
Award for Friends Chairperson.
A High Tea was held in the Full Circle Restaurant on 25th June, to present awards to those nominated for their efforts towards the...

General Data Protection Regulations - Privacy Notice.
The Charity is the "data controller". This means that they are responsible for deciding how they hold and use personal information about...

Friends embrace the nationwide Sugar Smart campaign.
The comprehensive way the Friends’ shops and cafes have embraced the new nationwide Sugar Smart campaign, to counter obesity, has won...


Flower Boxes Brighten Up the Hospital's Grounds
Flower Boxes Now Brighten Up the Hospital’s Grounds A nursery providing work for up to 30 people with special needs is ‘saying it with...

Help for Dementia Patients
The Friends have responded to a plea to provide dementia friendly items to the hospital’s Shackleton Ward. Purchased for £3,945 were a...

New Fluid Warmer Ready for Emergency Patients
Rosie Jenkins (left) with the new warming cabinet. Also pictured is Friends volunteer Margaret Bowyer. A compact fluid warming cabinet,...

Young Sophie Walks Tall for Hospital Charity
Young Sophie Walks Tall for Hospital Charity Ten-year-old Sophie Frost, who last October undertook a sponsored walk in aid of the Friends...

Seven Trolleys for Seven Rooms
Pictured: Sister Lesley-Anne Moody (left) with Friends volunteer Sylvia Thorne. Nurses in the hospital’s Pre-Assessment and Admissions...

Midwives Now better Able to Listen with Mother - Thanks to the Friends
The latest specialist equipment for midwives to listen to the heart-beat of babies still in the womb is now available to midwives, thanks...

Introducing Another Wonderful Friends Volunteer
For Nancy Allen (pictured) the NHS is very much a give and take experience. As well as receiving treatment at St Mary’s Laidlaw Day...