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last updated 16.i.2021

 

 

bringing greetings cards & cheer

to those tackling the virus

 

 

​​"Wow! Jonny, they are beautiful.   I love them.

I feel very emotional just thinking about the positive impact this will have." 

Geraldine Cunningham, Associate Director,

Organisational Development Team, Barts Health NHS Trust


The project is very simple, simple as abc...

It's called "Art-Brings-Cheer".

I'm simply organising cards to be distributed to hospitals & care homes coping with the virus onslaught, especially for staff who have now had a very long stretch.

The cards will be by all sorts of artists but must adhere to a cheery theme, especially plants, flowers & nature.   They're there for the thousands of staff who need to pen thank-you's and messages across their place of work.  Thanks go especially to Geraldine at the Staff Welbeing Hub at Barts, who leapt upon the idea hours after I approached the Trust. 

The focus is merely to bring cheer to people who could certainly & exceptionally do with it right now.

We are concentrated on Barts Health NHS Trust, which embraces over 6 hospitals — including NHS Nightingale London — and have been picked up by a couple of care homes.   We started in April 2020, never thinking that nearly a year later we'd be needed even more.

I'm asking individuals to put up about £120 — for which we get 500 cards — but we can manage with less, or more!   Sponsors will be asked to transfer their donation directly to the printer.   We have no other expense to cover.

In a remote 'from home' manner, the whole thing will operate quite simply: I shall send the artwork to the printer, he'll print, and deliver to the assigned recipient at the relevant hospital.

If they wish, the sponsor can have their name on the back of the card, along with the details of the artist & picture of course.

If you are a potential sponsor wishing to fund a batch of cards, contact me here!

For a page giving sponsorship details, click here.

If you are an artist wishing to contribute, do so here!

And if you represent another hospital or trust interested in the idea, drop me a line here.

That's it, as simple as abc.

 

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