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WELCOME TO FRIENDS OF THE FRIARAGE!
MAKING A DIFFERENCE TO OUR COMMUNITY ACROSS HAMBLETON & RICHMONDSHIRE!

OUR CHARITY NEEDS YOU!

We're looking for enthusiastic new trustees to help us to develop further and to launch a major new fundraising campaign in the next few months.  

Ideally, we'd like to strengthen our base with trustees with experience of either large scale fundraising, retail management or financial expertise.  You may have seen we're currently recruiting to a paid fundraiser post to do the day to day fundraising work. Trustees meet one evening a month at the Friarage and all trustees participate in one of the supporting committees: Fundraising, Shop Management, Communications or Finance.  If you're interested in an informal discussion please call Susan Watson or Tony Walters, the co-chairs of the charity.  You can contact them via this website or by the phone number above.

 

 

Thank you as ever to our fantastic and loyal community who continue to make hospital improvements possible.  Any and all donations are so welcome, whether to our collection boxes, purchasing something in the Friends Hospital Shop, using Amazon Smile, doing a sponsored event or leaving a gift in your will.  

Call us to chat through your ideas or to donate directly simply click the link above.

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About Us
Supporting the Friarage Hospital and local community for over 60 years

Originally the League of Friends, the charity was established in 1957 to support the hospital, its patients, staff and visitors by volunteering and raising funds to supplement the services provided by the NHS.  More than sixty years later we continue to benefit the patients and staff of Friarage Hospital and Hambleton & Richmondshire.

In the last sixty years, the enthusiasm and efforts of our hundreds, if not thousands, of amazing supporters have helped us raise an outstanding £5million.

80

Volunteers

5,500

Volunteer hours in 2019

£5 million

Raised and spent over 60 years
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Testimonials

 
  • "The Friends of the Friarage has a wonderful reputation for all the fund raising they do and the support they give to both patients and staff at the Friarage Hospital and I have to say it is well deserved. Once again, thank you for your support."
    Consultant anaesthetist Richard Muzawazi
  • "I see my volunteer role as a warm, friendly greeting to the Outpatients Department. I aim to put patients at their ease and to direct and help them where I can."
    Diane
  • "I like to meet the patients and direct them to the appropriate clinic."
    Myra
  • "I enjoy doing the trolley as I feel that I am giving something back, for all the treatment I have had in the past from the Friarage. I enjoy meeting and chatting to patients, especially those who don’t have visitors. Also for those patients not able to go to the hospital shop they are pleased to buy from the trolley."
    Clare McMurray
  • "It’s always nice to chat to people and to help them. Patients often say “thank you” for coming round, even if they don’t buy anything. We feel we are giving something back to the community. Anything that helps the Friarage patients during their stay must be good!"
    Joan Sharp
  • "I’ve worked at the Friarage shop for over a year with many different volunteers. I enjoy the contact with people, both customers and staff. Working as a cashier and being involved with stock replenishment, I love feeling I am making the shop a success and of benefit to visitors and staff as well as in-patients."
    Steve Forrest
  • "I work here because I love people, especially in the hospital shop where you are helping patients, visitors and the staff. It makes me feel good. Sometimes on a morning I feel a little low but when I come into the shop I feel great. It gives me a lift for the rest of the day."
    Dot Boynton