Spread a Smile

Spread a Smile is dedicated to improving the time spent by seriously ill children in hospital. We provide entertainers for seriously ill children and teenagers who are in hospital, often for prolonged periods of time, with life limiting conditions including cancer and heart, lung and kidney-related illnesses. We take entertainers such as fairies, pirates, childrens characters, musicians, magicians, singers, face painters and poets into paediatric wards, to activity centres and to childrens parties in Great Ormond Street Hospital, University College Hospital, The Royal London Hospital, St Marys Hospital, The Evelina, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Kings College Hospital, The Royal Marsden and Noahs Ark Childrens Hospice. Our aim is to divert their attention away from their treatment, stimulate their minds and to alleviate the boredom and monotony associated with sustained hospital stays. We also extend this work to the siblings of these children, as they are deeply affected...