Sponsorship money raised for family carers
Published on Monday 31 December 2012 10:02
A cheque for four figures has been handed over to Suffolk Family Carers by Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service.
The money comes from the service’s extreme charity ladder climb in July.
In total, £4,000 was raised by firefighters, councillors and staff in aid of the 2012 chief fire officer’s challenge.
The latest cheque handed over, though, was for just over £1,271.
Computers are latest donations to Mile Cross Phoenix Centre’s arson appeal
Computers are latest donations to Mile Cross Phoenix Centre’s arson appeal
Phoenix Centre children’s development worker Trish Hewett receives the donated computer from Wendy Maxwell and Derek Oakes from carer group chill4us. PHOTO BY SIMON FINLAY
By Tom Bristow Monday, December 31, 2012
10:22 AM
An arson-hit community centre was given a helping hand on Friday when a carers group donated a computer.
The Phoenix Centre in Mile Cross was partially destroyed in a fire on Saturday, December 15. But a flood of donations has meant the Mile Cross Road community centre has quickly got back on its feet.
The PC was donated by Wendy Maxwell from Hellesdon, who founded a website and chatroom for carers called Chill4us.
Mrs Maxwell said: “It was a real joy to give the PC to the Phoenix Centre. It was awful that such a thing should happen around Christmas. The staff are keeping cheerful through difficult times.”
Thousands of elderly needlessly in hospital
Thousands of elderly people are being kept in hospital needlessly after the number of district nurses fell by almost one fifth.
By Tim Ross, Political Correspondent
8:00AM GMT 31 Dec 2012
Official NHS figures disclosed that the number of district nurses working in England declined from 7,813 in May 2010 to 6,424 in August this year.
This represented an 18 per cent cut in the service, which provides nurses to visit elderly and disabled adults in their own homes, since the Coalition was formed.
The fall coincided with a marked increase in the number of days that frail patients spent on hospital wards because of a shortage of adequate community health and care services.
