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The Barbers' Company

Relief of Suffering

The primary recipient of grants to relieve suffering is Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Care, in Farnham (here).

The relationship between the Worshipful Company of Barbers and the Hospice goes back to its very beginnings in 1979. Sir Edward Tuckwell, Serjeant-Surgeon to The Queen, who was Master of the Company in 1981, was one of the founders of the hospice having seen the need for care for the terminally ill during his first wife’s illness. Since its inception the support given by the Barbers’ Company has helped the Hospice to grow its services and to reach increasing numbers of people requiring help. Currently the Hospice receives a £50K annual grant to support its training programme for local healthcare professionals as part of the national End-of-Life Care Strategy.  This is an important change for the Company as it allows our finite funds to be focussed not just on the relief of suffering resultant from care but it allows us to fund the education and training that delivers that outcome.

A limited number of discretionary grants are also made to deserving causes, particularly those associated with medicine, hairdressing and barbering.