Edwina Currie Supports New Northern Retirement Village Concept

Former government minister Edwina Currie gave her support to the expansion of a North West care home into a deluxe new style retirement village

Liverpool s Stapely Jewish Care Home is creating a new concept for the senior living community with North West England’s first fullyfledged retirement village based on US Australian and continental models

This was an emotional visit for Liverpool born and bred Ms Currie whose her mother was a long-term supporter of Stapely Care during her lifetime

Ms Currie toured the Stapely site and the phase-one conversion of Fernlea House a grand Edwardian villa once home of the Crawford s biscuit family into 17 apartment suites for sale or rent to people aged 55 years plus

The creation of this new style retirement village met with her highly enthusiastic approval, and she pledged her future support as she was guided around the construction site by Philip Ettinger Stapely Care Trustee

Ms Currie recalls: “My late mother was a longstanding supporter of Stapely Care and regularly visited