{"id":3232,"date":"2021-04-28T16:40:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T15:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crash.org.uk\/?post_type=projects&p=3232"},"modified":"2021-11-16T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T12:13:06","slug":"crash-helps-halton-haven-hospice-with-vital-building-improvements","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/www.crash.org.uk\/our-work\/crash-helps-halton-haven-hospice-with-vital-building-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"CRASH helps Halton Haven Hospice with essential electric works to keep the hospice operational"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Thanks to the support of our Corporate Patrons and fundraisers, CRASH was able to respond quickly to urgent requests for help at Halton Haven Hospice and award a cash grant for essential electric works. The relocation of electrics means the hospice is no longer in danger of losing power.<\/p>\n

Halton Haven Hospice opened in 1984 to provide inpatient and outpatient specialist palliative care for adults with life-limiting illnesses, including clinical and complimentary therapies, counselling, and bereavement support. Annually it provides free of charge specialist care for approximately 190 inpatients, 150-day hospice users and 460 relatives, friends and carers through family support services.<\/p>\n

CRASH first supported Halton Haven in 2019 with the help of Corporate Patrons Arcadis and Bauder, \u00a0to restore the roof of their Inpatient Unit conservatory, which was leaking and making the room unusable. The conservatory now allows whole families to gather and create memories in all weathers. To read about the roof repair project, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

The need<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In 2020 Halton Haven approached CRASH again with an urgent request for help with their electrical intake to the hospice. The electrics were housed in a single storey, timber framed modular building which was approaching the end of its useful life, with a roof that was leaking into the room with the electrical intake. There was a very real danger that a heavy downpour could lead to significant damage to the electrics and potentially leave the whole site, including the inpatient unit, without power. Repairs to the roof had previously been undertaken but a long-term solution was needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith water ingress to our Day Hospice the electricity supply and its positioning exposed us to a very real danger of losing our power to the whole site.\u00a0 Additionally, our capacity was limited by the functionality of the system and how it was installed 36 years ago.\u201d Ann Hedley, Head of Fundraising at the hospice. \u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The solution<\/strong><\/h2>\n

CRASH channeled the professional expertise of our Corporate Patron Cundall to understand the options available for the electrical intake including relocating or leaving it in situ. It was decided that due to the condition of the timber framed building that the electrics were housed in, and its limited remaining lifespan, that the best option would be to relocate the electrics into the main hospice building.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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