Vital Role of Leagues of Friends

The CHA recognises the value of League of Friends throughout the UK.  We are pleased to work with Leagues of Friends and help to support their vital contribution to the health and wellbeing of their communities. The CHA provides resources, news, good practice ideas etc. and we are pleased to share of this widely through our website, social media and our newsletter.  We have many inspirational stories to share on how Leagues of Friends are supporting their local community hospitals. 

We are delighted that we have a growing network of League of Friends as members of the CHA. This means that we can do more as an organisation, and these connections are invaluable.  Leagues of Friends tell us how much they value being part of the CHA network, and you can read about this in blogs below written by Dr David Pope, President of Victoria Hospital Wimborne and Jan Turnbull, past Chair of Swanage Community Hospital. 

The CHA benefits enormously from having a Director on the Board from a Friends organisation.  Richard Hallett is Vice President of the Friends of Crowborough Hospital.   The CHA will continue to support Friends of Community Hospitals, and welcome their membership, their attendance at conferences, and their participation in the wider activities of the CHA.  Leagues of Friends and the CHA  share an ambition to promote the value and contribution of our local community hospitals as widely as possible.  Do join us here