The Masks for NHS Heroes crowdfunder

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If you clapped the other night for our NHS workers, would you consider sparing a couple of pounds for this?

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/masks4nhsheroes

We’re raising £500,000 to provide Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to protect healthcare workers against the Coronavirus while caring for sick patients

Please Help Us - to Help NHS staff - to Help You and Your Loved ones

We are a group of colleagues (doctors in hospitals and GP), who have set up this initiative to source PPE for those who need it most in our fight against Coronavirus (COVID-19). Our names are Dr Mona Barzin (GP), Dr Salaj Masand (Medicine, Ashford Hospital, Kent), Mr Ravi Visagan (Neurosurgery, King's College Hospital, London) & Mr Nav Kumar.

I saw it posted on the live thread on the Guardian website at 10.41
www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2020/mar/27/uk-coronavirus-live-rough-sleepers-nhs-applause-covid-19-latest-news

twitter.com/hashtag/Masks4NHSHeroes?src=hashtag_click

Also you might like to look at this: Care Workers’ Charity launches £1m coronavirus hardship appeal for care staff in an ‘impossible situation’
Care workers are facing hunger and hardship as they go into self-isolation, a charity has warned.

Donations to the appeal can be made via the Care Workers’ Charity’s website or a JustGiving page.
www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/26/self-isolating-care-workers-debt-hunger-warns-charity

If you know of other good fundraisers please do post them.

How sad that we have come to this.

I've just seen this one too, Meals for the NHS

www.mealsforthenhs.com/

and their twitter account is here twitter.com/MealsForTheNHS

Providing front line workers at London's NHS Hospitals with free meals through the COVID crisis.

Help buy meals for the NHS staff fighting COVID-19
After 18-hour shifts trying to save our lives from COVID-19, NHS Hospital Staff are faced with canteens that shut at 5pm.

More than £250k raised to feed NHS workers
More than £250,000 has been raised to help provide free hot meals for NHS staff, less than seven days after a campaign was launched by a small group of friends.
Meals for the NHS was just an idea last Sunday evening but has since provided 4,000 meals to hospitals with tens of thousands more expected soon.
"We were talking about how a group of friends who are NHS workers are just not eating properly," Andrew Muir Wood, one of the founders, told the PA news agency.
The campaign says workers are faced with canteens that shut at 5pm, and a surgeon from a Covid-19 intensive care unit told the group on Monday: "At weekends, overnight and evenings there is virtually nothing to eat except a crap vending machine with crisps and chocolate. Seriously."
"It's hard for anyone to operate on an empty stomach let alone people trying to save lives, so we got together trying to work out how we could solve that," Mr Muir Wood added.
Co-ordinating their work online amid the UK lockdown, the friends came up with the idea to send meals from local food makers into hospitals.
The group initially invested their own money to provide the meals - contributing around £2,000 between five people.

just bumping this up for anyone who hasn't seen it

Hospices are in trouble due to lack of donations and medical and cleaning products.

www.itv.com/news/2020-03-28/hospices-issue-dire-warning-of-closures-as-coronavirus-sparks-cutbacks-in-end-of-life-care/

Hospices are warning they could face closure within months unless the government steps in to help them through the coronavirus crisis.
Hospice UK have told ITV News hospices are down £70 million this month alone, and a number of end of life care providers have already had to close homes and cut respite care.
“This is nothing like we’ve ever been though before,” said Tracey Bleakley, CEO of Hospice UK.
“We are not apart of the health system. If a hospice becomes insolvent, it goes.
“The shops we’ve closed, we’re still having to pay rent. The events we’ve cancelled, we still have to pay out all the costs and it has meant fundraising has fallen off a cliff.
“(On average) 70 per cent of our funding comes from public donations and a lot of that income has gone overnight. Hospices are about £70 million a month down because of this crisis.
“Hospices are an essential part of the response to the Covid crisis, because the more people we can take out of hospital and look after either in a hospice or at a home, it frees up NHS beds for people to be looked after.”