This week Linda & I paid our fourth visit to East Surrey Hospital to deliver items to the Neonatal Unit and Brockham Ward. There were so many bags we had to make a double journey from the carpark to distribute all these items.

Firstly, to the Neonatal Unit, where the knitted items and incubator mats were greeted with much appreciation. It is clear that this act of generosity is as much a show of support to the staff as well as a gift to the babies and their parents. The staff were anticipating that there will a few babies in over the Christmas period when they create and give a stocking to each baby. One of your knitted items will be in those stockings.

You amazing ladies have produced approx. 500 items for this unit this year, so our thanks to you and the Tanbridge House School Community Support funding that has made this possible.

And then we went onto Brockham Ward where we delivered the Emergency wash kits and the dementia cuffs. Here the very real need for these kits was illustrated by the 3 women waiting to see a specialist having just been re-directed there from A & E. Their days were not going as planned and there was a real possibility that someone would be staying in overnight. They would be benefiting from the kindness of strangers with one of our wash kits. Kath has designed a label that is put onto the bags to explain that it is donated by us.

40 kits were delivered on this occasion which brings our total to approx. 120 since this project was instigated at the start of the year.

All of these efforts make a very real difference to women in our area when a little extra assistance is required. Thank you all.