We are very fortunate and privileged to have the financial support of the Friends of Watership Down Health (FOWDH). FOWDH has developed from the previous Friends of Oakley and Overton Surgeries and is a Registered Charity. The FOWDH Trustees Committee includes representative patients, one of our doctors and some other staff of the practice.
Registered charity number 1099657 of The Surgery, Station Road, Overton, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG25 3DU.
Phone
01256 770212
Since 2003 the finance provided by the Charity has funded patient services and additional medical equipment that would not ordinarily be provided by the NHS, for example the Blood Pressure monitors in all three surgery waiting rooms.
A summary of the Charity’s past financial support and of the latest completed year is available on request by contacting us through our website.
Objective
The charity’s objective is to use donated funds to relieve suffering by the purchase and maintenance of medical and other equipment, and the provision of services for the general good of patients of the Oakley and Overton Surgeries, Hampshire, not readily provided by the Health Authority or by other statutory funds.
The Trustees, who can be contacted via the surgeries are:
- Ken Usher, Honorary Chairman and Patient, Oakley
- Paul Trotman, Honorary Treasurer and Patient, Overton
- Sue Carter, Honorary Secretary and Patient, Overton
This is a local charity and the funds come from gifts made to the practice, bequests, gifts in memory of relatives or friends and gifts of thanks from patients.
Donations may be made payable to Friends of Oakley and Overton Surgeries and sent to either surgery, marked for the attention of the treasurer.
Current committee members
- Chairman: Kenneth Usher
- Secretary: Mrs Susan Carter
- Treasurer: Paul Trotman
- Dr Nicola Decker
- Mrs Susan Berry
- Mrs Jane Timberlake
- Mrs Margot Poynter
- Mrs Conchita Collins
For more information on our patient donations we have given to charity, please see Friends and Family of Watership Down Health Charity (PDF).