AstraZeneca workers toy drive to support Children’s Ward at Macclesfield Hospital

Kindhearted members of staff from AstraZeneca showed their generosity this week when they dropped off a big toy donation at the Children’s Ward at Macclesfield General Hospital.

The civic minded trio, Sanjay Vaja, Siân Alderton and Sarah Booth, who all work at AstraZeneca’s Macclesfield site at Alderley Park, were accompanied by Sarah’s husband Tom and their two daughters Grace and Lucy, who were keen to help with the toy drive, as well as Molly the therapy dog.

Molly and her owner Siân can often be seen at the hospital, where Molly regularly brightens up the day for staff, patients, and visitors alike.

Sanjay said: “We all live locally and Macclesfield General is our local hospital and we’re keen to support it in any way we can.

“We’ve done a few toy collection drives in the past in support of the Children's Ward and this year we decided that it would great to do it again, so Siân, Sarah and I decided to work together to get the word out among our colleagues, who were wonderfully generous in their response.

Lily Preston, Fundraising and Events Manager at the East Cheshire NHS Trust, said: “We’re so grateful to Sanjay, Siân and Sarah for taking the time out to organise this, and to all their generous colleagues for donating all the wonderful toys and games they dropped off.

“The people who work at AstraZeneca have always been very generous in supporting the Trust, and our colleagues in the wards really appreciate everything they’ve done, and continue to do, to help us.

“I know my colleagues in the Children’s Ward are really grateful for this lovely donation and we’ve no doubt the children on the ward will have lots of fun with all the toys and games.”

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Notes for editors 

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• East Cheshire NHS Trust is the main provider of acute and community health services for people across East Cheshire. The Trust is based at Macclesfield District General Hospital and also manages Congleton War Memorial Hospital and Knutsford and District Community Hospital.  

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• East Cheshire NHS Charity goes above and beyond standard Government funding to make your local NHS that extra special. From supporting staff health and wellbeing to providing toys to brighten up our young patients’ days to making long stay patients feel more at home – our mission is to make a visible difference. You can donate to the charity on JustGiving here.