Sunshine in Hospitals
Brightening the lives of seriously ill children in hospitals, hospices or other healthcare settings across the UK
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What is Sunshine in Hospitals?
Our hospital team delivers sunshine to children up and down the country currently receiving treatment in hospitals.
Our projects are designed to reduce anxiety, loneliness, and isolation in the hospital environment for seriously and terminally ill children and their families.
Our current projects
Find out more about our current projects supporting hospitals across the UK
National Teddy Bear Day
Celebrate your fluffy friends this National Teddy Bear Day with Rays of Sunshine.
This year we are sending out thousands of teddy bears and activities to spread a little sunshine in children’s hospitals across the UK.
World Book Day
Every child deserves to experience the magic of World Book Day, but for many seriously ill children in hospitals, this special day can feel out of reach.
Rays of Sunshine is working to make sure that seriously ill children aren’t left out by delivering World Book Day boxes and books to hospitals across the UK.
Sunshine Sensory Bags
Rays of Sunshine Sensory Bags are a set of sensory resources categorised into three parts to help facilitate play interventions for children and young people specifically requiring sensory play.
The bags include resources to help stimulate and support: Vision (See Sensory Bag), Hearing (Hear Sensory Bag), Touch (Touch Sensory Bag)
Hospital Activity Days
We work with hospitals across the UK to provide children and young people with days of fun and distraction on the wards.
These days, such as International Day of Play, help reduce feelings of loneliness and isolation for children and their families.
Liquid to Tablets
We teamed up with play specialists from Leeds Children's Hospital to help children and young people switch from liquid medication to tablet medication with our special kits.
This transition not only enhances the well-being of the children but also contributes to cost savings for the NHS.
