The Lewis Foundation are a volunteer-run charity, providing company and gift packages to people undergoing cancer treatments.

I first came across the Lewis Foundation when taking Mum to her first Chemo treatment just before Xmas 2019. On every bed was a gift-wrapped Christmas gift, provided by the foundation, containing skin care products, puzzle books and a hand-written card. 

The Lewis foundation aims to help ease the loneliness cancer can bring about by spending time with the lonliest patients who have no family to accompany, as well as providing small necessities such as sanitisers, moisturisers, to time-killing puzzle books and mini-radios with headphones and the like to pass the time during chemotherapy treatments. 

Each gift bag costs the Lewis Foundation £3.60, so the £300 I'm aiming to raise will provide for over 80 patients across 5 hospitals in the Midlands.

Many thanks for anyone who donates toward this, and for more info on the Lewis Foundation and their impact: 

https://www.thelewisfoundation.co.uk/our-impact

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At The Lewis Foundation we source, package and hand deliver free gift packs to adult cancer patients in hospital and the community weekly items they might find difficult to buy themselves or simply cannot afford. It can be a sad, frightening and lonely experience for individuals undergoing cancer treatment. For many people in hospital and the community, our volunteers are their only regular visitors.

The Lewis Foundation has grown from delivering 80 gift packs to one hospital, to delivering over 2,500 to seven hospitals in the Midlands per month. They are Northampton General Hospital, BMI Three Shires Northampton, Kettering Hospital, Bedford Hospital, Luton & Dunstable Hospital, Leicester Royal Infirmary and Milton Keynes University Hospital Trust.