18/04/2025
Amazing. Well done Play2Give
Fifth Easter Egg Appeal is a smashing Record Breaking success ✨️🐰
Now there is no yolking about it, as it's a brand new Easter Egg Appeal record for Play2Give!
Thanks to the incredible support from the community and not just from Oxfordshire, a record 1,700 plus Easter eggs was raised this year, bringing plenty of joy to children and people in need 🐰🐣
Thanks to the wonderful generosity of supporters for the appeal from local businesses and groups to dance school, gyms, supermarkets and shops, we've cracked it and we only went and did it by smashing our previous record of 1,238 by increasing on almost 500 more for a grand 2025 eggscellent amount of 1,720!
We are once again blown away by the immense generosity also including many individuals who have all contributed to making our 2025 and 5th Easter anniversary Appeal the biggest, best, and most special one yet 💕
It really has been a recipe for success, and literally no egging about it, our 2025 Easter amnesty has been egg-mazing. We are totally egg-static and egg-mendously grateful
On Tuesday, we were eggcited to make our grand deliveries to our chosen Oxford healthcare institutions thanks to our bunny who was full of beans and energy like the Duracell rabbit with Andy delivering thousands of eggs, helping to spread some cheer to those children in hospital and hospices, making difficult times a bit more special 💞
Action for Children's Viking House on Saxon Way was the first eggstravagant stop of the day, followed by a little trek up to the neonatal care unit of the JR via SSNAP (Support for the Sick Newborn and their Parents), followed by a noon visit for our biggest haul at the Oxford Children's Hospital (with eggs also destined for the children's ward at Banbury's Horton Hospital, children's emergency department, NOC children's ward and other children's areas) and even a giant carrot in tights (or rather Jamie from the hospital charity hub, as all in a day job for Jamie!) joined the bunny in the atrium and on Level 0 - Bellhouse and Drayson Wards and the teenage Melanie's Ward, and last but not least with over 205 eggs to Sobell House, our final pit stop of the day, making life better at the most difficult of times, and we couldn't of done it without our eggstraordinary supporters ❤️
Due to the overwhelming number of eggs we received from our biggest ever collection, which included more public donation points than ever before, we were also able to leave eggs with our friends at Oxford Hospitals Charity to distribute to three more of our most dearest wards at the hospitals to treat the more older patients - Neuro Ward, Cardiac Ward and the Cancer Ward at the Churchill to local families struggling through Didcot Foodbank, which is seeing an egg-mazing delivery of over 210 eggs on Good Friday morning, and some individual referred families in low income.
Once again, if you supported this appeal, thank you so much it is beyond words egg-marvellous, and we are egged over twice over by your kindness and love 🫶🥰
Thank you for making a difference with us. We know how much these Easter eggs and chocolate treats will mean to all who receive them, as it is always heartwarming to see just what a difference a gift, a toy or an egg, can make as was seen on Tuesday's big delivery day.
We even provided ten boxes full of toys for young patients for those who may not be able to eat chocolate, and for those coming into stay in hospital on their birthdays or for long stays over the coming months, thanks to the record-breaking number of toys that our 10th anniversary Christmas appeal raised last year.
Meanwhile, our bunny is fast asleep and resting after lots of dancing, wiggling and jumping for joy, ahead of it's big weekend 🥚🍫 🐰
We also add our special thanks to LD - Lloyd Davenport Ltd for kindly donating a van and transporting all of our eggs, as well as Amanda at The Lambourn (Mantle Space) for kindly storing all of our eggs over the past weeks, as we couldn't of done without them too.
