the proceeds of which we hope to take out 35 patients to a park in Derby for an outing and a meal, and to give presents to the hospital and to a local weekly club for ex-patients which the League has helped to

equip. We all

^astures

indeed.

New

Readers of Mental Health might like to J^ar of the work the Ilkeston Central

?Wnsvvomen's Guild has been able to ndertake at Pastures Hospital, Derby. Our organisation

was

founded nearly

^arsago. Two years after its inauguraour Social Studies group toured

s'e?n>

local

pVeral

institutions, including the

Hospital. aasfures invitation to n

Cn

give

One consequence was concerts to patients,

^ears a8?' a League of Friends was at the hospital and I became a

fo rmed

the committee, to represent jibber ofMembers Guild adopted of ParSt?n" lents without friends relatives to visit our

^

j0

or

and went to see them at the hospital ?ut once a month. Today, 14 such lents are visited regularly, the

,

rney

l1&s of a

0ur G

being hospital taking one hour by half an hour by car. This adoption made possible by the co-operation Chapels and Toe H, as well as to the

^rches' Wnsworrien,s

Guild and Sandiacre

the Chairman and the local League of Friends (both T.G. members) contact other gf0 'n "keston, to collect Christmas ents f?r the forgotten patients. In 1962 We over 200; last year more than 150. e held a coffee morning in July, from

Christmas, Se~ac^ retafy ?f br

pre^s ^ent

find this work very rewarding the decade we have under-

During

taken it, we have seen vast improvements at the hospital. Railings and barriers have been taken down, doors have been unlocked, the buildings themselves have been redecorated and remodelled in modern style,

and

a

wonderful garden has been cultivated.

Best of all, many men and women who used to be idle have been given work. Kathleen Shaw CHAIRMAN, ILKESTON CENTRAL TOWNSWOMEN'S GUILD, AND ILKESTON BRANCH OF LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF PASTURES HOSPITAL. 171, APPLEBY CLOSE, ILKESTON, DERBYSHIRE.