Ex Liverpool boss makes £100,000 donation
Howard Lake | 1 May 2016 | News
Former Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has made a gift of £100,000 to NI Hospice, in tribute to his mother’s charity work.
Rogers, from County Antrim, donated the sale of his mother’s home to the hospice which is in the final stages of a major fundraising drive to raise money for a new hospice building in Belfast.
The money donated will be used for a nurse call system in the new £13 million hospice. Mr Rodgers last month agreed to become an ambassador for the hospice.
He told the Irish News that the gift was to recognise the charity work of his late mother and the care given to his father before his death from cancer.
“My mother was a big charity worker, she did a lot for Trocaire,” Rodgers told the publication.
He added:
“I just felt it was an opportunity to do something in my mum’s memory. She was spent her life trying to help others, trying to raise money to help others”.
Siofra Healy from the NI Hospice said they were just weeks away from opening the new facility and were in the last stages of raising money to fit out the 18 rooms in the Hospice.
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