THE Vale Community Hospital will soon celebrate its third year of running with support from The League of Friends.

The hospital based at Littlecombe, between Dursley and Cam, will have opened three years ago in December after a £10 million building project.

It contains 20 individual en-suite rooms for medical care and rehabilitation and provides diagnostic services and a medical assessment centre providing treatment for minor injuries.

The League of Friends support the hospital by raising funds, enhancing facilities and helping with the day to day running of it.

The charity has purchased numerous appliances and utensils for the hospital since 2012, including exercise bikes, pressure relieving cushions, a projector and perch stools.

In 2014 the charity provided a bladder scanner, a refrigerator, furniture, a stand aid, newspapers and more.

Secretary and committee member Valerie Watts said: “The League of Friends started up just a few months before the hospital. It’s been three years since it opened and we want people to see what has been provided by us.

“We have raised a lot of money and provided a mix of things, from cushions right up to bladder scanners, costing £20 to thousands of pounds. We help provide things not easily available on the NHS.”

The League of Friends also named a ward ‘Peak View’ in the hospital in June this year after taking feedback and suggestions from the public. The charity aims to support the wellbeing of hospital patients and also build community links.

Miss Watts added: “We have held lots of fundraising events over the three years, like quiz nights and fashion shows and at the moment we have our Christmas shop in the hospital raising money too.

“It really is a lovely hospital, the staff are brilliant and it’s doing really well.”