Sun readers’ messages of hope as our campaign to raise £1m for NHS staff fighting coronavirus is flooded with donations
SUN readers have left heartwarming messages of hope as our campaign to raise £1million for the NHS staff fighting the coronavirus pandemic is flooded with donations.
The Sun launched the Who Cares Win appeal to give all NHS frontline staff help they desperately require during this unprecedented crisis.
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Our readers have already selflessly donated £68,910.71 in less than 24 hours.
The Sun — which each year celebrates our amazing hospital workers in our Who Cares Wins Awards — is donating £50,000.
Generous readers have left touching messages to our brave heroes fighting the killer bug.
One 78-year-old donor wrote: "I have never seen anything like this virus.
One added: "I served in the Armed Forces for 20 years, but I was not in the front line EVERY DAY.
"Well done The Sun and I hope you smash the amount you are aiming for."
Another wrote: "I wouldn't be alive today if it weren't for our amazing NHS Staff.
"I wish I could do more, but with a chronic illness it's not possible. I love every last one of you, so please take care."
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 the money gets to health workers who need it.
Another generous donor wrote: "Thank you so much for the excellent work you have done in the past and stepping up know during this global virus.
"We all complain about the normal waiting times. Perhaps in future we will think more of what’s going on behind the scenes."
One Sun reader added: "Stay safe! I'm ever so happy to support NHS with my donation! Thank you The Sun!"
A selfless couple who donated also wrote: "My husband and I have had the best treatment possible during our years.
"My husband has had a kidney transplant, type 1 diabetes, lung cancer and more.
"I have cancer and have had a heart transplant. We would not be here now but for our GREAT NHS."
Every penny you give will go to NHS Charities Together, which supports 240 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.
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.
“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.
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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