Cranleigh Heritage Trust, Cranleigh Village Hospital, Napper Cottage, Cranleigh, Guildford,

Where is Napper Cottage Guildford?

Cranleigh Heritage Trust was formed to save the 15th century cottage at Cranleigh Village Hospital, no longer used and falling into disrepair.   

The team named it Napper Cottage to help chat about it and because the Reverend Sapte and Doctor Surgeon Mr Albert Napper adapted the cottage to be a hospital, in 1859. 

When you look at the National Lottery Heritage Fund awards pages for September 2023 you will see amazing projects across the United Kingdom.

Click here for their report. They have used the term Napper Cottage Guildford in this report.

The team will try to get this corrected!

The Lottery system means that Cranleigh Heritage Trust team must work with them and hired professionals to bring the cottage to a state where repairing it will bring long term benefits to Cranleigh Village High Street and community.  The team must prepare for the final Heritage Fund Grant application before any building work can begin. That panel will not know how much money they have or how many worthy causes have applied until the month they sit.

They need experts in several fields.  Please click here to go to the new website for Cranleigh Heritage Trust.

Please also go to the Facebook page and like and comment – this will show you know and care about this project.

OUTCOMES POSSIBLE

Lovely intimate spaces with character, with toilets and kitchenette. 

For hire by small educational groups

For uses by health and wellbeing services.

For visits to read, view, hear about and learn about the heritage of the building, Cranleigh and its surroundings.

It was the first Cottage or Village Hospital in England. Learn how the movement spread across England and how the donations Cranleigh cottage hospital received meant people who were very ill or injured but too poor to pay the Doctor’s fees were provided with care for free. This was the start of the spread of the ideas that led to the National Health Service.

For tourists and locals to find out about the area, and all the wonderful amenities and services on offer in and around Cranleigh.

 

 

 

Brilliant News! Napper Cottage – National Lottery Heritage Fund has approved our application – the 2nd of 3 required.

Brilliant News! Napper Cottage – National Lottery Heritage Fund has approved our application – the 2nd of 3 required.

Cranleigh Village Hospital’s Heritage Cottage – ‘Napper Cottage’  – a new future for the first cottage hospital in England.

Cranleigh Heritage Trust has been awarded development phase funding and support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund with a £58,000 grant to continue the work needed to progress the project. The money will be used, with the Heritage fund’s guidance, to support the detailed preparation required to apply for the final bid.  You go visit the new web site here that Cranleigh Heritage Trust has set up.

The final bid, if lucky enough to succeed, with be for 90% of the full funding, which will be used to restore the building and make it usable for the community in a multitude of ways.  The National Lottery Heritage fund have listed the project on their website here (and called it Napper Cottage Guildford).

The Team’s work and the amazing public support to save the cottage started in December 2020. It is the Grade II listed Cottage at Cranleigh Village Hospital which is acknowledged as the first cottage hospital of its type in England and the inspiration for the National Health Service. The team have named the cottage Napper Cottage, to separate it from the day hospital.

The project aims to first save the Grade II listed cottage and then bring it into uses as a Community Hub and Heritage Centre.

This project is being made possible by National Lottery players, THANK YOU!

Trevor Dale   Chair of the Cranleigh Heritage Trust said:  

“All the hard work of the volunteer team and support from local community bodies and individuals has come to fruition. We are delighted to have been awarded this grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, made possible thanks to National Lottery players. We now have a year of seriously hard work to convince the Heritage Fund to support the project to completion. Cranleigh residents and leaders have shown their enthusiasm and support for the outcomes possible, and when the building works commence, we can see this lovely building become a vibrant part of the High Street again.”

 

Have your say – about CVHT

MEETING TONIGHT-  7PM CRANLEIGH PARISH COUNCIL OFFICE extra full council meeting 

Dear supporters,

As you know, Cranleigh Society speaks up for Cranleigh residents when there is something to be concerned about. In particular when green fields are under threat.

CVHT is a charity that was formed in good faith to save our beds in Cranleigh hospital over 20 years ago.

The original plan was simply to save Cranleigh Village Hospital beds from closure.  The financial argument was excellent and put forward by Cranleigh GPs.  Step up/step down beds in local small hospitals cost less than in large acute hospitals. GPs and nurses used to care for the patients and were in contact with consultants at RSCH etc.

Once it became apparent that the beds alone could not be saved, because of NHS policy changes, the community gave money for the hospital building, and more money in bequests has been donated.  The money was firstly for the building – to buy it from the NHS so they could use the money to pay for staffing to keep the beds open.  We were told they valued the hospital site at £1million.

70 CVHT volunteers worked to bring this story to life and get the job done – save the beds.  However, it didn’t work at all.  The NHS policy changed several times. They wanted community beds, then they didn’t, then they did again and finally decided that they did not and closed the beds in Cranleigh and focused on Milford Hospital.

The revised plan was to acquire land and build a new hospital AND health centre, funded by mortgages that the GPs would help with.

The field behind Marks and Spencers – known as the Paddock – was owned by Cranleigh Parish Council and had fallen into disrepair as a sports field.  The person who owned the land on the other side of Knowle Lane suggested the Paddock could be used to build a new medical centre and hospital and that some of his land could be used to make better sports facilities.  This was legally agreed.  The sports provision has been made and is used successfully.

This got planning permission and support from the community, but then it was changed when the financial burden on the GPs became untenable and they obtained a government grant to quickly build a new medical centre only, the one we have today.

This meant the finances for a new hospital alone, without the GPs, was unviable and the alternative plan was devised –  to build a care home with hospital grade beds, along with accommodation for care workers. This, however, involved partnering with a care home business to get sufficient finance – planning permission was turned down and the community felt let down all round.

Most of the money donated and raised at the shop was used in pursuit of these ideas, professional fees cost a lot of money.

Now you can understand that CVHT state that they want to find a way to get income from the Paddock to give back to the community for health purposes. The Parish council may agree. Do let your elected representatives – Parish and Borough councillors –  know your opinions.  

Meeting of Parish Councillors tonight – you can attend and make a statement when invited to. You can write in with your views.  You can wait for the survey to be officially published.  

THE FOLLOWING IS THE FIRST DRAFT THAT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED – it is not the actual survey

Your Opinion Counts: Help Us Reimagine The Knowle Lane Site!

 Dear Cranfold Resident,

The Cranleigh Village Health Trust (CVHT) needs your help! We are considering the future use of our land in Knowle Lane (known locally as ‘The Paddock’) and would like your views.

Originally, we planned to develop the field into a health facility. However, our proposal was rejected. Now, we are exploring other uses, but any changes must meet certain criteria.

We would need approval from Waverley Borough Council Planning Department, and support from Cranleigh Parish Council, with whom we are sharing this survey. Also, a third-party developer would be required to help develop the site.

The land is a potentially valuable asset, and its development could raise a significant amount of money to fund healthcare and wellbeing services in the village.

Any proposal must be in accordance with our charitable objectives, which mean that the land can only be used or sold for “the protection of public health in Cranleigh and the surrounding areas”. Proceeds from a sale would fund local healthcare and wellbeing provision.

Please share your preferences and ideas with us for its future use.

Possible Options:

 Following discussions with Cranleigh Parish Council, we would welcome your views on other possible uses of the land.

-Selling the field for commercial development.

-Selling for developing a community facility possibly connected to a new leisure centre.

-Selling for developing affordable housing, potentially for healthcare workers.

We would welcome your thoughts on other suggestions that would be consistent with the criteria set out in this letter.

Share your thoughts by:

 -Completing our online survey at www.cvhtsurvey.co.uk

-Sending an email to response@cvhtsurvey.co.uk

-Mailing your response to [PO Box, TBCJ Please respond by 30th September 2023

Your responses will be discussed with local stakeholders to guide our next steps. We appreciate your help.

Cranleigh Village Health Trust Company No: 04253074

Registered charity number: 1089861

Registered address: Bourne House, Queen Street, Gomshall, GUS 9LY

Cranleigh Village HEALTH TRUST

Notice of Extraordinary meeting of Cranleigh Parish Council 7pm 26 July Council Chamber

Notice of Extraordinary meeting of Cranleigh Parish Council 7pm 26 July Council Chamber

NOTICE OF AN EXTRAORDINARY MEETING OF THE PARISH COUNCIL
Councillors are respectfully summoned to attend an extraordinary meeting of the Parish Council to be held
at 7.00pm on Wednesday 26 July 2023 at the Council Chamber.

You can read the agenda and additional documents here 

AGENDA FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY PARISH COUNCIL MEETING
1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE.
Recommendation:
• To receive apologies and reasons for absence.
2. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST
Recommendation:
• To receive any declarations of interest from Members in respect of any item to be
considered at the meeting and notification of any changes to Members’ Interests.
3. PUBLIC SESSION
Recommendation:
• To note any comments from parishioners.
4. CRANLEIGH VILLAGE HEALTH TRUST SURVEY
To review a draft survey and accompanying letter to be issued by CVHT
(This item may be held in private and confidential session – reason: commercial in confidence)
Recommendation:
• To discuss the CVHT survey and accompanying letter.
5. SCC SPEED LIMIT REDUCTION CONSULTATION
Closing date: 04 August 2023
Recommendation:
• To submit a response
6. DATE OF NEXT MEETING:
Thursday 21 September 2023.

Thank you all NHS staff – 75 years of giving their best for all of us

Thank you all NHS staff – 75 years of giving their best for all of us

NHS services started officially on July 5th 1948 – today, 75 years on, we are able to access amazing health care.. 

‘The designers of the NHS did not start with a clean sheet of paper. The service was a rationalisation of what existed, conditioned by a need to cajole rather than coerce somewhat reactionary interest groups. Some countries, such as New Zealand and Sweden, had forms of health service but they were not used as models; insularity of outlook prevented that. On the basis of wartime experience it was the hospital service that was most in need of reorganisation. Hospitals were in a muddle and financially at the end of their tether. There were prestigious voluntary hospitals, municipal hospitals displaying the entire spectrum of standards and entrepreneurial cottage hospitals in which local doctors could resurrect dormant surgical skills. In 1948 it had been little more than a decade since the first sulphonamide gave doctors a powerful weapon against streptococcal, meningococcal and gonococcal infections. The next ten years saw dramatic improvements in treatment greatly accelerated by research and development carried out by the medical equipment and pharmaceutical industries. …..’

This quote is from Nuffield Trust – click here to read on…..

…the cottage hospital staffed by GPs, often with consultants on call, and some with major surgery (including gynaecology) undertaken by GPs. These had often been built in the nineteenth century to provide essential care to otherwise inaccessible country populations, and more opened after the first world war as small memorial hospitals. The matron might combine the functions of ward sister, theatre sister, midwife, radiographer, almoner, resident medical officer and even cook. 

Cranleigh’s St Nicolas Church owned and used the 15th century cottage opposite the church.  The minutes of a ‘Vestry meeting’ in 1859 show that after much discussion led by the Rector – Reverend Sapte – it was decided that the cottage would become a village cottage hospital, with rules all agreed.  The local Doctor Surgeon & Apothecary Mr Napper would use the cottage to benefit locals.

Special Heritage Social Friday 28th April from 2 till 7pm Band Room

Special Heritage Social Friday 28th April from 2 till 7pm Band Room

Hello, Do you have special memories of Cranleigh, especially the cottage hospital?

Have you ever been into the old cottage itself?  Or do you know someone who has?  What used to happen in there?

We would like to hear your memories as soon as you can?  Some people with wonderful stories to tell are no longer with us, let’s share while we can.

We have set up to make people welcome and to chat about their memories, and to be videoed too if that’s ok?

That way your memories will become a library of great importance to others living and enjoying the area and its heritage.

Please get in touch to arrange how to get their, and a time to suit you, or just come along. Or we can arrange to visit you on another day if that is better.

contact details – Sue and Trevor – 01483 272987

We look forward to a fun afternoon with tea and cakes, chatter and memories.

best regards

The Team