Staff on Sunrise A ward with the Easter Bunny (above)

Patients at our hospitals have benefited from lots of festive cheer this Easter, with visitors including the Easter Bunny, and the donation of hundreds of chocolate eggs!

On Tuesday (16 April), the team from Design A Party visited our children’s ward at Queen’s Hospital with Minnie Mouse and two princess to meet children and hand out eggs to everyone (pictured below).

To ensure older patients weren’t forgotten, the Easter Bunny paid a visit to our elderly care wards at both hospitals on Wednesday 17 April.

Local care home owner Mark Stack, who runs Rowallan House in Chadwell Heath, donated enough eggs to the King George and Queen’s Hospitals Charity to ensure every elderly patient could have one. He even donned a fluffy white rabbit suit to hand them out as the Easter Bunny!

Our charity received lots of other generous donations of Easter eggs to ensure no patient went without, including from Time FM, Mazda, S.M.I.L.E London and Essex, Highway Express, Tesco and Asda.

And festive cheer was brought to both hospitals with an Easter stall (above) selling lots of goodies including knitted chicks and other spring characters, and Easter hampers, all raising additional funds for our charity.

Karuna Sookarry, senior sister on Sunrise A ward at Queen’s Hospital, said: “It was so lovely to have the Easter Bunny visit our patients and bring them Easter eggs.

“It made a real difference to not only have eggs donated for our patients, but for them to be given out by the Easter Bunny! It’s nice to remember that this is just as nice for our older patients, as our younger ones.”