Stunning new gardens unveiled after lots of hard work

FOUR acres of stunning new gardens at Compton Hospice have been unveiled after a £150,000 cash boost.

Staff and supporters from the Wolverhampton hospice gathered to see former trustee Janet Wilson-Bett join chief executive Ron Middleton declare the gardens open.

The Department of Health allocated £72,000 and a further £80,000 has been pledged to support the development and maintenance of the gardens in private donations in remembrance of people cared for at the hospice.

Mr Middleton said that a public opening of the gardens will take place next spring, when the gardens will be covered in a riot of colour. He said that the hospice would be ‘eternally grateful’ to the Department of Health, as well as the private benefactors who had made the work possible, and the national Help the Hospices organisation who had overseen the administration of the Government grant.