THERE were 1,000 extra surprises for St Rocco’s Hospice when the proceeds of a “Gentlemen’s Evening” organised by Warrington Freemasons was handed over.
The hospice had been expecting to receive £2,000 – but instead the donation was for £3,000.
On the night it was thought that £2,000 had been raised and the hospice’s community fundraiser Malcolm Kindon, who acted as auctioneer, took that good news back to the hospice.
However, when all bills had been paid and all proceeds received the actual amount raised was £3,000.
Organiser Vic Charlesworth said: “Some of the outgoings were not as much as we had anticipated and we received additional donations which had not been taken into account when we did the initial total.”
The England World Cup and Manchester United star Nobby Stiles was the big attraction at the evening, organised by the Warrington Group of Masonic Lodges.
The £3,000 is being used to pay for an additional treatment couch in the hospice’s new Day Care Unit.
Building work on the new unit is now complete but further accommodation is taking shape which will provide office and storage space along with rooms for Macmillan Nurses.
The Day Care Unit has cost £3.3million and has doubled the number of patients the hospice can accommodate each day in addition to the 10 in-patient beds.
This latest donation means that Warrington Freemasons have donated a total of £49,000 to the hospice in the last eight years.
Malcolm Kindon said: “I would like to say a very sincere thank you to Warrington Freemasons, not only for this latest donation but for all the tremendous support over many years.”
Picture: Warrington Freemasons’ Vic Charlesworth tries out the treatment couch watched by Day Unit Sister Caroline Kay and Malcolm Kindon.
