Friends of William Harvey Hospital

14/12/2025

The Friends of WHH elves have been busy in their workshop this weekend. 500 presents for patients in WHH on Christmas Day, wrapped and bagged in 18 elf-hours. All purchased by the Friends, as we do every year!

Special thanks to Elf Maggie for her outstanding assistance. Also thanks to Elf Julie in Boots UK Sevington for her patience and help.

And finally to everyone's support which allows us to provide this service to our hospital community every year.

I can hear the jingle bells starting now...🔔🎄⭐

12/12/2025

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything." — Plato. I'd add, it also helps pass the time when you're in hospital.

This week we donated three CD/radio players to Kings D Ward; here modeled by the lovely Sara and Liz! The ward is delighted with the opportunity to lighten the mood and maybe even bring a little movement onto the ward.

These CD players only cost £30 each but make a world of difference to those patients that don't have their own access to music.



Please consider donating via https://www.justgiving.com/charity/fo-williamharvey where you can also Gift Aid any donations. Or shop in our Friends Foyer Shop, where all the profits go back into buying equipment for WHH.❤

10/12/2025

Thank you to Mockford and Hunt for supporting the Friends of WHH again this year. They support a range of local causes and are really active in the community. Thank you!

Supporting our local community has always been something that Mockford and Hunt set out to do alongside running our local business in Ashford. Every year, we support six local charities or community interest organisations which have been nominated by yourselves and we are delighted to say that we have donated £1400 this Christmas to some amazing local causes..

The beneficiaries are: and of whom we are getting involved volunteering in the kitchen to help cook their Christmas lunch for the homeless and those in need of food support this year on 22nd December.

Last year, this service through Vinnies Diner at Bright City Church in Ashford fed over 70 people and we are delighted to be involved again this Christmas.

We hope this small donation goes a long way in helping these valuable charities/ community interest organisations that so many of us and our furry friends come to rely upon.

09/12/2025

HELP! Were you in Channel Day Surgery Unit on Monday 8th December midday-1pm? LOST WEDDING RING

*Appeal for help* Please can you help me with an appeal for a lost wedding ring? I was in the Channel Day Surgery Unit yesterday - Mon, 8th Dec - and left my wedding ring on the basin of the disabled toilet (adjacent to the surgery's main reception). Unfortunately by the time I realised I'd left it, it had gone. Sadly it has not been handed in, but I am hoping that we can try and appeal to anyone that might have picked it up and not handed it in, to return it to the hospital in some form. It's a plain, solid gold band with a small diamond inset into it. It carries significant sentimental value as it is a ring made up of older family wedding bands. The sentimental value to me far, far outweighs its monetary value and I plead with anyone that picked it up, to please, please, please return it.

If you want to return it anonymously, please hand it it to the Friends Shop, with 'Jill' written on it and I'll ensure it gets returned to this unfortunate woman.

08/12/2025

A lovely thank you note received today, I need not add anything!:

Dear Friends of WHH
"On behalf of our team, I would like to express our heartfelt thanks for your generous support in providing new furniture for our relatives’ room and staff room.

This upgrade has been a long time coming, and we are incredibly grateful to finally replace the old, broken, and worn items with brand-new, fresh furniture in such a lovely colour. The improvement in comfort and appearance has made a real difference to both our staff and the families who visit.

Please see the attached photos—we hope they show just how much your contribution has brightened our space.

Thank you once again for your kindness and continued support.

Best Regards
Janet"




Janet

06/12/2025

UPDATE: This wonderful evening raised £350 for our funds to buy equipment for WHH. It was great fun and very revealing how hard it is making these wreaths.

I also forgot to thank Pat for running the raffle and Jay for helping out too.

Same time next year?
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What a fabulous festive evening we had yesterday, making our Christmas wreaths.
Thank you to everyone who came, and especially to our experienced tutors from Linda's Florist (https://www.lindas-florist.co.uk/).
Everyone had a great time (I hope), along with raffle, Kimberley's cakes, and Buck's Fizz, all raising more money for the Friends.

30/11/2025

Why we do what we do: The Friends of WHH Board met recently and pledged funds for the following list of items. Why the beautiful dog? This is Sheba, our Emotional Support Trustee, who our attends meetings and ensures we are all herded into one place, as a Collie should!

1 Clinical Biochemistry - Slide Stainer for Cellular Pathology - £13,500

2 Renal Satellite Unit - New Blinds for the whole unit - £6,110

3 Maternity - Pre-term Baby Mannequin for training - £7,651

4 Maternity - Edan Air Fetal Monitor - £9,233

6 NICU - Transport Incubator and Trolley - £32,114

7 Andrology - Microscope Camera and Monitor Attachments - £4,079

8 Channel Day Surgical Unit - Patient Trolleys x 3 - £20,906

9 Portering - Bariatric Powered Portering Chair - £8,731

This is for one quarter of the year alone. So this is why we urge you to use our Shop, and to buy from all our many fundraising events. And we thank you ALL for everything you do for and with us. We simply could not do this without our supporters.

You can support us directly via JustGiving, like Mike W who has just donated £62.50 inc GiftAid - thank you Mike!

https://www.justgiving.com/charity/fo-williamharvey

28/11/2025

A new event for us: A Festive Tabletop Sale on Friday 12 December in the WHH Foyer.

It'll have Christmas decorations, gifts, cards, wrapping paper, and anything else we have Christmassy available for you. You may also wish to buy tickets for our Christmas Raffle which will be drawn on 19 December!

A lot of the items, particularly the decorations, are handmade from our wonderful supporting crafters and the stall will be run by volunteers.

All profits will go to the Friends of WHH general fund to fund equipment and projects that benefit staff, patients, and visitors to WHH.

Our recent funding of £110,000 worth of equipment going to 10 different departments is only possible with the support of these sorts of events. ❤

26/11/2025

Hi All

Our Christmas Raffle is in full swing! Please get your tickets from our Shop.

We have, I think, one of the most iconic raffle prizes ever, forget the £200 Love2Shop vouchers...a home bundle with a new iron, ironing board, pegs and peg bag!

We also have hampers, toiletries, chocolates, and an amazing bundle of, local art legend, Mr Doodle merch, which is so cool and extensive, I will make a separate post on it! (Thank you to Mr Doodle and his team for supplying and delivering this.)

Tickets available from our Shop or, shortly, Bella's in Kennington - I'll post when they are available.

Every penny goes to fund our equipment and project purchases for William Harvey Hospital (We pledged £110,000 in this last quarter alone for equipment!)

24/11/2025

LAST FEW SPACES - BOOK QUICKLY!

If you want to come and make a lovely Christmas Wreath with professional florist help (and all the materials) - join us at our 3 hour Workshop at St Mary's on 5th December.

Pre-booking only: 01233 633 331 extension 723 8269 - ask for Kimberley.

It's one of the best value around and it benefits the Friends of WHH too.!

18/11/2025

EDIT: Thank you to everyone who donated and purchased, we raised an amazing £149! Considering most books are 50p, that's pretty darn impressive.
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Our last fundraising-stall hurrah this Friday 21 November! Our Affordable Book Sale.

We have lots and lots of books. New books are SO expensive, but our books are 50p for a paperback, £1 for a hardback. We also have some old/rare books priced cheaper than Abebooks.

We'll have a side-hustle of jigsaw puzzles and possibly games.

We will be selling our Raffle tickets too for our 19 December Christmas raffle draw - watch out for our post about approved items this quarter, we're going to need to raise a LOT!

Thank you to everyone who donates these items. We're not accepting any more book or puzzle donations at the moment. We'll post as soon as we need them.One