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Welcome to Friends of Savernake Website
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Savernake Hospital
Friends of Savernake Hospital and the Community celebrated their 50th Anniversary in 2008. As part of the celebration we launched a website so that while working to ensure a healthy future for the hospital, we could forge stronger links with the community we serve.
Savernake Hospital has a long history of being surrounded by folk who have given freely of their time or expertise and have also raised huge sums of money. The very fact that there is a hospital at all was due to the generosity of the Marquis of Ailesbury who donated the site on which the hospital still stands today. Serving a wide rural community, there is no doubt that this hospital has a very special place in the hearts of people from West Berkshire and East Wiltshire.
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The grounds
The League of Friends was set up some 10 years after the NHS came into being when it became obvious, that although healthcare had become free for everyone, there were many gaps in its provision that would still need to be filled. Over the years, the League of Friends has evolved and changed. We continue to support Savernake Hospital but have developed our constitution so that we can also assist other local organisations that are taking care of people in the area and this also enables us to provide help to individuals in the community. We have moved with the times!
Nowadays we are finding that support alone is not always enough. There have been many struggles to ensure the survival of the hospital and the services within it. Today, even after a radical modernisation and rebuild, the hospital’s ability to deliver first class healthcare to the community is under threat. And so the fight goes on!
Paul Lefever – Chairman
When we have completed the website, the story of “Saving Savernake” since 1990 will be here along with the fascinating history from as far back as 1866 when the first Savernake Hospital opened. The History Project has only just begun – and we would like you to take part! More of that on the History Project page.
There’s much more – have a wander through the site. Sign up by becoming a member of the Friends (click to see the Committee members) – have your say – see what we do and maybe what you can do to help. Keep up to date with the news of the Judicial Review on C.A.S.H.
We welcome comments and suggestions, this is a website for the many thousands of people who have used, supported or shown interest in Savernake Hospital. We look forward to hearing from you – we need your support!
