Beaconsfield’s link to legendary nurse Edie Pusey was celebrated once more as The South Bucks Community Hospice shop reopened in the town.
Cllr. Anita Cranmer, deputy mayor of Beaconsfield, cut the ribbon on the newly-revamped Maxwell Road bookshop and emporium – the third hospice shop to be refurbished this year.
But as the deputy mayor and hospice chief executive Jo Woolf celebrated the dawning of a new era, they also reflected on the history of the charity, founded in the 1980s by Edie Pusey.
“It was a pleasure to be able to reopen The South Bucks Community Hospice charity shop”, said Cllr. Anita Cranmer.
“Edie Pusey, the founder of The South Bucks Community Hospice, lived in Beaconsfield for several years before she passed away, which makes it even more special to have been able to re-open the shop in the place where she lived.”
The refurbishments, along with the move to the new state-of-the-art hospice, symbolises the beginning of a new period in the history of the charity.
Jo Woolf said: “We have moved this year from Pusey House on Amersham Hill to our wonderful new hospice, Butterfly House.
“But it is right that we never forget all that Edie Pusey did for us and her patients, and her name will live on forever.
“It was great to have the deputy mayor of Beaconsfield re-open the shop. All of our shops are hugely important to us because they raise the money we need to pay for our nurses and to fund the care for people with life-limiting illnesses.
“We only receive 3% of funding from statutory sources so we rely on our shops to pay for what we offer patients.”
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