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Our wards are full of festive cheer following lots of kind donations from our community

Kaskaren and Sat

Jaskaren, Alison Stephen and Sat

Local people, businesses and organisations across Havering, Barking and Dagenham and Redbridge have ensured a very merry Christmas for our patients after making a huge amount of festive donations.

During the run-up to Christmas, both Queen’s and King George hospitals have been inundated with kind visitors bearing gifts.

Jaskaren Gill, 31, and husband Sat, 36 (pictured above with our play specialist Alison Stephen), of Clayhall, visited the children’s ward at Queen’s Hospital to hand over more than 180 presents for children who will be in hospital over Christmas.

The kindhearted couple wanted to do something positive and even got their family involved in making donations.

Jaskaren said: “We decided that it would be nice to do something for kids who are in hospital over Christmas. We had great fun shopping for it all, and it was lovely to come in a deliver the presents in person.”

Dutton Recruitment, based in Romford, delivered a cheque for £500 to be spent on our children’s wards and the local Sikh Welfare Society also donated over £1,000 raised from member donations.

Local businessman Brad White, of Archway, Romford, decided to give something back in his community after a successful trading year. Along with wife Kim and son Freddie, he delivered lots of toys to be shared among young patients (below).

White family

Pupils from Marshalls Park Academy also proved a great example to others when four pupils, Shannon Day, Alishia Dann, Jessica Smith and Scarlett Nordon organised a collection across all classes, encouraging their peers to donate their loose change. The girls then went shopping and bought a huge amount of games and colouring goodies which they dropped off at Queen’s Hospital (pictured below with teacher Trish Gilroy).

Marshalls Park pupils

Firefighters from Blue Watch at Ilford Fire Station paid a visit to King George Hospital to donate lots of goodies – including a toy fire engine! – to our Children’s Emergency Department.

NICU

The youngest, and tiniest, of our patients have not been left out either. Kindhearted knitters from the Mercury Mall Breakfast Club gave a huge box of hats and blankets for our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (above).

And staff at the Barking depot of Stagecoach London (below) found an innovative way to buy toys for the children’s wards at both our hospitals – they used the proceeds from selling scrap metal from old buses.

Stagecoach bus colleagues

All donations are given to the King George and Queen’s Hospitals Charity, which distributes them across our hospitals.

Our charity ensures that no patient in our hospitals over Christmas goes without a present. Every patient, whatever their age, receives a gift, funded by kind donations throughout the year.

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