A46 Newark Bypass dualling scheme team provides over £3,200 in community funding to Beaumond House Hospice Care
Visitors and families to a Newark hospice have been given a new technological helping hand after a donation from a ‘dualling’ team.
The team behind the plans for the A46 Newark Bypass dualling scheme has provided over £3,200 in community funding to Beaumond House Hospice Care to purchase much-needed media equipment.
The charity used the funds to purchase a new television, sound bar, and games console to help staff and volunteers facilitate a number of activities for guests, such as craft demonstration and talks, as well as showing films.
The new technology can also be used for training sessions for staff and volunteers and to entertain visiting families with films, music, and games.
Beaumond House team leader, Sally Briggs-Price, said: “The TV has made so much difference to the day patients, even just to have the wallpaper scenes on gives a homely ambiance.
“We have used it to watch a film after lunch, listened to old music for a sing song, and last week the Holocaust group used it to show their presentation.
“The Nintendo Switch has also gone down really well as it offers a welcome distraction by allowing children to be present and feel included in what is going on.”
The funding came from the A46 project’s social value fund, part of a wider National Highways commitment to ‘give back’ to local communities by providing funding for projects, volunteer time, materials or arranging career-related activities in schools and colleges.
National Highways senior project manager for the A46 Newark Bypass improvement, Phil Boffey, said: “We were so pleased to be able to award Beaumond House this funding to enable them to enhance their media facilities at the Hospice.
“Our community fund has been set up to deliver benefits for local people, the environment and the economy.
“We’ve always built social value into every aspect of our network. From economic prosperity to preserving natural habitats, we know how important it is that we make a positive difference to the communities where we work.”
The A46 Newark Bypass improvement scheme would see the single-carriageway section of the Newark Bypass between Farndon roundabout and Winthorpe dualled, and a flyover created at Cattle Market roundabout.
This will help to create a continuous dual carriageway from Lincoln to Warwick, as well as easing congestion on the outskirts of Newark.
Proposals for the bypass will also see the Winthorpe junction enlarged with traffic lights to connect the new A46 link, a new single lane carriageway between Friendly Farmer and Winthorpe roundabouts providing links to the A17, A1 and Newark, and traffic lights to the Farndon junction to improve flows during peak hours.