The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 No 7363 p215
20 August 2005

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Birdsgrove House forced to close its doors

Birdsgrove House, the country mansion housing the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's rest and recuperation service and addiction treatment centre, is to close with immediate effect (see p237).

The property is owned by the Society’s Benevolent Fund, whose trustees (the 30 members of the Society’s Council) have decided that they can no longer allow it to be a drain on the fund’s resources.

The past five years have seen a deficit totalling £1.8m in the cost of running the house and its services. And a capital investment of at least £500,000 would be needed to upgrade the house to meet the requirements of recent legislation.

The value of the property is estimated at £17m. Its disposal requires the approval of the Charities Commission.

Closure will mean redundancies among the staff.


News feature p220