| Description | [The Friends of Broadmoor Hospital is a charitable body founded in 1963, whose main functions are to support patients and the families and friends of patients. They support patients' visitors by running a minibus service between the train station and the hospital and a refreshment room for visitors just outside the hospital. They have also engaged in fundraising activities such as an annual fete, and supported recreational activities for patients, for instance by buying an outdoor swimming pool, and building new changing rooms and storage facilities for the hospital sports field. In 1980 the Friends and the Broadmoor social work department jointly set up a visiting panel, to encourage and train members to visit patients who would not otherwise have had any visitors. The Friends were strongly supported by television personality Sir Jimmy Savile, who helped them with fundraising and recreational activities for patients, and also visited patients.] |