Well it is Christmas Eve and what better way to celebrate as a Radio Lollipop Newcastle volunteer than to spend it in the studio broadcasting our Christmas Show and have a great team – including Elsa, Snow White, a very nice Mr Scrooge and Santa’s Elves visit the wards of the Great North Children’s Hospital.
Radio Lollipop Newcastle wish all of our sister stations a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year – just don’t forget that Santa is on his way.
On Monday 12th December employees from Unite Students helped the Radio Lollipop Team to spread some festive cheer around the wards at The Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.
Unite Students kindly donated 60 goody bags filled with arts and crafts materials which they had purchased for us and a team came to assist us with delivering the goody bags.
We had a wonderful evening.
A great big thank you to Unite Students for your generosity and your support.
What do you get if you cross 17 children, 2 volunteers, 1 melting Olaf, 1 Christmas Elf, 1 Hobble Bear, lots of glitter and Christmas crafts and 2 hours of Christmas music? Why a Radio Lollipop Bristol Christmas party of course!
We had lots of festive fun at our Christmas Party on 17 December 2016 and lots of happy smiling children!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Radio Lollipop Newcastle were supported by a fantastic community choir called Heaton Voices today in the biggest shopping centre in Newcastle. They can really sing and brought the main square to a halt with their wonderful repertoire of Christmas songs and carols – at one point they were singing a South African carol and the choir were amazed when we told them of our new RL studio in Johannesburg. A pair of passing ladies stopped in amazement to listen to this South African music – they couldn’t believe they were hearing music from their homeland and were almost moved to tears when we told them about how Radio Lollipop bring so much to sick children. We were also approached by many people who came up to say that RL Newcastle over the years had helped them so much when they (or their children) had been in our local hospitals – they had never forgotten us. One lady even called us “Lifesavers” – this is what makes us proud to be part of an organisation who brings so much pleasure in at times what can be difficult circumstances for not only children but parents, grandparents, family and friends.
We must never underestimate and forget what we do and how it remains in our patients and families minds.
