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Dear Members

It is with regret that I have to inform you that Colin Pullan MBE, our chairman
emeritus for nearly 30 years, passed away at the Leeds General Infirmary on 7th
April. It is a time of great sadness, I know many of you will have fond memories of
Colin and we will miss him tremendously. Our thoughts are with his family at this
difficult time. We will provide a tribute to Colin in our July newsletter.

Welcome to spring, its lovely to see daffodils some alignment between the two. Having
in flower and despite the storms earlier this been on the roof garden the other week
year we are now seeing some sunshine (unfortunately in the rain!) we noted that
and brighter days. It makes us think about it overlooks the site of the new hospitals.
spending more time outside and this links As well as providing the ability for patients
to our roof garden and providing an outside and staff to sit outside, the roof garden,
space to take advantage of the better once reopened, will allow a great viewing
weather. We recognise how this helps with platform for the new hospitals and to see
our mental health and well being which is the progress being made over the coming
so important for everyone. years.
To keep you all up to date we have had a As always this work would not be possible
number of meetings with architects and without the support of our members so
landscape gardeners to progress our plan thank you very much for your contributions.
to refurbish the roof garden. The garden Best wishes and please continue to be as
is currently not in use and we know how safe as you can.
much our staff and patients appreciate this
so we are keen to start the work so we can Best Wishes
hopefully use this space by the summer
months.
The meetings have been helpful and we
are working with the LGI gardening team
as well as the architects working on the Gina McGawley
new hospitals being built so there is Chairman

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