Published on: 26 April 2019

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Pictured: Friends of Pendle Community Hospital volunteers Eileen Ashworth, Gerry Newsham and Kath Haworth hold aloft the coffee cups generously donate by Clitheroe-based company, Paper Cups

Patients and staff at Pendle Community Hospital continue to benefit from the hard work of volunteer charity, the Friends of Pendle Community Hospital and the generosity of the local community.

The Friends of Pendle group, active since the 1990s, certainly aren’t sitting back when it comes to helping their local hospital. Earlier this month, the Group delivered a specialist wheelchair and stacking chairs to Reedyford Ward, in addition to a brand new water fountain donated by a grateful former patient.

A busy month for donations continued with the kind hearted staff at Clitheroe-based Paper Cups who provided a supply to top quality cups for use in the Friends of Pendle Coffee Shop, located in the hospital’s main entrance.

Kath Haworth, Chair of the Friends of Pendle Community Hospital, said:

“The Friends work tremendously hard to support our local hospital by providing extras that NHS funding does not pay for. We’re grateful for the latest donations which make a real difference to patient care and the success of our hospital coffee shop.”