Thank you from Spread a Smile

With their regular scheduled hospital visits suspended due to Covid 19, Spread a Smile was one of the first children's charities to launch their digital entertainment services and online art initiatives.

However, many children in hospitals do not have access to their own digital devices, meaning access to online entertainment during extensive treatment and long hospital stays is extremely limited.

In early 2021, Bregal gifted a grant to the charity which was used to purchase 41 iPads which were then distributed across its NHS hospital partners including; Great Ormond Street, University College, St Mary's, St George's, The Royal Brompton, Evelina Children's, King's College, Royal National Orthopaedic, and Whittington hospitals.

The iPads are now being used by play specialist teams and children in hospitals to access Spread a Smiles' services including; Smile TV, virtual visits from entertainers, online art initiatives and much more. With the use of a management system, the iPads can be monitored to ensure they are used safely and for the correct purpose.  The iPads have helped spread so many smiles to seriously ill and hospitalised children and we can't thank Bregal enough for their most generous donation - without you, this would not have been possible.