HELP NHS HEROES
THEY are the heroes the nation is depending on — bravely risking their own lives to save Covid-19 victims — and here is your chance to pay them back in their hour of need.
The Sun is launching a £1million appeal to give all NHS frontline staff help they desperately require during this crisis.
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Our Who Cares Wins Appeal aims to get vital support to staff — from providing food and care packs to giving them somewhere to sit and rest.
We have teamed up with NHS Charities Together in its urgent Covid-19 Appeal to make sure your money gets to health workers who need it.
And to start the ball rolling, The Sun — which each year celebrates our amazing hospital workers in our Who Cares Wins Awards — is donating £50,000.
We know money is tight with so many jobs on the line but for 50 years you have been Britain’s most generous readers, the ones with the biggest hearts.
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No matter how little you can spare, please donate today at our special giving page.
Every penny you give will go to NHS Charities Together, which supports 140 health service charities around the UK, to aid our brave carers.
Less than two weeks ago they launched a national appeal to raise millions to provide much-needed support for NHS staff and volunteers caring for thousands of Covid-19 sufferers.
The money will go to local hospital charities to pay for essential supplies of food, drinks, overnight wash kits, sleep pods, furniture for staff rest areas and grocery boxes to take home to their families.
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Give now to The Sun's NHS appeal
BRITAIN’s four million NHS staff are on the frontline in the battle against coronavirus.
But while they are helping save lives, who is there to help them?
The Sun has launched an appeal to raise £1MILLION for NHS workers.
The Who Cares Wins Appeal aims to get vital support to staff in their hour of need.
We have teamed up with NHS Charities Together in their urgent Covid-19 Appeal to ensure the money gets to exactly who needs it.
The Sun is donating £50,000 and we would like YOU to help us raise a million pounds, to help THEM.
No matter how little you can spare, please donate today here
South Western Ambulance Service is distributing boxes of food and essentials to staff self-isolating at home.
Oxford Hospitals Charity has provided hundreds of care packs for staff who have to live away from their homes to prevent spreading the disease.
They also run a meals service for staff forced to stay in hotels near hospitals to avoid infecting vulnerable relatives.
Children’s hospitals are using some of the money to order disposable toys to avoid kids passing on coronavirus.
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Hospitals in West Hertfordshire have used funds to buy extra iPads so patients who are no longer allowed visitors can communicate with worried loved ones trapped at home.
In London, “wellbeing hubs” have been set up at King’s College Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital.
These are much-needed spaces where staff can take a break from the often heartbreaking hours of caring for patients with the virus, which has claimed 3,605 UK lives.
Businesses and a wealthy benefactor have already donated more than £15million to the Covid-19 fund. But more money is desperately needed.
That is why we have launched The Sun’s Who Cares Wins Appeal to benefit NHS Charities Together.
WHAT OUR HEROES NEED HELP WITH ON THE FRONTLINE:
- KING’S College Hospital Charity has used donations to build wellbeing hubs in its two London hospitals. Staff at King’s College and the Princess Royal can take a break out of the heavy protective equipment, eat and chat. The charity is providing hardworking staff with groceries, shaving kits and even knickers paid for from donations.
- THE West Herts Hospitals Charity has asked the NHS Charities Together Covid-19 fund for money to pay for 250 iPads so isolated patients can Facetime or Skype relatives banned from visiting wards during the crisis. They also need money to set up a “chill out area” to allow staff on minimum 12-hour shifts to wind down. Wellbeing packs with gifts, chocolate, hand cream, lip balm and toiletries are being handed out to frontline workers.
- HOSPITALS of North Midlands asked for £5,000 from the Covid-19 fund to help boost morale for 12,000 staff and 700 volunteers at the Royal Stoke Hospital and County Hospital in Stafford. They want to give Care to Share packs of food from local shops and wash kits to workers in 100 wards and departments. A spokesman said: “Staff feel the impact to their health of long hours without access to basic food, drink and hygiene goods.”
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We are asking readers to help us raise at least another £1million for this vital fund.
If you are working from home why not donate some of the money you have saved on train fares or fuel for the car since lockdown began last month. Why not go online and give cash you would have spent on coffee and lunches to this vital appeal.
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Perhaps hold a fundraiser — without breaking guidelines on social distancing — and donate.
Or just go to our Who Cares Wins Appeal Virgin Giving site and give a few quid.
Today, Ellie Orton, chief executive of NHS Charities Together, said: “Thank you to The Sun and your generous readers for helping us to help NHS workers during this emergency.
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“We are distributing funds to NHS charities that have moved heaven and earth to rapidly put in place the extra support for NHS staff, volunteers and patients impacted by Covid-19 crisis.”
YOU can help celebrate our matchless NHS at The Sun’s fourth annual Who Cares Wins awards.
We will honour individuals and teams who are facing the unprecedented health crisis on our behalf. Nominations for the 2020 awards will open soon.
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