Your Local Charity Supporting Oxted Health Centre
We wanted to let the community know what we have been doing during the last twelve months.
It’s been a difficult time, with lockdowns came the cancellation of many of the fundraising events we had previously relied on to raise funds. However, with funds we had raised 2019/20 we managed to provide the Health Centre with a Surgery Pod, located in the waiting room to provide patients with the ability to check their blood pressure without a doctor’s appointment; a Vital Signs monitor; 2 large vaccine fridges, face masks, material for scrubs and an examination couch. This was also achieved by a successful Just Giving appeal suggested and organised by one of our student members.
Christmas arrived and the selling of our charity cards, ordered before the Covid crisis, posed us with another dilemma. We could not sell them from the surgery. We were so grateful that Limpsfield Memorial Stores came to our rescue by agreeing to stock them. Combined with social media advertising we managed to raise £450.
Hopefully now, with the incredibly fast rollout of the Covid vaccine by OHC, our world is slowly beginning to open up. The surgery need to replace the thirteen examination lamps in the consulting rooms. The old lamps are unrepairable. The surgery has a limited budget to facilitate this. We have agreed to provide six new LED, wall mounted, lights priced £455 each. We have already received a very generous donation of £682-48 from the members of the Pollards Oak WI. We are so grateful to you, thank you.
Some more good news, we are now registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Our Registered Charity Number is 1193958, this was a huge milestone for us. OPAG has six Trustees but we would love to welcome anybody who would like to join us – new ideas are always welcome in our fundraising endeavours. To contact us or make a donation please email us, opag@talktalk.net.
We are so lucky to have such a dedicated team at OHC and with your help we will continue to support them in the coming months and years.
Thank you all for your support so far. Stay safe, keep healthy and here’s to sunnier days ahead.
Pat Moore (Chair) Julie Ludbrook (Treasurer)
