Hospice needs £2.7m. on meter
Wednesday 9th February 2011, 2:29PM GMT.
Launching the Bourgometer are, from the left, Alex Mauger, Advocate Peter Harwood, Liz Hodder, Jo Boyd, Advocate Alison Ozanne and Jurat Mike Tanguy. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 1091684)
THE Bourgometer will keep people updated on the fund-raising for a state-of-the-art hospice.
Work is progressing on the £4m. redevelopment of Les Bourgs but £2.7m. is still needed to complete it.
A new sign, sponsored by Carey Olsen and created by the AWS Design and Sign Ltd at a discount rate, now stands on the St Andrew’s site facing the main road.
Head of the redevelopment appeal committee Advocate Alison Ozanne said the sign would be updated whenever significant sums came in.
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I have not followed the background to this re-build very closely so I may be missing some important fact.
Considering the huge sum of £2.7 million still to be raised, why have the trustees gone ahead with such a lavish design?
My limited knowledge of building techniques tells me that a curved building is more expensive to both build and fit out, so while it looks very good, it seems to me that a more ‘straight line’ design would have given the same interior space and facilities for a lesser cost, resulting in less fund raising required
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So they started a big project like that without the necessary funds to complete it?
I’m all for charity but seriously, that was a bit short sighted really. Can the States not put some money towards it or something?
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Have you driven past the new hospice lately it is going up at a rate of knots, it looks very impressive, what an asset to the island,it was so badly needed, so dig deep into your pockets people, you never know when you or your family might need it.When my dear mum was taken ill with cancer, I dont know how I would have coped without the hospice.
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of course the modern hospice is needed. but remember as you are cajoled into paying your bit to pay for it – if this was a states facility (as it should be) and the many drippingly wealthy residents more heavily and fairly taxed, the lower paid would not need to be emotionally blackmailed into paying an unfair share. (that can be said about most charity – it is propogandised by the wealthy minority to avoid their class being more fairly taxed by the state).
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Get another £1M lottery started.There’s still some life in that idea left
Perhaps go for 4 prizes of a life changing half million each
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