Leon leaves £50k to Oakhaven Hospice

Lara Crouch, director of Winkworth Estate Agents in Church Hill, Milford on Sea recently make a very significant donation of £50,000 to Oakhaven Hospice from a legacy made by her father, Leon Crouch.

Leon was a businessman and a former chairman of Southampton Football Club.

Lara and her colleague Chris Collinge were busy over last summer raising more money for Oakhaven Hospice in memory of Lara’s Father Leon. They arranged a football tournament at St Mary's Stadium, Southampton for 8 local children’s football teams. The event was kindly sponsored by Patrick Trant of Trant Engineering and LPE in Lymington. All the children who attended the event worked really hard to fundraise to take part. 

Alongside this Lara and Chris arranged a fantastic raffle which was incredibly well supported by many local businesses and individuals. The final amount they raised was £10,191 - a fantastic achievement.

Winkworth Estate Agents

5 Church Hill, Milford on Sea, SO41 0QH

01590 642641

milford@winkworth.co.uk

www.winkworth.co.uk

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About Leon Crouch (Wikipedia)

Leon Crouch (16 August 1949 – 13 September 2019) was an English businessman, who was formerly chairman of Southampton Football Club.

Crouch was the founder and chairman of the "Fullers Group" of companies which specialise in the manufacture, inspection and supply of precision engineered products, including machined components, fabrications, assemblies, kit sets and cold formed products for the telecommunications, medical, oil, defence, space, and marine industries.

He was acting chairman of Southampton F.C. until he was removed by the board in July 2007, but was re-appointed in December 2007, following Michael Wilde’s departure. Crouch was again forced to resign his position on 15 May 2008, when major shareholders, including Wilde and Rupert Lowe called an EGM requiring his removal. Whilst chairman of the club, Crouch paid personally for the replacement bronze statue of Saints legend Ted Bates which is now sited outside Southampton's St Mary's Stadium.

It was claimed by a representative of a Southampton Supporter's Club on Sky Sports News in late May 2009, that the only reason for Southampton's continued existence as a business was due to Leon Crouch putting money into the club "out of the goodness of his own heart".

He died on 13 September 2019 following a battle with cancer.