Tea Bar

**** UPDATED COVID VISTING INFORMATION****

Cambridge University Hospitals including The Rosie Hospital have reinstated mask use in clinical areas (Rosie Birth Centre, clinics and wards – not main corridors or the cafe/concourse).

We would like to thank everybody who has helped us by buying from or serving at the tea-bar in Clinic 21 of the Rosie since 1985 raising money for the Rosie (and previously the Mill Road) maternity hospital so we could provide facilities and equipment not funded by the NHS.

In the year before lockdown we were only able to partially fill the tea-bar rota due to a shortage of volunteers. We had recently checked how many volunteers would be able to continue to help with the tea-bar after the pandemic and only 2 felt they could continue helping. Other volunteers had health problems and other commitments.

We hope that the Rosie will be able to find a good new use for the tea bar and wish Clinic 21 well.

Once again thank you to all who have supported us.

Before the pandemic the Tea Bar in Clinic 21 was open four and a half days a week, from Monday to Thursday and Friday morning in the Outpatient Clinic and was run by the Friends.

We were unable to run our Friends of the Rosie tea bar in Clinic 21 due to Covid19, all the existing stock was either given to the local Queen Edith foodbank or to the hard-working nursing and security staff in the Rosie Hospital. Both are extremely grateful for our donations. All the money from the charity box in the tea bar has now been banked, totalling £64.51.

The Tea Bar is very small.

The tea bar sold tea, coffee, cold drinks, various sweet and savoury snacks, and hand-knitted baby clothes to patients and staff in the Rosie Outpatients.

The Tea Bar was usually open 9am-5pm Monday to Thursday and Friday mornings. Volunteers usually worked 9-1pm and 1-5pm but  flexiblility was required if the clinic was very busy or even quiet.

Once again thank you to all who have supported us.