Tributes on the Tree of Remembrance 2025

Pershore Rotary’s 2025 Tree of Remembrance Appeal has raised over £5,500 for three vital local charities: St Richard’s Hospice, Acorns Children’s Hospice and the Midlands Air Ambulance. The funds will be shared equally, with £1,850 going to each charity.

We had 194 loved ones remembered by name. These names were all on our Christmas Tree in Acorns, and the full lists have been published on Pershore Rotary Website and Facebook page and in The Evesham Journal. The full list is below.

The Appeal’s success was made possible by the generosity of many. Donations came from a variety of sources, including our champagne tombola at Pershore’s Georgian Christmas Fayre, contributions in memory of loved ones, online donations via Facebook and the support of valued business sponsors. We are grateful to the Editors of our local parish newsletters for giving us the space to promote our 2025 Appeal.

Our thanks go to many local businesses for their continuing support, particularly the Riverside Fish Bar, Thomson & Bancks, Solicitors, K C Carpets Ltd, CJC (Worcester) Ltd, Aggregates & Landscaping Supplies, Johnsons Property Consultants, Jones & Associates, Bespoke Estate Agency and A G Redman & Son Ltd, Groundwork Contractors. Also, to the managers and staff of the Co-op and Asda in Pershore for allowing us to collect outside their stores in the run up to Christmas. To the Acorns Hospice shop in Pershore for making space in their window for our Christmas tree; to Number 8, Pershore for displaying the list of our loved ones and to Pershore Town Football Club for the use of their chairs.

Once again, our Christmas spirits were raised by choirs and bands performing outside Asda, bringing their own characteristic styles of festive cheer. We are enormously grateful to Sing for Health, the Feel-Good Chorus, Vocal High, Pershore Brass, Pershore Abbey Choir, Evesham Concert Band, #LovePershore, Pershore Community Choir, Dampier’s Round, Drakes Broughton Folk Band and the u3a Ukulele Band for giving us and shoppers alike so much enjoyment. Thank you one and all for making our Asda collection days so memorable.

Our Tree of Remembrance reminds us of those we have loved and lost.

This year we remember:

Dora, John Adams, Pauline Aldington, Martin Allnutt, Christopher Annis, Tony Attwood, Lilian Austin, Harry Badger, Mary Badger, Stephen Badger, Dennis Bent, Olive Bent, Edwin Bick, Rose Birch, Ken Bouchard, John Bowers, Zilpah Bowers, Millie Brant, Rueben Brant, Jim Brown, Julia Browning, Barbara Butler, Brenda Carson, John Carson, Deborah Chambers, Myrna Craddock, Bernard Cresswell, David Cresswell, The Family Crisp, Edward Cross, Eileen Cross, Daphne Crouch, Keith Crouch, Monica D’Ath, Gordon Davis, Mary Davis, Albert Davis, Ron Day, John Day, Ivan de’Burgl, Jackie Denham, Gordon Drew, Bryan Edmunds, Colin Edmunds, Glen Edmunds, Graham Edwards, Laurette Ernst, Ro Farr, Kenneth Felstead, Sylvia Felstead, Adrian Fletcher, William Ford, Ian Gardner, Pat Gardner, Ross Garratt, Ian Gerrard, Lindsay Gerrard, Fred Gould, Ruby Gould, Ben Green, Brian Green, Geraldine Green, Ray Green, Ray Griffiths, Matthew Hadley, Gillian Hall, Barbara Harber, David Harber, Ron Harber, Vera Harber, Gordon Hartley-Bennett, Jobie Haynes, Cliff Heeks, Gladys Hemming, John Hemming, Liz Hemming, Reg Hemming, Brian Hemmings, Nicholas Heritage, Roy Heritage, Colin Heslop, Dorothy Heslop, May Hobby, Sydney Hobby, Pat Horton, Terry Jauncey, Ann Jenkins, Mary Jenkins, Claire Jennings, Anne Johnson, John Jones, Cliff Keeler, Lois Knoll, John Laud, Susan Leadbeater, Connie Lees, Denis Lees, Marjorie Lees, Keith Lewis, Donald Lloyd, Rosie Long, Robert Long, Ray Long, John Lynch, Denis Major, Joan Major, Edith Marchant, Walter Marchant, Sharon Mathias, Nora McHardy, George McHardy, Flo McKinstry, Andrea Mendez, Juan Mendez, The Family Milward, Gordon Morris, Julia Morris, Pat Morris, David Newman, Patrick Newman, Frank Pannett, Mary Pannett, Peter Parker, Tony Payne, Terry Perry, Fergus Pickins, Frank Pittaway, Joan Pittaway, Margaret Portman, Ceri Powell, Handel Powell, Joseph Powell, The Family Pradhan, Steve ‘Prov’ Prothero, Betty Raymer, Charles Raymer, Christine Raymer, Garth Raymer, Robert Raymer, Eddie Reynolds, Jessie Reynolds, Dad Rickard, Mum Rickard, Graham Robertson, Joan Schneider, Richard Schneider, Dave Shaw, Phil Shaw, Bill Shellam, Eileen Shepherd, Dereck Shepherd, Beatrice Skyrme, Tony Smith, Audrey Smith, Stewart Speake, John Spearing, John Stafford Wood, Ray Steadman MBE, Philip Stockman, Rosa Stockman, William Stockman, Mary Stubbs, Sydney Stubbs, Betty Taylor, Fred Taylor, Richard Taylor, Robert ‘Spuddy’ Taylor, Greta Taylor, Stanley Taylor, Allan Temby, Helen Temby, Cyril Thomas, Jenny Thomas, Lizzie Thomas, Angela Thompson, Ray Thompson, Terry Thornton, Frank Thould, Henry Turner, Hilda Turner, Fred Twigg, Mary Twigg, Mick Vernalls, Doris Verrall, Ted Verrall, Gerald Webb, Peter Westby, Paul Whitehouse, Roger Wilesmith, Roy Winfield, Carole Winship, Majorie Wood, Jan Wortley, Linda Young and Malcolm Young.