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It's goodbye to Jim and Denys
Caring chairman Jim Gardner and treasurer Denys Briggs have each devoted 15 years to helping St Benedict's Hospice.
Now they are starting a well-earned retirement from the charity.
St Benedict's, in Newcastle Road, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, provides hospice care to the people of Sunderland and surrounding areas.
Jim, former chief executive of Sunderland and Tyne and Wear County Councils, has been the only chairman of St Benedict's since the trust was founded in 1993. Denys has been treasurer for a similar length of time.
Jim said: "For 15 years, with the superb support of Sunderland communities, we have been able to help provide palliative care services based on the hospice at the highest standard.
"We leave it with the day care centre, lymphodema clinic and refurbished hospice as illustrations that we have the best equipped and best-staffed hospice in the north with a healthy financial base.
"I am sure that the progress we have made over the years will continue with the unstinting recognition and public support we have always enjoyed."
Jim, also a former chairman of Sunderland Health Authority, will be succeeded as chairman of St Benedict's by businessman Derek Moss.
Denys has handed over the post of treasurer to Alan Forster.
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