By By Emily Caulkett-
Lord Alan Sugar and his family have pledged to help fund a new community centre in Redbridge. The pledge is to support Jewish Care’s plans to develop the Redbridge Care and Community Campus for those in east London and Essex.
The centre will be made up of a community centre space which will house a centre for people living with dementia along with a 66-bed care home, replacing Jewish Care’s Vi & John Rubens House in Gants Hill.
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Dementia is a general term for the impaired ability to remember, think, or make decisions that interferes with doing everyday activities. Its victims are usually over 60 years of age.
The pledge by the business magnate is to go towards Jewish Care’s plans to develop the Redbridge Care and Community Campus for those in east London and Essex.
The centre is due to open in the summer of 2025 and subject to planning permission, the campus will be situated on the current Redbridge Jewish Community Centre site – formerly known as Sinclair House – in Clayhall.
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Lord Sugar, who also stars in BBC show The Apprentice, said: “We are proud to be supporting the exciting development of a new care and community campus in Redbridge.
: “Our family have had a long and deep association with Jewish Care’s services in Redbridge, where my late mother was a resident at Vi & John Rubens House.
“We are absolutely delighted to be helping our older community live with dignity and compassion in facilities that deliver high quality care on a state-of-the-art campus.
“We hope our commitment will be a catalyst for Jewish Care’s other local supporters to join us and the Ronson family in making this project a reality, which the Essex and east London community truly deserves and can rightfully feel proud of.”
The Ronson family, via the Gerald and Gail Ronson Family Foundation, has also made a pledge towards the development in cpllaboration with the Redbridge Aid Golf Society.
Jewish Care is now launching a campaign to raise the remaining £5 million in funds from the local
Lord Sugar is one of the few billionaires in the Uk(there are over 170 billionaires in Britain), who owns many electronics companies including internet TV service YouView, and digital company Amscreen. He also reportedly has a property investment company called Amsprop, which he runs with his son Dan.
Sugar entrepreneurial exploits began as a general importer/exporter, achieving lower production prices by using injection moulding plastics for hi-fi turntable covers, severely undercutting competitors who used vacuum-forming processes. Manufacturing capacity was expanded to include the production of audio amplifiers and tuners.
After a take-over battle with Robert Maxwell, Sugar teamed up with Terry Venables and bought Tottenham Hotspur football club in June 1991. Although Sugar’s initial investment helped ease the financial troubles the club was suffering at the time, his treatment of Tottenham as a business venture and not a footballing one made him an unpopular figure among Spurs fans.
Lord Sugar has been awarded two honorary Doctorates of Science and in 2000 he was knighted by the Queen for services to business.
Tottenham Hotspur did not flourish much under Sugar’s leadership as chairman, winning just one trophy, the 1999 Football League Cup.
Sugar won a legal battle against Venables, after appealing to the high courts for re-instatement.Lord Sugar has been awarded two honorary Doctorates of Science and in 2000 he was knighted by the Queen for services to business.
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