Rotary Club - Tea Mobile for Hospice

Mike Brown, President Elect of the Rotary Club of Windsor St George, presented a universal mobile phone charger to Senior Staff Nurse, Sharon Penny of The Princess Alice Hospice, Weybridge, on Thursday 26 January. A Rotary Centenary Yorkshire Tea Caddy was converted to become the container.

Mike explains, "My mother passed away in October last year and the care she received in The Princess Alice Hospice during her last days was excellent. The staff were great and knew just how to care for her and to care for us, the family. As any family would, we dropped everything to attend the hospice to be with Mum during her last days. We naturally took our mobile phones as they were with us anyway but, as time passed, our batteries started to run out. The last thing on our minds when we rushed to the hospice was our mobile phone chargers and it was not practical to return home to get them. Of course, we could still use the public phones (and each others phones) to make outgoing calls but it was clear we missed some incoming calls from concerned friends and family who we hadn’t contacted directly in our haste. They were calling our discharged mobile phones.

When we left the hospice we decided to donate a Universal Mains Mobile Phone Charger for other families to use in a similar situation."

So why the Tea Caddy? "I wanted the charger to be available to anyone in the families’ room but appreciate that things get mislaid. The small, simple cardboard box that it arrived in seemed far too flimsy. I wanted something that would be longer lasting, more robust and more obvious. The tea caddy seemed to fit the bill and, as a bonus, would promote Rotary."

Although not intended to raise funds, donations for the use of the charger will go directly to The Princess Alice Hospice.

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