Your support for staff in our local hospitals has been incredible and we are grateful for this.

Our role as the charity for East Surrey Hospital, and Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust is to help NHS Staff go above and beyond for you, our patients, our friends, our families and our whole community.

Your donations are helping right now, and every penny you kindly raise is used here in the local hospitals. East Surrey Hospital, Crawley Hospital, Horsham Hospital and to help the staff elsewhere in Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust through COVID-19.

You can see how your donations have supported real-life improvements in the hospitals here:

We will continue to adapt and develop throughout this unprecedented period in our National Health Service to help get your support to where it is needed most across our hospitals. We wanted to let you know what we are doing on your behalf:

- You are supporting NHS staff: We love NHS staff. And we know you do too, so above all, we are working with colleagues to support staff welfare across Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust. With your help we have already provided new sofas and coffee machines for the Emergency Department staff rest area, and are hoping to be able to create a new 24/7 staff welfare/de-stress area for staff to use during breaks or following difficult incidents.

- Supporting staff ideas: Where NHS colleagues have ideas for how charitable funding can help them go further for patients, or each other, we are open for business, so staff can apply right now to get support for their own idea with your donations. We will get this money to staff quickly.

- Help us buy everyone a drink: With your help, we will build a small budget to help NHS staff across our hospitals go for social events once the coming period of pressure and social distancing measures has passed. We will (with your support) help each and every team across SASH NHS Trust (from cleaners, to porters, nurses, and leaders) to go for a drink/social event. Because we (like you) love our NHS staff, and we want to say thank you.

Please continue to support the COVID-19 appeal which will help our future projects such as:

Developing our outdoor areas to create spaces which offer peaceful and restorative environments for hospital staff and patients to recharge, take a break and spend time outside all year round.

Improving psychological care for staff, in particular the mental health and recovery of NHS Staff and volunteers who have worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic

Your kind words are being passed on to NHS staff, if you have any stories or photos that you would like us to pass on to a particular team or to all staff please email us: sash.charity@nhs.net

Find out more or contact us at www.sashcharity.org