COMMUNITY CENTRE
Association
& Charity
815 Chemin
des Gourettes 06370
MOUANS SARTOUX
Tel/Fax : 04 93 47 94 20
E-mail: admin@sunny-bank.org
Web-site: www.sunny-bank.org
Sunny Bank Association and Charity is
the current name of the body which founded the Sunny Bank British Hospital
in Cannes in 1892, inaugurated by HRH The Prince of Wales in 1897. In 1997, after a century of service to residents
and visitors alike, (remaining open during the Nazi occupation in WW2),
the hospital was closed. The site
was sold and the money used to purchase a plot of land just north of Cannes
where a 94-bed retirement home, The
Victoria, and a community centre, The
Grange, opened in May 2010. The Victoria is operated by a French company
EMERA and has an international mix of residents. The Grange, an 18thC barn, and now the Sunny Bank office, has been comprehensively
converted with meeting rooms, indoor and outdoor kitchens, a large terrace
and garden, which are all available for other Anglophone community events.
There are two guest flats for the use of British or other visitors to
the retirement home and it also houses the impressive library of
English books which used to operate at the old Sunny Bank hospital.
Sunny Bank Association and Sunny Bank
Charity are both loi 1901 associations
with HRH The Duke of Edinburgh as patron. As well as involvement in the
Victoria and the running of the Grange, Sunny Bank
operates locally as a charity to support elderly Anglophone residents
who are unable financially to meet their health or retirement home needs
in South-East France.
Address : 815 chemin des Gourettes 06370
Mouans-Sartoux Alpes-Maritimes
Chairman: Stuart Bateman 0493 402716
Secretary: Brian Woolf 0493 420182
Treasurer: Anthony Vyvyan 0492 027173
Office: 0493 479420