Yo Ho Hospital Christmas Fair 2023 – indoors

Access to good quality health services is a determinant of health, so too are positive relationships with friends and communities. The Christmas Fair at South Petherton Community Hospital certainly showed people sharing the best of times. A BIG THANK YOU to the wonderful team who organised the event with so much energy, creativity and commitment!

Singers, writers, dancers, stall holders, NHS staff, visitors, volunteers, the League of Friends and more…
santa is sitting in a chair with a parcel in his hand for the small child in front of him
Children visited Santa across the afternoon and loved having a chat and receiving gifts.
Cllr Adam Dance opened the event and presented the LoF Chair with a donation from a kind supporter.
Singers wearing black are performing in the hospital
SomerSingers Acappella Group enhanced the festivities with well loved Christmas tunes.
Women wearing long sparkling dresses as they dance, onlookers
Eastern Promise Dance Troupe entertained the crowd as they shimmied, twirled and sparkled with gusto!
The ladies created quite a stir and many onlookers were rapt throughout their spectacular performance.
two ladies smiling at camera
If Matron [right] felt like she was in a surreal fantasy rather than her hospital, it didn’t show!
woman holds a sparkly stick over wine
Event organiser, Shirley, enjoyed trying her hand at being a wine diviner – sparkly rod essential.
Happy visitors!
people
The annual raffle was a huge success and the tickets flew off the sheets.
a display of raffle prizes laid out on the hospital re
Raffle prizes were generously donated from all sorts of local people and businesses.
Hand made festive tasty delights!

Well, this photo essay barely scratches the surface of the activities that took place. In the next article we’ll focus on the fantastic experience that visitors had outside the hospital!

All of this was made possible by the amazing work of the League of Friends’ Trustees, especially Jaine Thorne, collaborating with hospital staff (thank you Shirley) and of course the wonderful contributions of the performers and all of those who volunteered their time to set-up, run stalls, draw the raffle, welcome visitors and answer any questions and much more.

A BRILLIANT DAY!