AstraZeneca has donated 16 new laptops to East Cheshire Hospice as part of its long-standing support for the charity.
Members of the company’s IT department visited the Hospice to hand over the devices which greatly assist the charity’s IT upgrade.
Equipping admin and clinical staff with laptops also enables the charity to channel funding into other important areas of end-of-life care.
The laptops are new but were no longer needed by AZ, so the team there knew there was a good home for them at the Hospice.
Conor Stubbs from East Cheshire Hospice (second right) with AZ staff (from left) Guy Camm, Damian Tonge, Sudie Bennett and Simon James.
Sudie Bennett and Damian Tonge, from AZ’s IT department, said: “The team at East Cheshire Hospice do a fantastic job in an environment of acute funding pressure.
“We were delighted to be able to help in the IT space and will continue to offer support where we can.”
Conor Stubbs, the Hospice’s Head of IT, said: “We were absolutely delighted to receive the new hardware and are having discussions to collaborate further, with AZ sharing IT consultancy and training expertise as we embrace technology and data more and more as part of our IT Strategy.”
An AZ donation helped set up the Hospice in 1988 and the pharmaceutical company has continued its support ever since.
Last year, the Hospice received a generous donation of £47,821 from AZ, due to the fundraising efforts of its employees participating in various activities.
AZ match funded that fundraising, resulting in a donation of more than £94,000 for the Hospice and its other nominated charity Silklife Foodbank.