What an incredible day out taking some of the families we support for a visit and tour of the Arsenal F.C stadium! We can’t thank everyone at Arsenal enough for helping to create such a special, fun day making memories that our families will cherish, including meeting mascot Gunnersaurus. It is always an honour to be able to provide wonderful days out for families with seriously ill children when they are needed most. Read more below. 👇🔗 https://lnkd.in/gsJeRCyM #Arsenal #Gunners # Gunnersaurus #SpreadaSmile #Community
Spread a Smile
Hospitals and Health Care
To distract seriously ill children from the monotony of long hospital stays by spreading joy and laughter.
About us
Spread a Smile is dedicated to improving the time spent by seriously ill children in hospital. We provide entertainers for seriously ill children and teenagers who are in hospital, often for prolonged periods of time, with life limiting conditions including cancer and heart, lung and kidney-related illnesses. We take entertainers such as fairies, pirates, children’s characters, musicians, magicians, singers, face painters and poets into paediatric wards, to activity centres and to children’s parties in Great Ormond Street Hospital, University College Hospital, The Royal London Hospital, St Mary's Hospital, The Evelina, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, King's College Hospital, The Royal Marsden and Noah's Ark Children's Hospice. Our aim is to divert their attention away from their treatment, stimulate their minds and to alleviate the boredom and monotony associated with sustained hospital stays. We also extend this work to the siblings of these children, as they are deeply affected by the illness of their sister or brother. There are potential additional benefits to our work. Guided by an advisory team of medical practitioners, we entertain thousands of children each year. There is emerging evidence to show that ‘laughter is the best medicine’ as it may help to strengthen the immune system, diminish pain and decrease levels of stress.
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https://spreadasmile.org/fundraiseforus/corporate-partners/
External link for Spread a Smile
- Industry
- Hospitals and Health Care
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- London
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2013
- Specialties
- Entertaining, Children in Hospital, and Children with serious illnesses
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Primary
Get directions
25 Horsell Road
London, N5 1XL, GB
Employees at Spread a Smile
Updates
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⛳️ Our Golf Days are just two weeks away and we have a £300 tee sponsorship opportunity up for grabs to help showcase your company. There's also one four-ball spot left for Wednesday 18 September. Interested? Please email [email protected] for more info and join us at the beautiful Brockett Hall for a great day out for a great cause.⛳️ https://lnkd.in/eTVbgVA7
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So proud of our partnership with Pan-n-Ice and grateful to their brilliant team for their commitment to helping spread smiles to seriously ill children and young people in hospital. 🫶🏻
🎉 One Year of Spreading Smiles Together! 🎉 One year ago today, we launched our Spread a Smile ice cream at both Westfield Stratford and Westfield White City. With 20% of profits donated to Spread a Smile, we've been able to make a real impact together... 💙 2,240 Spread a Smile ice creams sold 💙 £1,008 donated to Spread a Smile Spread a Smile brings joy and laughter to seriously ill and hospitalised children and their families during long hospital stays. We’re proud to have been part of this journey and look forward to continuing our partnership to bring even more smiles and joy to those who need it most. 🩷
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Spread a Smile’s mission is to bring joy and laughter to as many seriously ill children, young people and their families as possible, including those whose worlds have been turned upside down by a cancer diagnosis. ❤️ September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Every day, 10 children and young people hear the devastating news that they have cancer. Please visit our website to find out more about our work, the difference it makes and how you can get in touch if you need us. 🙏 www.spreadasmile.org #ChildhoodCancer #cancer #ChildhoodCancerAwareness #ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth #SpreadaSmile #CCAM #CCAM24 #ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth24
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🐶Thomas the therapy dog saying hello! This young patient was one of the first to receive one of our new therapy dog ‘Top Trump’ cards after spending time with Thomas in hospital. 🙂 The cards contain lots of interesting facts about our therapy dogs including their breed, tricks and favourite foods. They are a lovely way for young patients to keep a lasting memento of their meeting with one of our therapy dogs. 🐕 If you or your company is interested in sponsoring one of our therapy dogs and helping to spread smiles to seriously ill children and young people in hospital, please reach out to our Partnerships Manager, Lucy Kieth, at [email protected] - thank you!🙏 #therapydog #dogsofinstagram #ThomastheTherapyDog #SpreadaSmile
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📢 We are delighted to announce our latest NHS hospital partner, East Surrey Hospital in Redhill, which is part of the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust. You can read more about how we'll be supporting the hospital teams and spreading smiles to children and young people under their care by following the link below🔗👇 ❤️ A huge thank you as always to all of our wonderful donors and supporters for helping us to reach even more hospital settings and seriously ill children and young people. Thanks to you, Spread a Smile supports 33 NHS hospitals and six hospice partners across the country! 🙏 https://lnkd.in/eJ7XANEi #SpreadaSmile #NHS #hospitalpartner
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Riding House Restaurants has been partnering with charity Spread a Smile since January 2022, helping to bring joy and happiness to many seriously ill children, young people and their families during that time. ❤️ Last week saw us host another gorgeous tea party for some of these amazing families at the beautiful @ridinghousecafes in Bloomsbury, providing time for respite relaxation, togetherness and enjoyment in amongst the pressures of hospital stays and treatment plans. As always, the incredible @spreadasmileuk entertainers were on hand to spread smiles and laughter through music, magic, face painting and more, whilst our guests enjoyed a delicious afternoon tea. 🙂 A beautiful partnership which brings so much love to families supported by Spread a Smile, when they need it most. 🙏 #SpreadaSmile #afternoontea #RidingHouseCafes
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🥳 Big news! Introducing our new Intensive Care Library Project which will support some of the most vulnerable children on intensive care and high dependency units across six of our NHS hospital partners. When a child is diagnosed with a serious illness, life can become very unsettled, scary and unfamiliar, controlled by schedules, treatment plans and prolonged hospital stays away from family and friends. Through our book libraries Spread a Smile will provide a way for children and their families to find comfort and calm through the familiar activity of reading together. 📚 You can support this brilliant new initiative by purchasing books from our friends at Pickledpepperbooks who are providing an online book list of sensitive and age-appropriate books for children of all ages and stages at discounted prices. 🌟 Find out more and purchase books by following the link in the bio. Or please do get in touch by emailing [email protected] if you are able to support us through larger quantities of books. 🙏 Thank you so much for your support. ❤️ https://lnkd.in/eemYQTPc #charitytuesday #joyofbooks #joyofreading #booksinhospital #SpreadaSmile
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😆 Our Comedy Night is BACK! 🥳 Pop Monday 4 November in your diary for our next Comedy Night at The Comedy Store, London. Our amazing Ambassador Suzi Ruffell will return with another brilliant line-up, to be announced soon! 🌟 Please make sure you’re signed up to our e-newsletter to be the first to hear when tickets go on sale 👉🔗https://lnkd.in/eVHkVFfp #MondayMotivation #ComedyNight #SpreadaSmile #laughter
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🙂 Looking for something fun and positive to do with your whole family in support of others? Then our Family Fun Day on Saturday 28 September is for YOU! Not only will you enjoy a brilliant day out full of Spread a Smile magic, entertainment, fun activities, games and more, you'll also be giving something back and helping to spread a little bit of joy to seriously ill children and their families. ❤️ Tickets are on sale now (link below), and we hope you'll join us to help make our first ever Family Fun Day a huge success. 🥳 https://ow.ly/vVrK50T4ff8 #fridayfeels #fridayfeeling #FamilyFunDay #SpreadaSmile