The event raised funds for Cancer Research UK and the Woolverstone Wish appeal to build a new, state-of-the-art cancer centre, named the Woolverstone Macmillan Centre, at Ipswich Hospital. Participants danced along to a variety of Michael Jackson hits ...
Fundraisers behind the Woolverstone Macmillan Centre Appeal are now confident the total needed will be reached and so construction has started, with the buildings set to be finished by the spring. It will provide new consultation and examination rooms, ...
Anne Henderson has so far collected almost £20,000 for the Woolverstone Macmillan Centre appeal at Ipswich Hospital. The 64-year-old, from Bredfield, near Woodbridge, learned about Macmillan's Brave the Shave campaign via email, before friends in the ...
Woolverstone – known affectionately as 'Woolvo' by its alumni – was an extraordinary experiment in education. Set up in the early 1950s by London County Council, it was a secondary grammar boarding school in the wilds of Suffolk that took boys in the ...
Ipswich Hospital chief executive, Nick Hulme, said: “We need to raise £3.7m in order to build the Woolverstone Macmillan Centre and transform cancer care for patients at the hospital. “This astonishing start shows we can do it, with the continued ...
Formed in 1993, the Woolverstone project began life as a branch of the Royal Harwich Yacht Club. The brainchild of then commodore Margaret Howard, she was keen to provide the opportunity and facilities for any person, with any disability whatsoever to ...