10/08/10….Campaign launched to secure future for Thame Day Centre

THE future of the Thame and District Day Centre is hanging on a thread as the charity launches a public campaign for funds.

For months the centre’s manager and her team have been trying to get answers from its landlord, Community Health Buckinghamshire (formerly Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust), and Oxfordshire Social Services about the security of funding for the centre, following drastic cuts in public spending being implemented by the new Government. Letters and calls to Richard Mills, Director of System Reform for NHS Buckinghamshire, formerly known as Buckinghamshire PCT, have apparently not been responded to.

The Centre was told recently that its rent will be increased from a little over