A North Ceredigion palliative care charity and the appeal for a new chemotherapy unit at Bronglais Hospital have both received donations of almost £100,000.

The Mid Wales Scanner and Cancer Appeal has presented Hospice at Home Volunteers and the Bronglais Hospital Chemotherapy Day Unit appeal with £97,383 each to help boost facilities in north Ceredigion.

HAHAV will use its funding to provide a day hospice at Plas Antaron after recently taking over the former hotel.

Hywel Dda Health Board has drawn up plans for a new chemotherapy day unit for Bronglais.

The funding has been awarded from the remaining funds in the original Scanner and Cancer Appeal Fund, which was launched in 1989 by the late Lord Geraint of Ponterwyd. It had been launched to raise money for a new CT scanner for Bronglais Hospital, with the scanner installed in 1991 at a cost of £500,000.

But as the fund was so successful, Lord Geraint decided to keep it going with a target of raising £1m, a sum which was met by the turn of the millennium and help to refurbish Bronglais Hospital’s Meurig Ward and radiology and surgical equipment.

With the remaining trustees reducing in number, the decision was taken to close the appeal and share the remaining funds.

The money was donated to HAHAV and the chemotherapy appeal.

Dr Alan Axford, one of the founders of HAHAV and the chair of the board paid tribute to the “tremendous contribution of the late Lord Geraint, who had been so supportive of the hospital during his political career”, and thanked the remaining trustees for their support of the two charities.

At the presentation, Lona Jones donated £1,000 to HAHAV in memory of her late husband T Glyn Jones, who had been the secretary of the Cancer and Scanner Appeal for a number of years.