Will you donate to our Winter Appeal and help us provide extra support for children this winter?
This winter, children at St Mary's Hospital need your support. As the days grow shorter and colder we are relying on your generosity to help spark moments of joy for children during their stay in hospital.
For many children, staying in hospital can be a daunting time, and even more so during the festive period while they’re excited for family time, gifts and celebrations.
Doctors, nurses and therapists work tirelessly, round-the-clock to meet the physical and emotional needs of young patients all year. However, with an expected increase of admittance over the winter months we are calling on your generous support to transform their visit in hospital by providing above and beyond what the NHS can offer alone.
Your generous donation will help the children’s team bring a sense of fun and creativity to the patients they look after when they need it the most. With your gift, we hope to be able to provide new toys as well as music and art therapy sessions to engage and enrich young patients.
These important additions will have an enormous impact for young children and their families at a time of worry, putting their minds at ease and helping them reconnect with play and adventure. Our activities are tailored around fun and creativity while integrating areas of brain development, memory improvement, and reducing stress and anxiety.
Your generous donation could help us provide extra support for children like Oscar.
Nine-year-old Oscar lives with Diamond-Blackfan Anaemia, a rare and serious blood disorder, which means he has spent most of his life in and out of St Mary’s Hospital. Oscar is dependent on regular blood transfusions to keep him alive, and in 2022 needed a bone marrow transplant which restricted him to an isolation room in St Mary’s Hospital for more than eight months.
Oscar said: “Lots of kids, including me, rely on St Mary’s Hospital to keep them healthy and safe. When you are sick, you want to be somewhere that’s friendly, happy and colourful.”
With your kind support this winter, we'll be able to provide a wide range of extra resources to Children’s Services at St Mary’s, making a real difference for thousands of children like Oscar.
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You could help fund music therapy sessions, which have been shown to reduce stress, anxiety and even pain for children undergoing treatment.
You can also make a real difference by providing new and exciting toys and games for our young people, giving them the opportunity to play, and putting a smile back on their faces.
You could help bring colour and creativity to our wards through art activities. Art provides children with a sense of control and a creative outlet, giving them something positive to focus on while in our care.
With your kind support this winter we can help not only the children, but their families, staff and volunteers.
Please give generously and support our Winter Appeal this year.
You can make a big difference. Help equip the Children's Services team with everything they need to make hospital a little brighter for children and their families.
Thank you.