MONEY is raised in various traditional ways such as concerts,  coffee mornings, fetes, cheese and wine evenings, jumble sales, sales stalls - and similar events - as well as members’ subscriptions, donations and legacies.

   The National Health Service is always short of money.   When the Trust identifies a need that cannot be funded from local budgets they outline their needs to the Committee of the League who decide whether or not to finance that particular requirement.

As well as fund raising, the League also provides the following services:

• A well-stocked Hospital Shop for patients, staff and visitors in the Main Entrance Hall.  This has been trading for more that 20 years and is the major fundraiser with all the profits going directly into funding projects.

• A Trolley Shop providing a daily service to the wards for newspapers, confectionery and other sundry items.

• A weekly stall selling fancy goods in the Out-Patient Department.

• A weekly library service to all wards.

What our work is all about . . . Leighton Hospital from the air.

Photograph by courtesy of The Chronicle

The League’s Members benefit the hospital by:  

• Supporting its work

• Encouraging people to give their time in voluntary work within the hospital.

• Creating a link between the hospital and the community it serves.

• Raising money by encouraging the public to see the vital need in what we do in providing funds to supplement the Trust's resources.

• Spending all that we raise in providing things for the benefit and welfare of the patients and staff.