St Catherine's Hospice has launched a great new way to show your support for their work, which lets your fingers do the fundraising.

By texting the word CARING to 70300, you will donate £3 towards the care and comfort the hospice provides local people, their families and friends. And if you're a UK taxpayer, you can also Gift Aid this donation, which costs nothing to you but makes it worth £3.75 to St Catherine's.

Caroline North, who leads the team at the hospice's in-patient unit teamed up with Deputy Charge Nurse David Charman to help launch the scheme – with the aid of an oversize mobile phone!

Matthew Cornish, Fundraising Manager at St Catherine's Hospice says, "Text giving is a simple, safe and secure way of showing your support for our vital work. We get 100% of your donation, which comes out of your mobile phone bill or from your pay-as-you-go credit.

"We hope that text giving will encourage more people to help us make a difference to the lives of local people. We need to raise £13,698 every day which is a huge task, but initiatives like this really do help us get there. For example, £3.75 from one text donation with Gift Aid could cover the cost of toiletries for a patient staying overnight at the hospice."

And if your mobile phone itself has seen better days, then St Catherine's is keen to take it off your hands. Through the Forgotten Mobile scheme, the hospice can recycle your old or broken mobile phones and turn them into cash donations that support patient care. Drop your old phone off at your local St Catherine's Hospice shop on the Croydon Rd, Caterham.

For more information please call Matthew on 01293 447324 or visit www.stch.org.uk