In 2015 Jo Tyler, 42 year old mother of twins, a boy and a girl, committed to take on the 3 Peaks Challenge with the aim of raising £500 for the Diamond Jubilee Appeal.
ASDA have donated a shopping trolley for use by the Book Sales Team at St Cross.
Tony Mann, a long standing Vice President of Rugby Town Football Club, recently held his 70th birthday party at the Club’s VS Bar.
The Friends Diamond Jubilee Appeal continues to draw amazing support from the community through a variety of fund raising events and donations.
Children’s Outpatients have a new location in part of the former Hawthorn Ward and the Friends were delighted to be asked to support the move
The late Ken Chandler recently left a legacy to the Rokeby Lodge with instructions that the Lodge distribute the funds to charitable causes.
New Bariatric plinths are delivered to Out Patients.
The Charity’s fund raising team held their annual Black Tie Dinner on 11th July 2015.
Over one hundred supporters enjoyed a superb a Spring Concert given by Rugby Male Voice Choir in St Andrews Parish Church on the 18th of April 2015.
We have published our Gift Lists on this page and, with that, have recorded that a grand total of £3,111,523 has been spent, since the charity was founded in 1955, on equipment donations and support for projects at the Hospital of St Cross and the Community and Mental Health Services in Rugby.
Three sixth form students from Lawrence Sheriff School got together recently to raise £187 for the Friends of St Cross Diamond Jubilee Appeal.
On the 13th of March the Mayor invited members of Shree Kalyan Mandal (Rugby Hindu Temple) to the Mayor’s Parlour and to view the Council Chambers where the group presented him with a cheque for £501 for the Mayor’s Charity which is the Friends of St Cross.