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Delicious meals produce generous gifts to FOWH & MS Centre
On Thursday 11th February, at his house, Dean Carr gave £1,000 each to the Friends of Warminster Hospital and the Wessex Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre in Warminster. These gifts came from the money he had made from his ongoing “HOME KITCHEN BA12” meal collection service. Dean was “born and breed” in Warminster and after the Avenue and Kingdown schools, Salisbury Catering College and Bishopstrow House Hotel, in June 1988, he went to London, and worked in Langan’s Brasserie, Brook’s gentlemen’s club, Dauphenes, Palais du Jardine, The Ivy - he finished his 7 years in London as head chef of the @venue in St James’s Street. In September 2002, Dean moved back to Warminster to run & be the Head Chef at the Bath Arms Crockerton. After a stroke in the January 2018, he sadly lost the business in the June and then had a job at Bath golf club running F&B until the pandemic started. Friends and family asked if he would provide meals from his, Ginny & Sofia’s home and, in early April, he started the food group, which besides providing delicious, reasonably priced meals, is raising money for local charities.
Since the pandemic started, the Friends have provided wellness bags at Easter for all the Warminster Hospital nurses and staff following an initiative by Warminster Action Group; baked goodies as morale boosters for the staff at the hospital; a brand-new OM Interactive Ltd motion-activated interactive projector system for use by the older people care team; cooling fans in the summer, which are particularly necessary for staff wearing PPE; a new microwave for hot lunches; and, recently, magnetic white boards and iPad cases. The Friends thank Dean & Ginny for their generous donation, and other donations received from local people, which will go towards its next major project, which will be to assist with the planned relocation of the Longleat Ward to the ground floor, with access to a new garden for patients.
The Wessex Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre, based next to the Fire Station in the heart of Warminster, offers long term ongoing therapies for people with MS and other conditions. As a self-funding charity, the MS Centre is a life line of physical and emotional support to hundreds of people on a weekly basis. Offering physiotherapy and oxygen therapy during lockdown, the MS Centre is currently helping to minimise MS relapses and keeping the members out of busy NHS hospitals. Rosie Eliot, the Centre director said “We are delighted that HOME KITCHEN BA12 has chosen the MS Centre to donate some of their hard earned cash to. We know Dean and Ginny have been working extremely hard throughout the last year and we are grateful to be part of their success”.
