By Jill Stocks
A new retail outlet for a much-loved Leeds charity will open next month on Horsforth Town Street.
The new shop will be located where travel agent Althams was previously located, next door to Italian restaurant Napoli Nel Cuore, and will raise funds for the Leeds Hospital Charity.
Amanda Terry is the Regional Support Manager for the charity.
“We open on 8 May at 10am. We’re a brand new charity shop that helps the Leeds Hospitals Charity. All of the funds go directly to them. We are also trying to recruit volunteers as well.”
Jake Hornsby is the charity’s Director of Retail. He said: “We’re extremely excited about coming to Horsforth. It’s an area we know there is a lot of NHS staff in the area and we help the staff as well as the patients in the hospitals. We’ve been given a very warm welcome by everyone in the area as well.
“What we’re trying to deliver is a great shopping experience for people as well as giving them value. We want it to be a lovely place to be but you’re still going to find some bargains as well.
“We want to be able to give back to the community as well as raise money for Leeds hospitals.
“We’re also doing an initial promotion where anyone who comes in with a bag of donations gets twenty percent off.”
Leeds Hospital Charity raises funds to support NHS staff, patients and families and fund projects and research across the eight hospitals in the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, enhancing the care already provided.
Despite the NHS being publicly funded it is subject to budget restrictions and charities such as Leeds Hospitals Charity enable the NHS to do more and pay for extras that the NHS could not ordinarily afford.
Leeds Hospitals Charity is a grant giving charity awarding grants to fund a variety of projects across Leeds Teaching Hospitals. In the last five years it has awarded £33.7 million in grants to these hospitals, and grants are awarded with a focus on six areas of priority: equipment, research, education, health and wellbeing, environment and specialist staff.
Their current appeals include the Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease, Leeds Childrens Hospital and Leeds Cancer Centre among many others.
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