The Last Hoorah was born from the hardest two years of my life. In 2024, Woking & Sam Beare Hospice cared for my uncle. On the very day I watched him pass away, my mum, Kimberley, received her own terminal diagnosis. During that time, I shared an idea with Mum that I couldn’t shake: helping families create celebrations filled with everything that made their person special. She believed in it immediately and encouraged me to enter the Spelthorne Business Plan Competition. As I finished presenting, Mum arrived in her wheelchair, still wearing her hospital band, to cheer me on. I won, and she was over the moon. Two days later, she was admitted to the hospice as an inpatient.

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That experience showed me just how difficult it is to hold everything together while you are grieving. When there is barely enough energy to face the day, finding venues, coordinating suppliers and managing performers can feel overwhelming. But I also know how much it means to look back on someone’s send-off and smile—to remember the music, the stories and the moments that felt completely like them. That is what I want to give every family I work with: the support and space to be present, while I take care of bringing their person’s Last Hoorah to life.