The hospice has launched its most significant campaign to recuperate the deficit. It costs £3.9 million a year to run the hospice, or £10,000 a day, and the cancellation of fundraising events as well as the temporary closure of its shops, warehouse and Café Retreat has taken a huge financial toll. The campaign, taking the form of a Door Drop to 80,000 households in Blackburn with Darwen, Hyndburn and the Ribble Valley, will hit letter boxes this week. Backing the campaign is Steve Almond, who lost his wife Anita to terminal cancer on November 5, 2020 Anita was 47 when diagnosed with ovarian cancer, before losing her battle aged 56.