TWO GENERATIONS of a family have helped raise funds which will benefit the lives of many elderly residents of Chatterwood House, a Liss-based nursing home.
Shirley Parker, a resident at Chatterwood, has her daughters and grand-daughter to thank for a welcome cash injection to the nursing home’s activities fund.
Shirley’s daughters, Debbie and Claire, who a year ago presented a cheque to the Chatterwood Residents’ Funds Account for £518, raised £708 at a charity quiz held in Guildford.
Together with their husbands and children, the sisters sold tickets to quiz entrants and organised a raffle, with the prizes being sourced and donated by businesses.
Hosting the quiz and sourcing the questions was ‘Mike on the Mike’.
Debbie and Claire chose to donate half of the money raised to Chatterwood and the other £354 to the Woking and Sam Beare Hospice, where their father was cared for in later life.
Not only did Shirley’s daughters raise money for Chatterwood but her granddaughter Laura and her friend Leah, who are both 11 years old, baked cakes and sold them outside their house to passers-by, raising a grand sum of £25 which they have also donated to Chatterwood.
The staff, family and friends of the nursing home thanked Debbie, Claire, Laura and Leah for all their much-appreciated time and hard work.
The money will be spent on maintaining and extending the varied programme of organised activities which entertain and improve the lives of residents.
These include reminiscence therapy, musical movement, flower arranging and other crafts.
The nursing home’s annual summer fete is also a popular event for the community of Petersfield and Liss.