Thank you so much to all of our incredible supporters who have donated gifts, time and vital funds this Christmas.

We have been blown away by the support our hospitals have seen this year with more people than ever wanting to give back, as well as the wonderful supporters who continue to give year on year!

Children's Ward Grotto 

Thank you to those who have helped put a smile on the faces of our youngest patients by donating gifts for children who will be in hospital this Christmas:

• Leah Sands 
• Tesco Legal Team
• Avocado Properties 
• St Pauls Church 
• HRJ Foreman Law
• Own Homes
• Rise Gym
• Mosaic Property
• Evergood Associates 
• Crane and Staples
• Stevenage Football Club 
• Nuffield Health 
• MBDA 
• Tesco Broadwater 
• Tesco Extra The Forum
• Vickiesha Chabra
• Costa Stevenage Leisure Park 
• Stevenage Volunteering Club
• The Need Project 
• Paradigm Ventures
• Tesco Merchandising Centre 
• Computacentre
• Nutwood Pub Events 
• Mariana Kerr
• Hannah Scales
• Kristine Sisask
• The Professional Fundraiser
• The Works
• Barclays Stevenage 

• The Platform Pub
• Dunelm Stevenage 
• Clare Butler (Hair By Clare) 
• Presdales School
• Shhkindness 
• Tara Sangha
• A&L Books
• Dormakaba
• Pure Gym
• Stotfold and Letchworth Rugby Club
• Mini Athletics 
• The Peak Group
• Arcus
• St Albans Rugby Club 
• Letchworth & Baldock Lions Club 
• One Healthcare Hatfield 
• Tesco Property team
• Lorraine Wheeler
• One Facility
• Stevenage Christmas Market 
• Ridgeway Academy
• CMP Solutions
• Noemi Dombosne Horvath
• The OA Group
• Anjuli Cooper
• OBO Sharon Wade
• Steve Rigolli
• Johnson Controls
• Mode Lighting
• Yodel InPost
• Sainsburys
• Deborah Knott
• Your Plans UK
• MML Group
• Tracy Clarke
• TSB Stevenage
• Reed School
• Barkway School
• Therfield School
• North Herts Council
• PayPoint
• Benchmark
• Roche
• Cock O The North Pub 
• Tesco Royston
• Everyone that donated through our Amazon wish lists

Gift a Smile Appeal

Thank you to the following who donated to our Gift a Smile appeal, raising enough for 650 gift bags for adult patients as well as 200 teddy bears for our neonatal and maternity unit to gift to babies born at Lister Hospital over the Christmas holidays. We would like to say a special thank you to Jacqui from Ivy Box for creating the gift bags and The Puppet Company for providing the teddies.

• Evergood Associates
• George Hay Accountants
• R&B refurbishment
• Computacenter
• ARK Lasting Attorney and Wills
• Adrian Seville
• Charis Hatton Counselling
• Twigs and Bloom
• Heneom HR
• Ubere Mama
• Letchworth Lions club
• Mosaic Property
• Ashtons Estates Agents
• Crane and Staples
• Stevenage Grange Rotary
• Hitchin Rotary
• Hertford shires rotary
• Extreme scaffolding
• East Herts Masonic Lodge
• Mecca Bingo Stevenage
• Waltham Cross Masonic Lodge
• Cecil Masonic lodge
• Walter Cooper
• Ramsey Healthcare Pinehill Hospital
• Tesco Merchandising Centre
• Stevenage Family Volunteering Club

Deck the Halls!

This year, thanks to donations to our Gift a Smile appeal, we were also able to fund Christmas decorations and vinyl trees for patient areas in Lister Hospital. Thank you to the team at All Signs All Print for supporting this project.

Star Visits

This year, we were delighted to be visited by Rugby World Cup, star Rosie Galligan, the team from Stevenage Football Club, including the legendary Borough Bear, and St Albans City FC who all helped to spread smiles at Lister Hospital.

We would also like to give our thanks to:

• Ann Meldrum for raising over £4,500 for the children's ward through her annual raffle
• St Mary's Church for hosting our first Carols at Christmas Concert with performances from the Jupiter Singers 
• Nuffield Health Letchworth who donated over 400 advent calendars 
• Leah Sands for donating Christmas cards 
• Airbus Stevenage for raising over £1,900 for the Butterfly Service collecting at their annual Christmas lunch events 
• All the pubs that took part in our 'It's Quizmas' event
• Everyone who donated to our Christmas appeal
• Emma Harrison for organising a Christmas collection at Waitrose to raise funds for Lister Cancer Centre 
• The Puppet Company, Karessa and Crystals and Fossils for offering discounted gifts to NHS Staff as part of our annual discount shopping day 
• Tesco Merchandising Centre for donating 40 tubs of chocolates for Hertford County and QEII staff 
• Nutwood Events for organising a parade of 60 Christmas inspired vehicles to deliver gifts to the Children's ward
• Jatinder Kaur for donating hundreds of boxes of chocolates for Mount Vernon Cancer Centre staff 
• Rickmansworth School for donating 100 gifts for patients at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre 
• Moor Park Residents Association for organising their annual Christmas Fair in aid of Mount Vernon Cancer Centre 
• Ruislip Roundtable for fundraising for Mount Vernon Cancer Centre through their Santa's Sleigh 
• Penny from Lemon Tuesday Choir for choosing to fundraise to the Lynda Jackson Centre through their annual Carol Concert 
• Amazing Occasions for donating decorations for our children's ward Grotto 
• Stevenage Day Service Choir, Knebworth Chorus Choir, Handbell Ringers, Nobel School Choir, Edwinstree Middle School Choir for performing for patients and visitors at our hospitals