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A nine-year-old girl continues to bring joy to hospital patients as she donates gifts for a fifth year-in-a-row. For the last five years, Bea Willbond has given birthday and Christmas presents to young patients on the Amazon ward at Peterborough Hospital. She first came up with the idea when a family friend’s daughter spent Christmas day in hospital, but she still got presents on Christmas day that had been donated. Bea’s mum Becky said: “This was the first we’d heard of gifts being donated to children in this way. “We thought it was such a lovely thing to do so we started to take presents into Peterborough City Hospital so that other children would still get presents over Christmas! “Bea would go to a toy store, pick a few things out and we would wrap them. However, when she had birthday parties with her whole class attending, we always found that there were some duplicate presents so we asked Bea if she would like to donate some of her presents to the hospital for Christmas! “She loved the idea and did it every year until her last two birthdays where she simply asked that nobody brought presents for her but kindly donated to the Amazon Children’s Ward.” Continuing with her tradition, she is trying to raise around £500 to donate to the ward to buy the patients presents again this year. Zoe Wilkinson, play services co-ordinator for North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust said: “Bea is an absolute delight – she is so kind, caring and generous and her donations have really gone such a long way to bring Christmas cheer to our young patients who find themselves in hospital during the festive season.” Bea is raising money via a Just Giving page.
