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 2020
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Saying thank you to our NHS

7/5/2021

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Happy Birthday to our much valued NHS!

Today the NHS is 73 years old.

We pay a special thank you to our national institution, and for everything our healthcare heroes have done over the past 73 years, and even more so during the fight against Coronavirus when they have worked harder than ever in testing times known than ever before.

Supporting our local NHS has been at the heart of our fundraising organisation since we was born in 2007, and in particular the Oxford Children's Hospital which has been our key charity since our inception.

The Oxford Children's Hospital, Ronald McDonald House, Sobell House and SSNAP are just amongst some of the local healthcare related causes that we have helped and supported enormously in our 14 years.

All these causes are close to the heart of our Founder Andy Baker. Andy wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for the paediatric teams, so for Andy fundraising to give back for his "gift of life" twice over - once upon birth and again at aged 12 - has been his inspiration to give back personally since the age of 14 to our wonderful NHS since 2003.

Andy has not only fundraised to give back but has also been a OUH Volunteer since 2014, working across radiology, Robin's Ward in Chox and more recently in the JR West Wing as a Covid champion volunteer.

As a result as a groups, we haven't half given back in spades to our local NHS, through tirelessly fundraising over the years raising incredible amounts of money, to make real differences to the lives of NHS staff locally at our hospitals and patients as only fundraising pays for the added extras and comforts that help make the hospital environments and stays even brighter.

We have also helped spread cheer joy and smiles to poorly children in hospital and their families through all new toys games and more raised as part of our annual festive "Sleigh2Give" campaign, which was created in 2015 initially as an one off Christmas toy appeal with Sainsbury's Didcot, but since has provided thousands of gifts to children's wards, neonatal care family rooms, siblings of poorly children, the family accommodation at the JR and funds to support the purchase of toys arts and crafts and games all year round for the children's hospital areas.

For example the Children's Hospital that stands today on the JR site wouldn't even exist had nearly £15million raised by the community not been achieved to build the very first specialist paediatric unit, which opened in January 2007.

We at Play2Give and Andy Baker have played an important role in the original campaign to build the hospital funding exercise, and along the way we have also made significant and long lasting impacts to be felt for generations.

In 2017, our very own funded patient room was unveiled within the Children's Hospital. After many years of tirelessly working a £40,000 goal The Play2Give Room was achieved and since being formally opened in 2017 on Melanie's Ward treats teenage patients facing long term hospital stays.

This is just one example of how our dedicated fundraising over so many years has benefited our local NHS for the benefit of young patients and their families but we have done besides so much its hard to put it all into words, but examples include:


  • £6,000 - cutting edge bedside monitors for every child's bed within the children's hospital, critical care and other children's areas across the hospitals. Raised as part of our 10th year in 2017.
  • The Play2Give Room, a single patient room for adolescent patients, at £40k on the teenage ward unveiled in 2017.
  • £564 - 150 thermo cooling mugs to enable parents to stay with their children on the wards while still enjoying a hot drink as respite. 2019.
  • £900 in 2007 raised from our first football tournament went to Heads Up, a fund at the JR funding research into head and neck cancer treatments in Oxford.
  • Over £10,000 across 3 years - sponsored a family room (2021) in Play2Give's name within the new Ronald McDonald House Oxford. Enabling families to stay closer to their sick children within a new 62-bed purpose built accommodation wing.
  • Fundraising partnership with Sainsbury's Didcot in 2016 raised £655 to provide two brand new PS4s with games for the teenage ward at the Children's Hospital
  • £3,343 raised for the Oxford Paediatric Eye Fund across two years helped fund imaging equipment inc a "RETCAM" used to photograph the retina of infants with a range of eye disorders including cancer of the retina.

  • Throughout 2020 funds raised for Oxford Hospitals Charity of £356.40 funded their Covid-19 appeal including funding disposable art supplies for the children's hospital, hot meals for ED staff, care packages and cutting edge communications technology for vulnerable patients.

Some of our other ways we have helped....

Funding State of the art equipment for children's critical care

Funding fun & engaging artwork for outpatients

Funded a Pioneering video link for parents with babies in newborn intensive care

Over £600 so far to support the incredible palliative care provided by Sobell House on the Churchill Hospital site for people with life limiting terminal illnesses. Sobell House is another cause close to our organisation as a dedicated supporter Angela Norris passed away last November from terminal stage 4 lung cancer and was so wonderfully cared for at home by Sobell's community palliative care nurses.

£100 - Oxford Cancer Centre Care Fund. Raised via a virtual football card fundraiser, 2020.

Over £1,248 supported the neonatal care areas within the JR Hospital raised for SSNAP (Support for the Sick Newborn and their Parents). Andy was a SCBU baby at birth.

And so much more!

Wow, so much achieved and provided to our NHS locally so from everyone at P2G a big thank you to you our community supporters, sponsors and donors, for getting behind our incredible work so that we can help our healthcare heroes in the NHS, as without your help and support and donations we couldn't of given so much of the above and more.

On this day the 73rd birthday of the NHS, a very big thank you and a very Happy Birthday to our NHS, we will continue to do all we can through fundraising to support our local NHS care services in Oxford.

Long live the NHS so a very big Happy 73rd Birthday NHS!

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Joining in the love for National Thank You Day

7/4/2021

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Today we join in the celebrations for National Thank You Day.

As we prepare to celebrate in 2022 15 years of our amazing fundraising organisation founded in 2007 by Andrew Baker MBE BCAv we extend our hugest of thanks to everyone who has and continues to support us.

To think that P2G was originally meant to be just an one off football tournament for charity set up in 2007, but from that very first 6 a side tournament held at Abingdon's Tilsley Park we have continued to just grow and grow and done so much providing so much and changing transforming and saving tens of thousands of people's lives across Oxfordshire and more wider afield.

Thanks to everyone who has donated the all important pennies and ££s, volunteered their time to help in so many ways, helped to organise events many of which, including our football tournaments, mini festive markets, balls and summer fayres in Didcot have been event institutions in the county, sponsored events, taken on challenges, adopted us as their charity of the years or donated gifts at Christmas as part of our "Sleigh2Give" arm, to much more.

Some of our highlighted and notable aspects of our work:


  • We have provided over £180k in total value of raised gifts distributed out to many local charities, and less fortunate families and people in need every Christmas, since our festive spin off Sleigh2Give (again meant to be an one off drive with Sainsbury's Didcot) was created in 2015.
  • Funded at over £40k a single patient room on the teenage ward, treating patients facing long term stays in the Oxford Children's Hospital, unveiled in March 2017.
  • The Play2Give Superheroes formed in early 2019 to help raise our awareness and funds including their first ever challenge of a 20 plus mile walk from Didcot to the JR in September 2019.
  • In 2017 we Funded six specialist neuro physiotherapy exercise chairs at the Headway Oxfordshire rehabilitation centre for brain injury service users.
  • Sponsored a family room in early 2021 in the brand new Ronald McDonald House Oxford after raising over £10k across three years to help fund the new 62-bed House at the JR for families of sick children in hospital.
  • Our Volunteers of just 3 in 2007 has grown to over 25 to date, ranging in ages from 17 to 70 plus.
  • Won Thames Valley Charity of the Year at the TVBC Awards, Jan 2020.
  • Provided £400 in grants to enable struggling families to buy Christmas presents for their children, 2020.
  • Two Didcot Summer Fayres with the biggest ever turn out in 2018 and 2019.
  • Sweet treat hamper to thank the amazing staff at Sobell House for working tirelessly to care for the most terminally ill.
  • Since 2018 Provided year round gifts to SSNAP (Support for the Sick Newborn and their Parents) for the family rooms.
  • Supported over 32 causes in 14 years.
  • Won the Best Fundraising Innovation & Campaign Award in the Didcot BACAs 2015.
  • Finalist for Charity of the Year in the Oxfordshire Business Awards 2018.
  • Sleigh2Give - our annual gift giving appeal - launched in 2015 and has just grown and grown and grown since!
  • In April 2021 gained our first ever business address and HQ in Abingdon, at The Lambourn. An exciting part of our continued growth and development.
  • Provided some magical pamper hampers with Marianne Slipper/ELTH to provide some tlc to struggling individuals.
  • Organised the first Didcot's Got Talent Show in collaboration with the Angels Performing Arts Didcot - a sell out show night at the Cornerstone in 2019.
  • Since 2020 Providing clothing packages to less privileged families in and around the Didcot area.
  • Provided over 300 Easter eggs in our first ever Easter appeal with Pure Gym Didcot in 2020 to Didcot foodbank so no child from low income families went without an Easter treat.
  • Andy opened the new Pure Gym Local in Didcot in November 2019, cutting the ribbon alongside local legend Jack Cummings.
  • Organised the first and successful Didcot Mini Festive Market in 2020 with the support of Didcot Events.
  • 2 successful sell out black ties in 2017 and 2019, and in March 2021 we hold our third gala Ball.
  • Andy Baker honoured with a British Citizen Award in 2017 & an MBE for services to charity in the Queen's New Year Honours 2021.
  • In 2022 we will become 15 years old (in September officially) and 20 years (2 whole decades!) of fundraising for Andy.
  • And much much more!

These are just a few of our notable achievements in our lifetime, and as we continue all year round to make a very real difference with very huge impacts there are likely to be many more over the years.

From everyone at Play2Give a very BIG THANK YOU and we look forward to your continued support going forward.

We have so much planned for 2022, to mark the two big milestones above, and we hope you will get involved and support wholeheartedly as always!

Just some of the many charities we have helped over the years:

Be Free Young Carers
Didcot Foodbank
Footsteps Foundation
Headway Oxfordshire
Home-Start Southern Oxfordshire & Home-Start Oxford
Markers for Mindfulness
Oxford Hospitals Charity including Oxford Children's Hospital
Paediatric Eye Fund, Oxford
Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
Sobell House
Soundabout
SpecialEffect

SSNAP
Style Acre
Angels Apa Off the Streets charity
Viking House, Oxford
£150 towards specialist trike for Jacob Hutchison with cerebral palsy from Didcot.

To all the individuals, volunteers, charities and groups all doing amazing work out there for others with kindness, thank you on this National #Thankyouday.
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