Hospice ambassador Lee Boardman visits new build site
Lee has been following along the new St Ann's Hospice journey since the very beginning
St Ann’s Hospice ambassador, Lee Boardman visited the new hospice site in Heald Green for an update on the construction progress.
He was truly amazed by the incredible progress, especially remembering the overgrown land we started with.
Lee deeply understands the vital care St Ann’s provides. Having experienced it firsthand with his sister, Suzy, who died at the Heald Green hospice.
He knows just how crucial the new, purpose-built hospice will be. It will make a profound positive impact, helping patients and their loved ones navigate some of the most challenging periods of their lives.
“I’m just so shocked...” Lee said following his visit to the new hospice. “It was just overgrown sort of land. It was full of spiders, I remember the first day coming to put the spade in the ground and having to avoid like a million spider webs and it was so uneven under foot, just falling all over the place and it was really hard to envision what it would be like even when the build started.
I’m just so taken with the plastering that’s been done in there, it’s all so bespoke. It’s incredible compared to the old building. When I think about the generations that have gone through that [building] and the thousands of people that St Ann’s has helped, including my own family, that building has got a very special place in people’s hearts but it’s falling down. Lee Boardman, St Ann's Hospice Ambassador
See what Lee has to say in the video, below.
“So what St Ann’s needed was this. I mean this will be here for the next few hundred years by the look of it and all I can think of is my experience coming to St Ann’s Hospice and the families in the future that will all benefit from what is just the most unbelievable hospice building that I’ve ever seen in my life,” he added.