Martin Pyke

Westbourne Lights raising funds for the Macmillan team at Southend Hospital

Fundraising for Mid & South Essex Hospitals Charity
£7,059
raised of £3,000 target
Westbourne Lights 2024, 30 November 2024
Donations to this appeal will be going towards extra equipment or resources needed to support our NHS staff and patients at Basildon, Broomfield and Southend Hospital as part of Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

Story

We are running our Christmas light display again this year, to raise much needed funds for the Macmillan team at Southend Hospital. All money donated (via the Mids and South Essex Hospitals charity) is ‘ring fenced’ to be used by Macmillan at Southend Hospital to help local people.

Our display is the only visitor operated, mechanical display in the UK, and we have hand built all the moving displays.

We started building the display in February 2022, after Allison was diagnosed with breast cancer, and, like many others, received invaluable support from Macmillan. This display, is our way of giving something back.

Allison and myself cover all the costs of building and running the display ourselves. ALL monies donated through Just Giving goes directly to the Macmillan team.

We appreciate things are not easy for everyone, but if you can spare a few pounds for this very worthy cause, then we would be most grateful. But, above all, please enjoy our display 😊

Martin and Allison x

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About the campaign

Donations to this appeal will be going towards extra equipment or resources needed to support our NHS staff and patients at Basildon, Broomfield and Southend Hospital as part of Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

About the charity

Working to support Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, our aim is to improve the hospital environment, fund ground breaking research, support the development,training and wellbeing of hospital staff and provide state-of-the-art equipment, across Basildon, Broomfield & Southend hospitals.

Donation summary

Total raised
£7,058.50
+ £1,700.38 Gift Aid
Online donations
£7,058.50
Offline donations
£0.00

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