Key Points
- Jones Village Bakery has launched a year-round donation partnership with Nightingale House Hospice in Wrexham.
- Tea cakes and sausage rolls are being supplied to Caffi Cwtch, the hospice café, with every penny raised going to the charity.
- The café is open to the public as well as patients, relatives and visitors, and forms an important part of the hospice’s income.
- Nightingale House says it costs £5.6 million this year to provide its services, with only around 20 per cent coming from statutory funding.
- The hospice says the new arrangement is intended to provide steady income rather than only supporting one-off fundraising events.
- The partnership builds on a long-standing relationship between the bakery and the hospice.
Wrexham (Wales Times) July 28, 2026 – A new bakery partnership is helping support Nightingale House Hospice through sales of donated baked goods, with the arrangement designed to generate ongoing income for the charity.
How the partnership works?
As reported by Nation.Cymru Staff of Nation.Cymru, Jones Village Bakery is donating tea cakes and sausage rolls to be sold at Caffi Cwtch, the café at Nightingale House Hospice. The charity said all proceeds from those sales will go directly to its work, strengthening a fundraising stream that already includes its shops and café. The café serves the public alongside patients, relatives and visitors, which broadens the reach of the initiative and helps the hospice raise money in a routine setting.
Why the hospice needs support?
According to Sarah Povey, the hospice’s Corporate and Donor Relationship Manager, this year’s operating cost is £5.6 million, and only about 20 per cent is covered by statutory funding. She said the rest has to be raised through corporate supporters, community backing, grants and trusts. The hospice also said fundraising has become more difficult because of the cost of living crisis, making dependable partnerships more valuable. The new café supply deal therefore adds a recurring source of income at a time when the charity says it needs one.
What the bakery said?
Tracie Edwards, Jones Village Bakery’s Sales Manager and community activities co-ordinator, said the company wanted to support the hospice all year round rather than only through individual events. She said the bakery’s connection to Nightingale House had deepened after staff visited the hospice and saw its work first-hand. She also said many people linked to the bakery, including staff and their families, had been touched by the hospice’s care over the years. The bakery has supported the hospice in other ways too, including supplying Welsh cakes and sausage rolls for the Midnight Walk fundraiser and taking part in other community-linked activities.
What the chef said?
Head Chef Ian Futter, who joined Nightingale House six months ago after working at the Lemon Tree restaurant in uk/local/wrexham/">Wrexham, said he values the challenge of cooking for hospice patients and café customers. He said the food must be tasty while also meeting the right nutritional needs for patients. He described the donated tea cakes as “absolutely beautiful” and said the sausage rolls would be added to the café’s next menu in the coming weeks. His comments underline how the food partnership is being folded into the café’s day-to-day service, rather than treated as a short-term promotion.
Why this matters locally?
The development matters because hospices rely heavily on local fundraising and community partnerships to cover costs that are not met by public funding. For Nightingale House, the bakery deal appears to turn everyday café purchases into a continuing source of support. For Jones Village Bakery, it extends a long-running charitable relationship into a practical, year-round contribution. The result is a simple fundraising model built around local products, local customers and local need.
Background of the development
Nightingale House Hospice has long worked with businesses and community supporters to raise money for care services in Wrexham and the surrounding area. Jones Village Bakery has already supported the hospice through event donations and other fundraiser-linked contributions, showing that this partnership did not begin from scratch. The latest arrangement is different because it gives the charity a steady stream of income instead of relying only on occasional appeals. That shift matters at a time when hospices are reporting tighter finances and greater pressure on fundraising.
Prediction
For hospice users, visitors and local supporters, the arrangement is likely to make the café more closely tied to the charity’s wider funding needs. If the partnership performs well, it could encourage more local businesses to back hospices through regular product donations rather than single events. For Nightingale House, that may mean a more dependable fundraising base at a time when it says every stream of income matters. For the local community, it could also strengthen the sense that everyday spending at the café is directly supporting care services in the area.
