Friends Voices

Stories of volunteers supporting the health service since 1949

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Sheila Jackson, The Burton Hospitals League of Friends

Burton Hospital has always been there serving the community Sheila lives in, also helping generations of  her family. While working in finance, supporting her immediate, and wider family, Sheila helped out in the community wherever she could.On r...

Story: Sheila Jackson - Staffordshire

Elaine Tinsley, The League of Friends, The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital

An early career in the hospital meant Elaine always felt an affinity to it. On retirement she began volunteering, which turned in to a new career in the finance office. Elaine describes the League of Friends as feeling like a 'family', with the hu...

Story: Elaine Tinsley - Oswestry, Shropshire