CHOLMONDELEY HOME

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28939, 6 July 1959, Page 9

CHOLMONDELEY HOME

Drive For Increased Public Support

Because of a recurring yearly deficit of about £2OOO between children’s boarding receipts and the cost of wages and food, the Cholmondeley Memorial Children’s Home will make a drive for greater public recognition.

The drive will be made in two to three months’ time, it was decided at a meeting of the committee.

The home, which over the years had looked after sick children or children whose parents were unable to look after them, was averaging 14 children in the home when it was possible to take 26, said the chairman (Mr C. L. Paterson). “The actual cost of each child should be £6 a week but, with only 14 children in the home, it is about £B.”

The charge for the board of children is £3 a week and the home receives a Government subsidy of 10s for each child.

Mr Paterson said there was a lack of public awareness about the objects and the work of the home. “I know of three cases where the existence of the home was heard only by chance,” said the secretary (Mrs E. Blackburne). Outlining the costs of operating the home, Mr Paterson said that in 1925 there was a deficit of £420 between the board receipts and the cost of wages and food. In 1938 this deficit was £650 and by 1945 it had reached £ll4O. This year it would be about £2OOO. A man could be employed on commission to call on the public for subscriptions to the home, said Mr R. Bloxham. “The Navy League in Canterbury "did that and had a satisfactory result.” It was decided that suggestions of raising ftmds by subscription lists and other methods be considtered at a later meeting. The meeting- passed a motion that the home was necessary to meet the needs of a certain section of the community and another motion that a drive be made for “greater public recognition in the form of an increased public subscription list”