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Voluntary services bring Christmas cheer to patients
Our Voluntary Services Team are ready to spread some Christmas cheer to our inpatients on Christmas morning by presenting them with gifts.
Each year, the trust’s Voluntary Services Team buys Christmas gifts which are presented to those in hospital over the festive season, including those at Oaktree Lodge, Oxleas House, the Woodlands Unit at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Meadowview in Bexley and Green Parks House in Bromley.
The team have also been able to make up 50 hampers from a donation from the Woolwich and Plumstead Relief in Sickness Fund, which will be gifted to elderly patients in the Plumstead and Greenwich areas.
Julie Langford, Voluntary Services Development Manager, said:
This has only been possible thanks to the continued support from staff and patients at our snack shops and the kind donation from Woolwich and Plumstead Relief in Sickness Fund.
We know that these gifts really do make a difference in people’s lives especially at this time of year if they do not have any families around them.
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