Severn Hospice bids a fond farewell to Norma
After 26 years, a director at one of Shropshire’s best loved charities is standing down.
Norma Ross has held the role of director of Income Generation at Severn Hospice since the mid-1990s and in that time has helped to raise an incredible £150 million for the charity.
But now the proud Scot, who lives in Gnosall, Staffordshire, is stepping down from her role and handing over the baton to the next generation of fundraisers.
Over the years, Norma has become one of the best known – and most respected – faces on the Midland’s charity circuit.
Her proudest moments of her career have been seeing the hospice flourish, grow, and become not only a ward-based organisation but one which reaches out into the community.
“Severn Hospice is now a complex organisation – it’s more than the bedded unit it was when I joined all those years ago,” she said.
And when she leaves, she is not cutting her ties completely – she will continue to act as the key contact to administer gifts left in Wills to the hospice. “I am looking forward to seeing how the hospice rises to the challenges ahead. We are moving into a different era, and it is time for fresh blood and fresh eyes."
