# Ex Liverpool boss makes £100,000 donation

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/05/01/ex-liverpool-boss-makes-100000-donation/
- Published: 2016-05-01T09:23:42+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**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.

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He told the [Irish News](http://www.irishnews.com) 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](http://www.nihospice.org/) 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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