Ensure a cracking good time for those in hospital this Easter and long after

Children who are poorly can benefit from your support in a range of ways.

With the supermarket shelves full to bursting with of all kinds of chocolate eggs, one local charity is calling on its supporters to consider a different gift this year.

Hampshire Hospitals Charity is normally contacted around this time by generous local people wanting to support children who find themselves in hospital over the holiday. However, they want to explain that, sometimes, those in hospital can’t actually enjoy the gifts they want to give.

Morgan Hughes, fundraising assistant at Hampshire Hospitals Charity, said; “Every year, our children’s wards across Basingstoke and Winchester are inundated with offers of chocolate treats for youngsters spending time in hospital over the Easter period. Whilst we are ‘egg-stremely’ grateful for all the chocolate eggs we are offered, often the children and young people visiting our wards over Easter may be either too poorly to enjoy these or not able to eat chocolate eggs.”

Instead, this year, the charity is asking those who would like to support those in hospital to consider making a financial donation to their children and young people fund instead, to enable their generosity to go further.

Ms Hughes explained how the funds raised could then be used by the charity; “The funds will be used where they’re needed most and could help fund projects such as craft activities for patients who might not be able to eat chocolate this Easter. They could also help fund adaptations to spaces, making them more suitable and welcoming to children and young people or provide specially adapted equipment for those with additional needs.

“Chocolate lasts a moment, but the funds we raise will continue to make a difference to those who use our hospitals long after Easter has been and gone.”

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