Volunteers organised 3 coffee mornings in September and raised an amazing £1,056 for the Diamond Jubilee Appeal!
On Thursday 4th December Friends Committee Members, Tracey Lennard and Kathryn Lawrence decorated a tree for the Festival of Christmas Trees at St Andrews Church.
The Friends Diamond Jubilee Appeal has got off to a great start with two Rugby lads, Adrian Hartopp and Paul Davison, abseiling 112 feet from the dome of the West Orchard Centre in Coventry
The fund raising drive for the Diamond Jubilee Appeal continues with another superb event organised by Tracey Lennard and her fundraising sub-committee.
On 28th June Jamesway Travel became the first major business supporter of the Friends Diamond Jubilee Appeal presenting an initial cheques £500 respectively.
The Friends of St Cross have donated four new chairs which will help to improve the patient experience at the Urgent Care Centre.
On Saturday 22nd November 2014 representatives of the Friends of St Cross attended Rugby Town FC’s game with Leighton Town to announce changes to the Blue Chip Lottery that mean that the Charity now receives even more from the scheme.
The Friends continue to support St Cross while appealing for the Diamond Jubilee Appeal and have recently donated 3 sets of surgical instruments one set of which is pictured being examined by some of the theatre staff.
On the 7th of December the family dressed up in Santa suits to take part in the Jingle Jog at Ryton Pools
On Monday 24th November Heather Green and Willy Goldschmidt attended the AGM of the Warwickshire Women’s Bowls Association and were presented with a cheque for £1,700.
On Saturday the 15th November, the Friends held a Christmas Bazaar at Arnold House in the town centre and the appeal fund is rapidly closing in on halfway to its initial target of raising at least £60,000!
Thanks to the support and generosity of the many holders of the St Cross Saver Account the Friends of St Cross have received another massive donation from the Coventry Building Society.
Oak Ward at St Cross has recently received eight new movement detecting pads which are known as ‘falls monitors’.
In October, Friends supporters attended a superb luncheon at Ferguson’s restaurant in the town centre.