ON Tuesday, October 7 Marie Curie Cancer Care will open its hospice doors to members of the local community.

To celebrate Hospice Care Week, staff Marie Curie Hospice in Penarth, Cardiff and the Vale will be open to anyone who wishes to come along to raise awareness about the range of services it provides and how best to access them.

Running from between noon and 3pm it will highlight Marie Curie’s new Helper scheme, what the charity does for carers, the specialist bereavement support it provides for adults and children and how it support different ethnic minority groups.

Marie Curie is the UK’s leading charity providing care to people with any terminal illness in their own homes or in one of its nine hospices.

Last year in Wales the charity, which employs 420 people in Wales, including 160 nurses and health care assistants, provided care to more than 3,000 terminally ill people and their families at home or in the Marie Curie Hospice.