The Fitzrovia Partnership
Donate a tenner so every child at UCLH will receive a gift this Christmas
Fundraising for University College London Hospitals Charity UK
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Donate A Gift is back this year, and we are asking for your support. As you can imagine it has been another extremely difficult year for children in hospital due to the complications of Covid-19. When Covid started, all the craft supplies, toys, workshop materials and games for the young patients had to be disposed of, so the cupboards are bare.
The Fitzrovia Partnership's popular 'Donate a Gift' changed slightly last year from the original toy drive, but was a huge success and made a massive impact on young patients and their families.
The funds raised enabled UCLH Charity to not only provide every young patient in hospital at Christmas time with a £10 gift, but also allowed the play specialists to purchase toys and play equipment for the inpatient areas within the hospital.
This year we are encouraging businesses and individuals to donate £10 to provide one gift to a young patient. There are 77 in-patient beds for children this year, so in order to gift each young patient, our target is £770.
Any funds raised over our target will support our wider project to replenish toys and play equipment throughout outpatient and ambulatory care paediatric areas. Many of our waiting rooms for children's outpatient services have very little play equipment and opportunities for play therapy due to the toy loss when Covid started. Over 250,000 children visit UCLH each year, donations over the total gift amount will be used to fill these areas with toys and to improve patient experience for young people visiting UCLH.
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