![]() This is an untenable position for any charitable organisation. Marie said the CSC paid all the bills for all the space, adding ‘we even paid our proportion for spreading salt in the car park’.Ī hospice spokeswoman said: “The current arrangement would continue to put significant cost pressure on St Giles Hospice whilst benefiting another charity. St Giles said the rent the CSC paid was only for space it occupied and not shared indoor space, like the reception, toilets, housekeeping etc, something the CSC flatly denied. St Giles Hospice confirmed it is looking to move more of its staff over from its Whittington headquarters in Lichfield to Lindridge Road in Sutton Coldfield (Image: Google) “We expected the costs to rise due to the cost of living situation, but not by this much." But the maximum we have paid in a year for rent and bills at Lindridge Road was £29,000. “Currently we use the rooms four days a week so the cost would be nearly £100,000. So the cost would be £480 a day and if we used it five days a week as we used to - £2,400 a week or nearly £125,000 a year. We use three therapy rooms, a meeting room and two little offices. The 56-year-old continued: “Now we are being offered a flat £80 per room per day, irrespective of the size of the room, to cover rent and bills. Services were then limited in the pandemic, with some over Zoom, but now they were looking to build them back up to five-days-a-week 'Neat' car cannibals strip Peugeot 108 in car park next to Sutton Coldfield convenience storeīefore Covid, the annual costs of the CSC were around £150,000, all funded by charitable donations.Vile women in Sutton Coldfield posing as caring Birmingham City Council workers burgle home.We are now being asked to pay per room per day and it is unaffordable." Read More Related Articles “The new amount we have been asked to pay is not affordable to us. Up until now we have paid a ‘peppercorn rent’ and paid our share of the costs of the building. Marie Moore, vice chair of the Cancer Support Centre trustees, told BirminghamLive: “It’s very disappointing. And it is now urgently seeking new accommodation after its negotiations with St Giles broke down. The CSC currently cares for some 500 cancer sufferers on its books, providing holistic treatments care and support, which run alongside NHS clinical treatment. Read more: Knife-wielding robber threatens convenience store staff member Sutton Coldfield's Cancer Support Centre (CSC) has co-existed with St Giles Hospice at the latter's site in Lindridge Road.īut now the CSC is being forced to leave its home of 11 years after it says St Giles has instigated a ‘huge increase’ in its costs to stay there which could more than quadruple.Īndrew Harkness, CEO of the hospice, said the organisation could not bear cost of living increases alone. A long-standing Sutton Coldfield charity claims it is being 'forced out' of its premises due to a 'huge' hike in its rent and maintenance costs. ![]()
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