Pusey House

• Structure, Governance and Management

• The charity is constituted as a Trust and governed by a Trust Deed, dated 12th Oct 1986. It is managed by a Board of Trustees, appointment to which is by resolution of the board members. The Board meets regularly to determine overall policy and a smaller group of managing trustees which may give guidance on routine affairs. The Trustees delegate the day to day responsibility for the operation of the hospice and its main services to the Chief Executive, who is supported by Clinical Nurse Managers, an Accounts Controller, and assisted by many dedicated staff, professional volunteers and supporters.
  
  The South Bucks Hospice was originally formed in Dec 1985 to raise funds for a hospice for the South Bucks area, and started from the hardest position of all with zero funding. In the intervening years a hardy group of Trustees, volunteers and supporters started the fundraising activities and by 1989 had raised sufficient funds to start a Home-care nursing team under the direction of the local NHS service and was called the ‘Edie Pusey Nurses’ – so named after our founder who had died of a cancer related illness in the same year. The service ran for four years and looked after cancer patients and o ther terminally related illnesses on a 24hr basis. This provided a much-needed service in the area at the time, as well as allowing our organisation to become more recognised in the community. By 1992, and mainly through pure fundraising activities at grass roots level, the Trust had accumulated sufficient funding to purchase the present hospice location, then under private domestic ownership. We finally were given permission to convert the building into a Hospice Day Care Centre by the then Government Planning Ombudsman over local objections. The hospice opened in April 1994 and had been open ever since, five days/wk.