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Thames Valley Charity of the Year 2020
Play2Give in the Press!
During the course of our lifetime, our incredible work as a charity has been followed hugely by our local and regional press, and sometimes we have hit the headlines nationally, too. A wide selection of just some of the many newspaper articles online including TV reports can all be viewed by the links below.
2026
- Oxford Mail: Didcot charity funds new bathrooms at Sobell House Hospice
- The Oxford Magazine: Play2Give celebrates £10,000 milestone with Sobell House hospice bathroom transformation
- Oxford Mail: Didcot charity Play2Give now supported by Oxfordshire FA
- Oxford Mail: Play2Give Didcot Easter egg success celebrated in style
- The Oxford Magazine: Record-breaking Easter egg appeal brings joy to young patients across Oxfordshire
- BBC: Didcot fundraiser ‘really proud’ of charity room naming honour
- BBC: Andy’s Room – A sensory space for head injury victims in Oxford
- The Oxford Magazine: Sensory room named after Andy Baker opens at Oxford Head Injury Services
- Oxford Mail: Oxford sensory room open for adults with brain injuries
2025
- Oxford Hospitals Charity: Christmas cheer across our hospitals
- The Oxford Magazine: Sleigh2Give smashes records with biggest toy collection in its 11-year history
- Oxford Hospitals Charity: Play2Give Football Fundraiser
- Oxford Mail: Charity football tournament raises record total
- The Oxford Magazine: Play2Give football tournament 2025 raises most ever
- Jones Robinson Charity Update: Over £7,200 Raised… And We’re Not Done Yet!
- Jones Robinson Charity Swim: 34 Miles for Local Causes
- Oxford Mail: Estate agent staff to swim 34 miles in aid of Didcot charity
- Oxford Mail: Play2Give delivers record number of Easter eggs to children
- Oxfordshire Guardian: Record-Breaking Easter Cheer from Play2Give in Eggstraordinary Appeal
- Oxford Hospitals Charity: Easter treats for patients across our hospitals
- Fortitude Communications: Fortitude announce charity competition winners
- Oxford Mail: Three Oxfordshire charities win competition to boost profiles
- Oxford Mail: Oxford hospice launches appeal to fund ambulance service
- Oxford Mail: Didcot charity collecting Easter eggs for children in hospital
- Oxford Mail: Didcot man born with brain injury raises £30k for charity
2022
- Oxford Mail: Truck Festival raises more than £120k for charities
- Oxford Mail: Play2Give raises more than £700 at Halloween Disco
- Oxford Mail: Sleigh2Give launches for 8th year
- The Didcot Herald: Didcot charity celebrates 15th anniversary by changing legal status
- The Didcot Herald: Didcot charity founder receives private invite to No10
- Oxford Mail: Didcot’s Play2Give annual football tournament makes £2,000
- Oxford Mail: Angels Performing Arts in Didcot raise more than £1,900
- The Didcot Herald: Mocky Khan steps down as Mayor of Didcot
- Oxford Mail: Didcot’s Play2Give doubled its Easter egg donations
- The Didcot Herald: Didcot’s Play2Give hopes to raise £15,000 to celebrate 15 years of fundraising
- The Didcot Herald: Didcot Town Awards celebrate community champions
- Oxford Mail: Play2Give launches Easter egg appeal
- ITV Meridian: Community Champions
- The Didcot Herald: Profile – Who is Andy Baker, Didcot’s Play2Give founder
- The Didcot Herald: Charities congratulate Play2Give founder for 20 years of fundraising
- Oxford Mail: Brain injury survivor and founder of Didcot charity Play2Give celebrates fundraising milestone
2021
- Oxford Mail: Dance School teams up with children’s charity for Christmas
- Oxford Mail: Christmas Sleigh2Give gift campaign kick starts with business leaders toy donation
- Oxford Mail: Didcot’s Play2Give founder awarded with MBE for 20 years of fundraising
- Oxford Mail: Superheroes blasted with colour in Didcot’s charity fun run
- Oxford Mail: Disability charities launch colourful superhero fun run
- Oxford Mail: Oxfordshire Health & Social Care Awards Volunteers of the Year Award finalists
- Oxford Mail: ‘I shaved my hair off for my mum Angela’
- The Didcot Herald: Sponsored head shave and dye for Play2Give
2020
- Oxford Mail: Didcot’s Play2Give founder to be awarded MBE
- Oxford Mail New Year Honours list: Award winners in Oxfordshire
- Oxford Mail: Sleigh2Give delivers thousands of Christmas gifts in Oxfordshire
- Neuro Rehab Times: How an appeal to raise a few pounds became a much-loved charity
- David Johnston: My first year as Wantage MP
- Oxford Mail: Mini festive market in Didcot this weekend
- Oxford Mail: Milton Park donated its Christmas party cash to Didcot charities
- Oxford Mail: Sports company owner runs 100 miles to raise £1000
- Oxford Mail: Didcot Christmas appeal Sleigh2Give had a spectacular superhero launch
- Oxford Mail: Didcot garage donates hundreds to help young carers
- Oxford Mail: The brain injury survivor that has raised thousands
- Oxford Mail: Angels keep dancing for charity effort
- Oxford Mail: Foodbank gets an eggcellent Easter donation of 200 eggs
- Oxford Mail: Charity football tournament is getting ready to kick off
- David Johnston: I’ve now met two of Didcot’s greatest heroes
- Oxford Mail: Didcot Charity ‘Play2Give’ founder given award
- Oxford Mail: Prime Minister awards Didcot charity ‘Play2Give’ founder
2019
- Oxford Mail: Sleigh2Give brings toys to the Oxford Children’s Hospital
- Oxford Mail: Christmas has come early for the children in Didcot
- Oxford Mail: Town centre is now home to 24-hour gym
- Oxford Mail: Supermarket shoppers can now donate gifts to children in need
- Oxford Mail: Surprise a child with Christmas present they may not have otherwise received
- Pride of Britain Fundraiser of the Year
- ITV Meridian: Pride of Britain Awards Fundraiser of the Year
- Oxford Mail: Goal! Andy’s up for ITV Pride of Britain Awards
- Oxford Mail: Superheroes walk almost twelve hours for charity
- Oxford Mail: Town’s most talented take part in sell-out show
- Oxford Mail: Fundraiser named ‘community champion of the year’
- Oxford Mail: Does Didcot have talent? Auditions open for big show
2018
- Oxford Mail: Volunteers celebrate record year for Sleigh2Give campaign
- Oxford Mail: ‘Driven by my gift of life’ – brain-injured fundraiser smashes his £100,000 target
- Oxford Mail: Sleigh2Give campaign aims to collect thousands of presents this Christmas
- Oxford Mail: Didcot’s first summer fayre ‘absolutely fabulous’
- Didcot Summer Fayre: Inaugural event to bring whole town together
- Oxford Mail: New weekly quiz nights to start in Boundary Park for Play2Give
- Oxford Mail: Dedicated Play2Give fundraiser visits palace for 30th to remember
- Oxford Mail: Didcot man pledges to walk a million steps in a month
- Oxford Mail: Oxfordshire Business Awards 2018 – finalists announced
- Oxford Mail: Charity champion invited to Royal garden party
2017
- Oxford Mail: Fundraisers and Father Christmas bring joy to sick children
- Oxford Mail: Play2Give raise almost double £10k target in record breaking year
- Oxford Mail: Santa run at business park raises hundreds for charity
- Oxford Mail: Didcot honours best businesses and community organisations at glitzy ceremony
- Oxford Mail: Charity that helps sick children aims to raise £10,000 to mark 10th anniversary
- Oxford Mail: Tenth charity football tournament ‘extra special’ for organiser
- Oxford Mail: Emotional day for dedicated fundraiser as he collects national award
- BBC South Today: British Citizen Award for Andrew
- Oxford Mail: Dedicated fundraiser honoured by award for his 15-year campaign
- Oxford Mail: Emotional moment for charity campaigner after fundraising efforts pay off
- Oxford Mail: Leaping and twirling family fun day raises cash for Children’s Hospital
2016
- Oxford Mail: Elf Baker spreads Christmas spirit to poorly children in hospital
- Oxford Mail: Christmas toy-appeal sees flurry of supporters to make it the biggest yet
- Oxford Mail: Footballs swapped for sleigh bells as charity launches its Christmas toy appeal
- Oxford Mail: Walker battles through brain injury to raise cash for charity
- Oxford Mail: High scoring fundraisers took to the pitch for annual tournament
- Oxford Mail: Oxford Children’s Hospital fundraising heroes kick off 2016 efforts with charity football match
- Oxford Mail: New year starts for footballing fundraiser Andrew Baker
- Oxford Mail: The funding team with a £50k goal in sight for children’s hospital
