🎄 The WISHH National Elf Service Appeal is back for 2025! 🎅

The festive season is on its way, and that means it’s time for the return of the WISHH National Elf Service Appeal, spreading cheer and smiles across Hull Hospitals once again!

We’re calling on our amazing community and local businesses to join our team of festive elves and help bring joy to patients spending Christmas in hospital. Your support makes it possible for us to buy gifts, toys, games, and distraction items for children, as well as presents for older patients, helping make their hospital stay a little brighter this festive season.

If you’d like to support a particular area of the hospital, we’d love to hear from you, together we can make a plan that’s personal to you and your cause.

Now’s the perfect time to start your ultimate festive fundraiser! Whether you’re baking sweet treats, crafting handmade gifts, hosting a Christmas jumper day, running like Rudolph, or even organising a Carol-athon, however you choose to spread the magic, we’d love you to be part of our National Elf Service this Christmas.

So, dust off your elf hats, pull on your favourite festive gear, and help us make this Christmas truly special for Hull Hospitals.

Once you’ve decided on your fundraising plans, get in touch with the WISHH team at hyp-tr.hellowishh@nhs.net or call us on 01482 622299 to let us know how you’re getting involved.

Get involved in this year’s Santa Fun Run and Walk!

We have teamed up with The Friends Of Pickering Park, with their Santa Fun Run and Walk taking place on the Sunday 7th December, at Pickering Park, Pickering Road, Hull, HU4 7AB. Entry fee includes a Santa suite, race entry and a finishers medal! Cost is £7 child £10 per adult and £30 family (2 adults and 2 children). To sign up and run for WISHH visit www.hullsantarun.org for further details and to enter!

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Donations are warmly welcomed:

• Cheques made payable to “WISHH Charity” can be posted to:

WISHH National Elf Service Appeal, WISHH Charity, First Floor Admin Block, Castle Hill Hospital, Castle Road, Hull, HU16 5JQ.

• BACS payments can also be made directly using the information below.

The Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Health Charity (known locally as the WISHH Charity)

National Westminster Bank

Sort Code: 56-00-06

Account number: 29240360

Please quote reference: W20008NES (include your initials)

If you donate via Bacs, please drop us an email to let us know and we will send you a thank you! Also let us know if you are a UK tax payer providing your name, home address and postcode and we can gift aid your donation adding an extra 25 pence for each £1 donated!

Together, let’s make 2025 a Christmas to remember across Hull Hospitals. 💫