“Make us a brew”

“Make us a brew” is our annual tea and coffee drive that we run September/ October time for the special care baby unit at St. Mary’s Hospital in Manchester.  The unit is an amazing place with wonderful staff, and this is our little way of helping out.  When we stayed at the special care unit with our son Dexter, we were incredibly well looked after.  The month we got to spend with him, we drank more cups of tea than we care to remember.  For obvious reasons, all the money goes into care for the babies at the unit, but there are also parents rooms and a small kitchen area for parent’s who are staying on the ward if their baby is very ill.  Even though it’s not much, by providing some little things like tea, coffee and biscuits for the parent’s kitchen (and also as a treat for the staff) it goes some way towards helping.  As they say, it’s the little things.

We dropped off 3 boxes full of such items to the special care unit today (October 15th 2009) that were kindly donated by friends and family.  We’d like to keep this going and up the effort in the coming months, so watch this space….