Biggart Hospital makeover

Community activities have always been a core feature for us Prestwick Rotarians, so we were more than chuffed to get together with Biggart Hospital staff to do a much-needed makeover of their front entrances and MacMillan Ward gardens.

Our innovative ideas to work in partnership with local colleagues and voluntary sectors have paid dividends for everyone involved, all to ensure that our hospital, and especially our staff and in-patients, remain a vital and essential part of the local community, says Charge Nurse Jim Mack.

This now vibrant health and social hub has seen many changes since it was originally established by Glaswegian Robert Biggart and his wife, for sick kids, circa 1905.

Headed up by Prestwick Rotarian Kate Sweeney, responsible for Vocational and Environmental issues, 6 keen Rotarian volunteers armed with garden tools, plants, and flowers restyled the garden areas in need of much TLC, resulting in a colourful display of bedding, biennials, beautiful hanging baskets and a few over exercised muscles!

Jim said, “The collaboration with Prestwick Rotary has been a delight to us all at the Biggart. The hanging baskets are a focal talking point for all visitors to the site, and the work getting done on my own ward’s garden will be of benefit to all.”

This venture can be seen as a super example of how the Rotary Club of Prestwick and Biggart Hospital, a long standing and evolving community platform,  get together to not only enhance the local “gardenscapes”, but hopefully have the visitors and bees buzzing too!

Picture shows new President Lorraine McEvoy, Charge Nurse Jim Mack and Rotarian Kate Sweeney. 

Anyone interested in joining Prestwick Rotary Club should contact us via our new secretary Gregor Purdie on purdiegregor@gmail.com