Recent Events
Annual General Meeting, Wednesday, 19 May
The meeting was chaired by our President, Lord Cadogan. Mrs Ada Dawnay was appointed the new Chairman and Mrs Pamela Griffiths the new Vice Chairman. Mrs Heather Lawrence, hospital Chief Executive spoke about developments in the hospital.
Friends and guests gathered afterwards for a reception in the Academic Atrium.
Saturday, May 8 - Hospital Open Day - Friends Raffle
Many thanks to all those who supported our stall at the hospital Open Day. Over £800 was raised for The Friends in our raffle, booksale and cake sale. (All the prizes in the raffle have now been claimed.)
Two Concerts by The Imperial College School of Medicine Music Society,
March 16 and 20
Friends of Chelsea & Westminster Hospital enjoyed two magical evenings of music on 16th and 20th March when the Imperial College School of Medicine Music Society performed programmes of choral music and orchestral music.
The first concert featured the Music Society’s choir singing Brahms Requiem and close-harmony a cappella works including Lullaby for Lucy; Hallelujah; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square and Panis Angelicus.
The orchestral concert included Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and Bruch's Violin Concerto with soloist Mervyn Chong, a third-year medical student.
We are most grateful to this music society who have chosen The Friends as their charity of the year. The performers are doctors in training who also perform music to a professional standard.
Christmas Raffle, November 23 - December 21
Our Christmas raffle draw was on December 21. The winning number was 0172.
Thank you to all those who participated to benefit the hospital.
Christmas Fair, 9 December, 2009
The Mayor and Mayoress of the Royal Borough and Father Christmas visited the fair. The choir of Imperial College medical school sang carols round the hospital Christmas Tree. Many thanks are due to all those who helped run and man the stalls, to those who provided things to sell and to all those friends who spent money. As usual, the bottle tombola proved a popular stall but all the stalls were busy and people were most generous in supporting The Friends.
Festival of Carols, 1 December, 2009
Our annual Carol Service, with the choir conQordia, and shared with The Friends of The Royal Marsden Hospital and The Friends of the Royal Brompton Hospital, at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square. Lord (Melvin) Bragg, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Lindy Alexander were part of the interesting programme at this well-attended event.
Friends Week, 19 - 23 October, 2009
Volunteers were in the hospital main atrium on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of Friends Week to talk about The Friends and to encourage new members to join us. This was also an opportunity to make a donation, and the volunteers who carried our collecting tins collected over £1,200 - many thanks to all you gave and to the volunteers.
Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey, 8 October 2009
By kind invitation of one of our Vice Presidents, the Very Reverend John Hall, Dean of Westminster, an event to launch an appeal in aid of the Beta Cell/Diabetes Unit in the hospital. This very special event included Evensong in The Abbey with guests seated in The Quire, a private tour of the Abbey and a cocktail reception in the historic Jerusalem Chamber, adjacent to the Abbey, hosted by The Dean.