Oxfordshire fundraising organisation Est. September 2007 Founded by Andrew Baker MBE BCAv
​Changing, Transforming and Saving Lives across Oxfordshire | Thames Valley Charity of the Year
​Patrons: Dr Winston Ellis & MP David Johnston OBE | hello@play2give.org.uk
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      • Against Breast Cancer Lifetime Achievement Award
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      • Ronald McDonald House
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      • Didcot Mini Festive Market
      • Danceathon 2020
      • Didcot Parkway Cakes Sale
      • Christmas Party 2019
      • P2G at Didcot Street Fair
      • Gweeplefest 2
      • Didcot Community Fireworks
      • Bounce Fest
      • Heroes & Spooky Villains Party
      • Class-Athlon 2019
      • Charity Ball 2019
      • Didcot Summer Fayre 2019
      • Charity Golf Day
      • Play2Give at Harwell Feast
      • Tesco Bag Pack Day
      • Rock and Roll Bingo Night
      • Didcot's Got Talent - Auditions
      • P2G at Didcot Street Fair
      • Christmas Party 2018
      • The 100K Rock and Roll Bingo
      • Oxford Half Marathon 2018
      • Strictly Angels Danceathon
      • Quiz Night - September 16th
      • Quiz Night - September 2nd
      • Quiz Night - August 12th
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        • Summer Raffle
      • Quiz Night - July 1st
      • Martial Arts Sparathon
      • Easter Raffle 2018
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        • Raffle 2017
      • Spring Monster Race 2017
      • Family Fun Day
      • Oxford Half Marathon 2016
      • Summer Stroll and Stride 2016
      • Charity Football Tournament 2016
      • Oxford Fun Run 2016
      • Fundraising Party 2016 >
        • Donut-Eating Contest
      • Charity Football Match 2016
      • Sleigh2Give 2015
      • Superheroes Spinathon
      • Family Fun Day 2015
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        • Raffle 2015
      • Oxford Fun Run 2015
      • Between the Local and the Global
      • May Bag Packing
      • Monster Race 2015
      • Sainsbury's Super BIG Shave Day
      • Fundraising Party 2015 >
        • Night In Pictures
        • Fireworks Display
        • Utopia Disco
        • Raffle
      • Sainsburys Sponsored Stroll
      • December Bag Packing
      • Movember for Play2Give
      • Oxford Half-Marathon 2014
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      • OX5RUN 2014
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Changing, transforming and saving lives across Oxfordshire

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Play2Give (P2G) is a Charity of the Year award-winning Oxfordshire fundraising organisation founded in  2007 by Andrew Baker MBE BCAv.

Based in Didcot, we support, raise money and awareness for a number of local charities including the Oxford Children's Hospital. 
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The Play2Give Room - a patient room for teenagers - was unveiled at the Oxford Children's Hospital's Melanie's Ward in March 2017 after raising over £40,000 for our own named room. One of P2G's proudest moments. Picture - courtesy of and credited to Newsquest Oxfordshire
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Since being established in September 2007, we have raised and donated over to £250,000 to date. F​rom all-year round charitable events and through gifts raised and distributed through our "Sleigh2Give" Christmas arm, we continue the heart of what our passionate founder is all about - changing, transforming and saving lives locally, with our particular focus on children, health and disability charities!

Read more about British Citizen Award medallist Andrew who was honoured with an MBE in HM The Queen's New Years Honours 2021. 

​Initially created as a football tournament P2G is an ever-growing independent fundraising organisation. Being hugely successful year on year our support and work grows and grows, helping tens of thousands of people through a wide number of events and campaigns.
​We raise money and awareness each year and all year round for many county charities (see more on these below). 

We are renowned for what we do receiving a great and loyal amount of support and love from the local community including very special royal recognition. As a team we are very proud of all that we and Andy achieve. ​Our name and reputation within the local community just continues to grow and grow. We were proud to win "Charity of the Year" at the Thames Valley Business and Community Awards in January 2020.
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Our proud Patrons are Dr Winston Ellis and David Johnston MP

We funded a patient room in Oxford Children's Hospital

2017 saw us achieve a special long lasting legacy with a sponsored room unveiled within the Oxford Children's Hospital in our name.


We were extremely proud and delighted to see the fruition of our labour of years of hard work campaigning and fundraising for the hospital rewarded with our very own sponsored single patient room benefiting teenage patients.

After years of setting out to achieve a £40,000 target for the Children's Hospital, late 2016 saw us reach the very special goal in our history. We were delighted in March 2017 when the ribbon to The Play2Give Room on Melanie's  Ward was officially cut by Andrew.

The room - a single patient room - was chosen in 2014 with us by the Oxford Hospitals Charity, because our inspiring founder Andrew had brain surgery when he was 12 and treatment from birth and our fellow team player, Dale Harris's daughter, Mya, for treatment to Spina Bifida since she was born. 
​A massive thank you to everyone who supported and helped us over many years including Sainsbury's in Didcot to achieve this very special room which will go on to treat and support teenagers and their families for a lifetime. 
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Our promotional video filmed over the course of two summer months in 2017 showcases what we are all about - changing, transforming and saving lives across Oxfordshire! With thanks to Interlock Productions for producing this fantastic film. ​
OUR CHARITIES:

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We support several local charities and we are always striving to help raise awareness and provide support to other charities within the Oxfordshire region, including...


  • Oxford Children's Hospital including children's critical care - reg. charity 1175809
  • Headway Oxfordshire - reg. charity 1156538
  • Ronald McDonald House Charities - reg. charity 802047
  • ​Footsteps Foundation - reg. charity 1123440
  • Off the Streets - charity of the Angels Performing Arts
  • SSNAP: Support for the Sick Newborn and their Parents - reg. charity 1146622
  • Soundabout - reg. charity 1103002
  • ​Be Free Young Carers - reg. charity 1042708
  • Style Acre - reg. charity 1101626
  • ​Sobell House - reg. charity 
  • Partyman's Magic Makers - reg. charity 1168797

READ ABOUT OUR CHARITIES
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Visit our full Gallery to see images of Play2Give's successes and work in action since 2007.
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With Sainsbury's Didcot, we helped raise £655 to buy two brand new PlayStation 4 with games for Melanie's Ward. Andy met young cerebral palsy patient Mitchell upon delivering the PS4's
Other notable funding differences we have made over the years:
  • Funded six specialist neuro-physiotherapy exercise chairs for Headway Oxfordshire. The chairs of these chairs were £30k and we were delighted to fund these through our 10th anniversary fundraising for the Kennington-based brain injury centre.
  • Funded in 2020 over £5,000 to sponsor a family room within the Ronald McDonald House to keep a family of a sick child treated at Oxford Children's Hospital accommodated across three years.
  • Funded 150 thermo-cooling mugs at over £750 for parents on the wards at Oxford Children's Hospital, raised with two NCS Didcot groups, meaning parents can take hot drinks onto the wards without leaving their sick child. 
  • Helped raise money, 2014-2016, towards the redevelopment of the Headway Oxfordshire Activity and Rehabilitation Centre, which officially reopened in May 2017.
  • In 2019 we helped provide funds for the sensory rehabilitation garden at for Headway Oxfordshire, which is to be completed by 2021.
  • Funded at nearly £7k bedside monitors for the Oxford Children's Hospital and PICU areas within the JR for each child's bed, raised through our tenth anniversary year fundraising for the hospital charity.
  • September 2016 provided two brand new PS4 with games and controllers at £655 for the teenage ward at Oxford Children's Hospital - raised and brought in partnership with Sainsbury's Didcot - through a fish and chips quiz night and an in-store raffle.
  • Raised and donated over thousands of presents at £110k in value to local charities and local children in need since 2015 through our 'Sleigh2Give' Christmas gift appeal.
  • Since 2009, we have continually helped fund medical equipment including towards revolutionary machines which diagnose meningitis at a rapid rate for young patients at Oxford Children's Hospital. ​​
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We are a well-regarded and established fundraising group recognised at many levels for our work and successes in charitable work across Oxfordshire including the following successes:
  • Winner - The Charity of the Year Award - Thames Valley Business & Community Awards 2020
  • ​Finalists in 2 categories of the Didcot BACAs 2018​  
  • Finalist in The Oxford Times Charity & Community Award - Oxfordshire Business Awards 2018
  • Finalists of 3 categories in the Didcot BACAs 2017
  • Finalists in 2 categories of OCVA Awards 2017 - Charity of the Year / Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Supporter of the Year - OUH NHS Trust Staff Recognition Awards 2016. 
  • Finalist of Best Fundraising Innovation/Campaign - Didcot BACAs 2016​
  • ​Winner of Best Fundraising Innovation/Campaign - Didcot BACAs 2015
  • Finalist in Oxfordshire Charity & Volunteer Awards 2013
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​Oxfordshire fundraising organisation Established 2007 - Changing transforming and saving lives across Oxfordshire
Patrons: Dr Winston Ellis and David Johnston OBE MP

Head Office: 3 King Walk, Didcot, Oxon OX11 7PE
Email: hello@play2give.org.uk | Telephone: 07939064308
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