OVER the last two years, the Women’s Royal Voluntary Service at Warrington Hospital has donated £55,000 for patient services.
The money has been used to buy equipment such as specialised orthopaedic wheelchairs, specialised equipment for ophthalmology and pathology and most recently televisions for in-patient wards.
More than 70 WRVS volunteers work at the hospital – at the shops in the main entrance and in outpatients and on the trolley which tours the wards.
Hilda Robinson, from Thelwall has been volunteering with the WRVS for 26 years.
She said: “I enjoy volunteering here at the hospital; you build up a rapport with the regular patients and I have made some good friends. It gets me out of the house and raising funds for hospital equipment is important. You give and in return you get the enjoyment of meeting the patients, staff and making friends along the way.”
WRVS project manager Geraldine Broadhurst said: “We help to change lives. Volunteers are at the heart of what we do. You can make a difference to the lives of people that you meet and here at Warrington Hospital it is about providing a service that provides refreshments to patients and staff, which in turn allows us to give back to the hospitals through donations from our sales. It is important to us that the monies are used for the patients that we serve. We want to make a difference, even if a small one, to benefit the community that we volunteer in.”
Picture: WRVS volunteers with Mike Atkinson, head of patient services at the hospital with two of the wheelchairs purchased with the funding.
