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Shropshire Star answers call and offers up bags of help after hospital plea
The Shropshire Star was the first to answer the rallying call to help the county’s hospitals celebrate the NHS’s 70th birthday.
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital and The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, will celebrate the 70th year of the NHS with a charity fun day and fun run on July 7.
And the trust is asking local businesses to get involved by donating gifts to put into 500 goodie bags for those taking part in the fun run. Raffle and tombola prizes are also needed.
A first edition of the Shropshire Star plus a copy of the Shropshire Weekly magazine will be in each of the goodie bags.
Julia Clarke, director of corporate governance at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, said: “We are incredibly grateful to The Shropshire Star for their support, and I would like to thank them for their very generous donation. The support of businesses like the Shropshire is so important for our hospitals, as it benefits our patients and our staff.”
The 5km fun run will start at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital at 10.30am on July 7 – people can sign up by visiting sath.nhs.uk – and will be followed immediately afterwards by the charity fun day from 11am to 5pm.
The celebratory fun day will feature a Through the Decades theme, with each sectioned into activities.
The fun day will be officially opened at 1pm with the unveiling of a commemorative sculpture that is being produced for SaTH by The British Ironwork Centre using obsolete hospital equipment.
The “call to arms” was launched earlier this month by Julia Clarke, with the support of Peter Guy, president of the Shropshire Chamber of Commerce, and Clive Knowles, owner of the British Ironwork Centre near Oswestry which has sponsored the goodie bags.
If you are able to help, email communications@sath.nhs.uk
