Spread a Smile

A little taster from The Wild Tonics who will be performing at our Variety Show on Wednesday 13 November at The Bedford in Balham. 🤩✨ Don’t miss your chance to catch this incredible trio along with a host of other talented Spread a Smile entertainers including magicians, singers, poets and more! 🪄💃👩🎤 Tickets on sale for £23.50 here: 🔗 https://bit.ly/3BOgSW7 All proceeds will go to help us spread even more smiles to seriously ill children when they're needed most.

With half-term underway, Spread a Smile has lots planned to help support our families. 🤩 We have four amazing family events planned, including an exciting trip to London Zoo today. Also, lots of virtual sessions to help keep children entertained in hospital and at home (including some special Hallowe'en themed activities). Plus our usual in-person visits to children and young people in hospital. ❤️ School holidays can bring many additional considerations when managing illness, with siblings at home too. We want to do everything we can to help ease the pressures and provide moments of respite and fun. Watch this space for more on all of our exciting events and activities and the difference they help make. 🙏 #halfterm #schoolholidays #SpreadaSmile

🎄 This Christmas, Spread a Smile hopes to send 1,750 personalised gift boxes to seriously ill children and their siblings. 🎁 Please help us spread a little bit of joy this festive season by purchasing a gift from our Amazon wish list to go inside the boxes. (Link below🔗). Choose ‘Spread a Smile’s Gift Registry Address’ at checkout and your gift will be sent directly to us to include in one of them! Thank you. ❤️ https://amzn.to/3U7Pw3m #christmas #christmasgift #smilehampers #SpreadaSmile

🎄Is your company looking to make a charitable donation this Christmas? If so, we'd love you to consider Spread a Smile. 🎄 We have some incredible activities planned for the festive season to help spread extra smiles during what can be an extremely difficult time for families with seriously ill children. Any support would be hugely appreciated and please do take a moment to check out how you can help below. From funding Smile Hampers, to Santa visits, festive artwork or sponsoring our amazing Winter Party, whatever you choose will help bring a little bit of happiness to the families we support at Christmas. Sharing this post would also be amazing.❤️ Thank you and please do reach out to our Partnerships Manager, Lucy Keith (lucykeith@spreadasmile.org) if you'd like to chat about how you can help.🎅 #SpreadaSmile #Christmas #ChristmasSupport #CharitySupport

😀 Don’t miss out on tickets for our amazing Comedy Night on Monday 4 November at The Comedy Store, London. This is your chance to see the brilliant Suzi Ruffell, Tom Allen, Angela Barnes, Jack Skipper, Chantel Nash and Ania Magliano all take to the stage for a brilliant evening of stand-up comedy! There will also be a special appearance from former #BGT winner, Richard Jones. 🤩 So what are you waiting for?! Tickets on sale now through the link below. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3Ycp8qA #SpreadaSmile #ComedyNight #Comedy #StandUpComedy #CharityEvent #CharityFundraising #Fundraising

🥳 Here’s to a record-breaking Play in Healthcare Week for Spread a Smile! Last week our entertainers carried out 30 in person visits to 22 different healthcare settings, reaching hundreds of children and young people - more than ever before! ❤️ We hosted a visit from Anna’s Animals to UCLH, ran numerous virtual sessions, took road trips to visit children and young people at Nottingham Children’s Hospital and Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and so much more. 🐢 We are extremely proud of our achievements for #PIHW 2024 and would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped make it all possible. 🙏 Read more here... https://bit.ly/3Yv6TxN #SpreadaSmile #PIHW #PIHW2024 #PlayInHospital #PlayInHospitalWeek #Play

When a young patient asked for a Taylor Swift Eras Tour themed design for their radiotherapy mask, Spread a Smile’s Head of Art rose to the challenge. 👨🎨🎶 For children and teenagers going through treatment for brain, head and neck cancer, painting their radiotherapy mask can help ease the process, making the mask less frightening and the experience more manageable. The masks are personalised based on each child’s interests and requests, giving patients an element of choice and control through their treatment journey. It can have a hugely positive effect, with one Mum telling us, “My son wanted his mask painted with a space theme and every time he was put to sleep for his treatment, he would dream he was going off to a different planet. It helped to make it a positive experience and give him happy memories and he now proudly displays the mask. It wasn’t a scary mask because it was his space mask.” Spread a Smile aim's to personalise over 130 radiotherapy masks for children undergoing radiotherapy treatment for cancer this year and are so proud to be able to be there during this very difficult time. ❤️ You can find out more about our mask painting and other art initiatives via the website here: https://lnkd.in/e8u7y8hn We hope Taylor would approve! 🎶 #taylorswift #erastour #radiotherapy #radiotherapymask #artinhospital #cancertreatment #artinhospital #artist #artists #protonbeamtherapy

🔊A message from our Ambassador and former Britain's Got Talent winner, Richard Jones about our entertainer Variety Show on Wednesday 13 November. 🔊 Tickets are selling fast, so we hope you'll join us for an incredible evening showcasing the many talents of Spread a Smile's entertainers. 👩🎤🪄💃 All proceeds will help us spread even more smiles to seriously ill children, young people and their families. Tickets via the link! 🔗https://bit.ly/3BOgSW7

👋 Hello everyone! We’ve had a few new followers recently, so we thought we’d (re)introduce ourselves by sharing our lovely new film which shares how Spread a Smile brings joy to seriously ill children and their families across the country. ❤️ This week we’re celebrating Play in Healthcare Week. Every day Spread a Smile’s entertainers visit young people in hospitals and hospices spreading smiles and enabling children to play, put aside everything associated with illness and treatment plans and just be a child again. Thank you for joining us on this journey. We hope you’ll take some time to find out more about our work and how you can get involved (please check out the link below). And please do share our film far and wide so that together we can raise even more awareness and support for our vital work. 🙏 Thank you. 🥰 Love, Team Smile x PS A huge thank you to Julie (Jules) Sander for all her support and hard work producing the film. ❤️ 🔗 spreadasmile.org #SpreadaSmile #WednesdayWisdom #CharityFilm #Awareness #PlayInHospitalWeek #PIHW #PlayInHospital #NHS

🥁 Drum roll please….! 🥳 We are so proud of our team of amazing runners who took part in the Royal Parks Half - London on Sunday raising over £50,000 to help us spread even more smiles to seriously ill children and young people in hospitals and hospices across the country. 🏃♂️Over 80 runners took on the 13.1mile course including friends from Mildreds, KSEYE, Corinthia London, Bregal Milestone, Redstor, MENSPIRE, Hilco Capital, DowningMcVitie's and BC Partners. We can’t thank each and every one of them enough for raising vital funds, sharing our work and generally being amazing! 🔗Check out the link below for more on Team Smile’s efforts on Sunday and also to find out about taking on one of our fundraising challenges. We're looking forward to hearing from you! https://bit.ly/4f0ken8 #SpreadaSmile #CharityTuesday #HalfMarathon #RoyalParksHalf #RoyalParksHalfMarathon #Running #CharityRun