The widely-used non-profit making club for hospital staff, family and associate members has been told by hospital officials that if it cannot confirm the money by the end of March, it will have to close.

Opened in the 1960s, the club at the Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Gobowen, is home to sports clubs who now face losing their base because the club does not have the money to continue.
June Middleton, Chairman of the Club's committee, contacted the Advertizer to help them make a last ditch plea to save the endangered club.

She said: "They want to know by the end of the month if we have the money, it's as simple as that.

"We're a non-profit group and we simply do not have the money.

"It's such as shame because it is used by a lot of people, it's picking up again, but we just do not have the money.

"They could have at least given us six months grace.

"If they had come to us a year or a year and a half ago we could have done something about it," she added.

She said the club supports the Derwen College, Mencap Oswestry and spinal surgery rehabilitation patients as well as the sports clubs.

The club is frequently booked for parties and other events and June says that three out of four Saturdays each month, the club is booked.

In the 1960s the committee were offered a piece of land to build on but then when wards started emptying, they were offered the Menzies Ward, which would go on to become the social club.

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