Rotary raise £7k for hospice care
LLANELLI Rotary Club has raised £7,000 for the Ty Bryngwyn Hospice in the town – thanks to generous match-funding from Swansea Building Society.
The initial funds were raised by Llanelli Rotary Club when it hosted a James Bond charity ball at the Diplomat Hotel in Llanelli.
The amount raised on the night came to just under £3,500.
Swansea Building Society then more-than match-funded the amount, bringing the total to £7,000.
Speaking at the cheque handover event was outgoing Llanelli Rotary president and current chairman of Swansea Building Society Ieuan Griffiths.
Mr Griffiths noted that this was the second time this year that Swansea Building Society had match-funded the money raised by the Rotary Club. The previous time being the Rotary Club’s last Christmas appeal.
A cheque for £7,000 was presented by Mr Griffiths to David Craddock, chairman and trustee of Ty Bryngwyn Hospice, who explained that the funds would be used to support the building of an annexe and the re-landscaping of the hospice’s gardens.
Ty Bryngwyn Llanelli Hospice, situated in the grounds of Prince Phillip Hospital in Dafen, is a Designated Centre of Excellence providing specialist palliative care for the community of Carmarthenshire.
It is the only hospice in the area with inpatient facilities and it provides specialist palliative care both in the community and with its seven inpatient beds.
The hospice aims to enrich patients’ quality of life, promote independence, and offers opportunities to empower people to make their own personal choices within a safe, therapeutic environment.
The hospice also provides information, support and advice for its patients and their families, and offers a range of individual and group activities at Ty Bryngwyn and within the community.
Ieuan Griffiths said: “As chairman of the Society, I very much welcome the fact that there is a strong commitment by the society to its mutuality of ownership and the support it gives its communities across the South Wales region.
“Though headquartered in Swansea, Llanelli is very much part of the society’s community, which stretches from east Wales to Carmarthenshire in the west and beyond.
Indeed, as the society enters its centenary year next January, it is expanding quickly and will continue to support its members and a growing number of local charities as part of its ongoing mission.”
Swansea Building Society was established in 1923. Its head office is located at 11/12 Cradock Street. It also has branch offices in Swansea, Mumbles, Carmarthen and Cowbridge.
The society is one of only three remaining mutual building societies in Wales and the only one with its headquarters in southwest Wales.
The society’s principal objective is the provision of mortgages secured on residential property. These mortgages are funded by savings balances deposited in a variety of traditional savings accounts.