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Cookham
Society Boost for Elizabeth House
(with
thanks to Mike Copland)
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(1
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A cheque from the Cookham Society
has taken Elizabeth House to within a whisker of the money it has
needed to pay for its recently completed extension. Accepting
the cheque for £2,000 from Jean Stretton, Cookham Society
president, Mike Copland, who chairs the Elizabeth House fund-raising
team, thanked the Society and its members for giving their
generous support to an institution which is at heart of the Cookham
community
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Jean Stretton with
Elizabeth House president Wendy Craig
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The cheque means that a total of just
over £170,000 has been raised or committed so far towards the cost of
the extension project at Elizabeth House. It came in the same
week that Cookham's centre for older people gave a 'thank you'
party for all of the individuals and trusts who have contributed to
the fund-raising. Around 100 people attended the Open Day last
Saturday and had the chance to look around the new facilities - and
also see what work remains to be done.
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Front: Mavis
Winfield and Elsie Watkins with Wendy Craig and (rear) Jean Stretton
and Reg Willsher, Elizabeth House chairman
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Mike Copland said that the money raised
so far almost exactly covers the cost of the initial extension
project. He added, "We now plan to do some work on the
first floor to bring it up to modern standards. It will be
mainly redecorating and carpeting and is due to be completed before
the summer. We do have reserves that can contribute to this
additional work but we are always open to contributions if people
would still like to get involved".
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Front: the two
Presidents - Wendy Craig and Jean Stretton; rear - left to right: John
Bowley, Mike Copland (both Elizabeth House trustees), Cookham Society
chairperson Georgina Kilner, Reg Willsher. We also noted that this
line up included four present and past chairmen of the Cookham
Society!
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