As you are aware The Primrose Foundation have supported the breast care service for over 25 years by funding equipment, research and education, staff development and additional resources and services that make a patient’s experience more comfortable.

Our latest project was to create a warm and comforting area for patients to use, if they required it. The idea to create a quiet space came from a group of local ladies who have all received treatment at The Primrose Breast care centre and wanted to give something back to the service- Over a two-year period these incredible ladies held two charity balls in aid of the Primrose Foundation and raised an incredible £23,000.

The room was specifically designed by one of our Trustees, Mrs Shelley Coleman, pictured left. Shelley said;

I was so pleased to be asked to help design the new quiet room, having been heavily involved with the Dare to Bare ball from the start it felt a privilege to help transform this room.

The room will to be used for a variety of quiet and thoughtful times, getting bad news, sitting prior to surgery, time to question and process difficult information as well time to sit in a comfortable setting.

I wanted it to be slightly feminine without that showroom look therefore the furniture is a little mix and match with lots of green plants, coupled with the heather colours creates warmth and freshness.

On the coffee table you will find notebooks and pens so you can jot down questions, there will be magazines and some tiny thought provoking books to skip through along with various coffees, teas or hot chocolates to drink while you get your thoughts together.

On the wall you will see a large framed photo of the ladies that made this room possible. These incredible women have gone through their own traumas, dealt with it and managed to create a force together that moved people enough to warrant raising over 20k. They are the colours and the warmth of this room and it is their very essence that shines out of the picture.

After months of hard work and the help of various different local companies the Primrose quiet room was officially opened on Saturday 8th August by one of the members of this inspiration group, Mrs Joan Camp.

Collectively the group said; We all feel really passionate about having a quiet area where patients can go following a diagnoses, somewhere peaceful, tranquil and relaxing where they can digest what they have been told. It is somewhere they can sit with their family or friends. We all think this will make big difference to the start of their journey, somewhere they can feel at ease.