small.

The paper said: “Every donation will help – that’s the message being driven home by the Echo’s appeal to raise funds for the new St Barnabas day care centre.”

The centre is expected to comprise of a day care service for patients in the last year of their lives, an education centre for health professionals, and a base for the Hospice at Home service, which cares for people in their own homes.

All the services are free to the public.

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