A CHARITY Christmas grotto experience will be extended to children in Bradford Royal Infirmary this year.

For the past nine years, Yorkshire Children’s Trust has provided gifts to hospitals in Yorkshire to ensure no child wakes up in hospital on Christmas morning without a gift to open.

This year, the charity is asking for help from local schools, colleges and businesses.

Starting at Calderdale Hospital, the charity provided a Grotto experience with a special visit from Santa Blake who has provided tears of happiness to children spending time in hospital over the Christmas period.

Following the relaxation of Covid restrictions, the grotto experience will also be extended this year to Bradford Royal Infirmary as well as Calderdale Hospital and gift drops also being included at the children’s and teenage cancer wards at LGI, Dewsbury and Pinderfields Hospitals, Airedale Hospital and the children also staying at Eckersley House too.

Yorkshire Children’s Trust, with the help of local businesses and members of the public, has managed to gift approximately 2,000 gifts to children every Christmas time and this year with the cost-of-living crisis, the appeal is more important than ever.

To donate, visit yctrust.uk/donations/christmas-presents-appeal/, email simon@yctrust.uk or text XMASGIFT 3 and send it to 70085 to donate £3.

 

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