29/11/2011: Mr Gosling donates £300 to PHLF
04/01/2011: Zhu Guang Restaurant Holds Charity Buffet for PHLF
03/01/2011: Tombola Raises £341.34 for PHLF
14/08/2010: £10,000 Carbon Fibre Operating Table Extension Helps to Save Legs at Pilgrim Hospital
13/08/2010: Latest News
29/11/2011
For the help and benefit that Mr M H Gosling has received from the Pilgrim Hospital with respect to his heart problems, on his birthday he opted to collect monies rather than to have presents and to donate the money to the Pilgrim Heart and Lung Fund. In the picture above Mr Gosling is seen presenting a cheque for £300 to the President of the Appeal, Dr Cyril Nyman, and to the Secretary of the Appeal, Mrs Perry Hayes. The monies through the Appeal will be used in time to assist the United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust to provide a cardiac catheter laboratory at Pilgrim Hospital.
04/01/2011
On 25 June 2010 the proprietor, Wei Xian Peng, held a charity buffet evening at his Zhu Guang Restaurant, West Street, Boston, for the benefit of the Pilgrim Heart & Lung Fund.
This evening event was very well supported, guests enjoyed a superb buffet in lovely surroundings and a great time was had by all. Very many thanks to Wei Xian and his wife for their help and generosity.
Wei Xian is shown here presenting a cheque for the £750 to Pilgrim Heart & Lung Fund Chairman Arthur Whitehead.
03/01/2011
Over two days in November 2010 Pilgrim Heart & Lung Fund held a fund raising Tombola at the Pilgrim Hospital that raised £341.34.
Thanks to all who manned the stall and to those who donated prizes. They include:
14/08/2010
Handing over this piece of equipment that is crucial to saving legs, Dr C R Nyman, President of the Pilgrim Heart and Lung Fund said "We are glad to fund this piece of equipment that has become important in the continuing treatment of Vascular disease at Pilgrim Hospital. This will avoid our patients having to travel long distances to get this State-of-the-Art treatment."
Mr N Arya, Consultant in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery said "We are really grateful on the behalf of our patients and staff for this timely donation. It has been very important in continuing this important service at Pilgrim Hospital after the service was disrupted due to breakdown of critical equipment."
Vascular disease causes poor circulation to the limbs and can lead to amputations and sometimes loss of life. Many of the patients suffering from this disease are quite ill and need treatment under local anaesthetic to improve the circulation. Many times this requires the blood flow to the limbs to be restored by a procedure called an angioplasty that entails fine balloon tipped tubes to be passed into the blood vessels and the balloon opened in the blocked portion of the vessel. This is done under x-ray guidance and the normal operating table is unsuitable as it has metal parts that impede the passage of x-rays. The donated Carbon Fibre table extension is completely metal-free and allows this procedure to be carried out in normal operating theatres.
Mr Arya further said "We want to extend this minimally invasive treatment to other vascular diseases and I believe that this is important as it avoids major open operations that are a lot more risky to our patients than this endovascular treatment. Also as these procedures are done in the Operating Theatre, we can safely combine it with open surgery if indicated."
Left to right Dr C R Nyman and PHLF Committee members, Mr J Mohan and Mr N Arya with their Team.
13/08/2010
The sponsored cycle ride around part of Lincolnshire took place on Saturday, 8 May 2010, leaving Pilgrim Hospital in Boston at 8.30am. We had a team of eleven cyclists. The plan for each participant was for them to cycle for one hour and prizes would be awarded to the cyclist who covered the greatest distance in that hour, there would also be a prize given to the cyclist who raised the most sponsorship money during the event. The Mayor of Boston started the event at 8.30am and the event finished at 9.30pm later that day. It was a horrendous day weather-wise, it rained for most of the cycle period and we faced heavy winds which appeared to change in different directions as the event proceeded through the day.
From Boston the cyclists travelled on to Skegness, Huttoft, then further afield to Saltfleet, North Somercotes, Utterby, Louth, Market Rasen and then on to Gainsborough, they then turned south heading towards Lincoln and then on to Newark, from Newark, again moving south, but on this occasion towards the east, headed towards Sleaford, then to Grantham, back via Swineshead and into Boston.
The cycle period was a total of eleven hours and the distance cycled all told was 178 miles.
The team did a very, very good job and worked very hard against great difficulties weather-wise but they surmounted the problem without any complaints.
Sponsorship-wise they did very well, although all the monies have not been received at this point, we have now accumulated nearly £3,000 which will be used by the Pilgrim Heart & Lung Fund for further equipment and to maintain services for people suffering from heart and lung disease.
We are still debating whether we should do the event again the following year or to change direction a fraction with it, we will keep you updated.
The PHLF Spring Ball went exceedingly well, it took place at the County Club in Boston on 19 March 2010. We had a total of approximately 80 guests and the music was supplied by "Something for the Weekend". Everybody appeared to have a very good time. There was a raffle during the course of the evening and the raffle raised a little over £800 which will be used for the Pilgrim Heart & Lung Fund for supporting patients suffering from heart and lung disease. We would hope to have the Ball take place again in 2011.
The Wheelbarrow Push in October 2009 was a resurrection of this event which used to take place the best part of 20 years ago. The idea of the event is for teams to have a weighted wheelbarrow to push around the town of Boston to a set number of public houses, at each public house one of the team was to have a drink of ale. There were seven public houses en route and these were the Indian Queen, The Still, Prospect, Stump and Candle, The White Hart, Kings Head and Goodbarn's Yard. A number of those public houses also donated amounts of money for the function.
This event was organised by Boston Rotary Club by Mr Tony Elmer with help and assistance from a number of other fellow Rotarians. The event was a great success and raised approximately £1,400 which was donated by Boston Rotary Club to the Pilgrim Heart & Lung Fund.
It is an event which will take place now on a regular annual basis and hopefully will be as successful as this year's event.
