St Cuthbert’s Hospice is delighted to have been chosen as one of the charities which will benefit from the first ever Durham Arts Festival. The Hospice is a registered charity which opened in 1998, to provide care and support for people with life limiting conditions, a well as giving support to their families. It costs £1.6 million pounds per year to run the services, including an In Patient Unit which opened in 2006, and around a third of the costs are met by the Primary Care Trust. A further one million pounds per year has to be raised through local fundraising and events, and attending the Arts Festival gives people the chance to enjoy themselves while supporting a local charity.