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16 Nov 2017 – This Christmas hundreds of older people will have to stay in hospital because they are not well enough to go home. Could you donate a present to help make someone’s Christmas special?

Once again UHL Volunteers Services is joining forces with Age UK Leicestershire & Rutland and Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust to encourage local people to donate presents for our older patients too poorly to leave hospital this Christmas.

Following the success of this campaign in previous years, we want you to help us make Christmas Day special again this year.

How to donate
It’s really easy! Just print off a gift tag for the campaign (link below), before attaching it to a small gift bag filled with goodies! You don’t need to spend a lot of money to make someone smile – we suggest items add up to no more than £10. Full details below on our poster. Please put our poster up in your place of work. Please place your gifts into a gift bag, do not wrap up the gifts.

We have listed a few recommended items, plus items we are unable to accept. We would appreciate it if these lists could be followed as it helps our Volunteers when they check and distribute the gifts.

Where to donate
You can take your gift bag to the main receptions at one of our three hospitals – Glenfield, the General and Royal Infirmary – and any of the Age UK shops, resource centres and offices across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland will accept gifts for our elderly patients.

Last donations accepted in the three main hospital receptions and the AGE UK shops and resource centres on Thursday 14 December 2017.

Suggested gifts

Lip balms, hand lotions, foot lotions, hand wipes, Soaps, body wash or deodorant, Slipper socks or bed socks, Chocolates, biscuits, sweets, cereal bars, Halal / Indian sweets (not homemade), Cordials, original, herbal or flavoured tea-bags, hot chocolate or coffee sachets, Pens, pencils, notepads, notelets, cards, books and puzzle books

To prevent infection: we will only be able to accept new items in their original packaging and gifts placed in a gift bag and not wrapped in paper. All purchased food products must be in a sealed package and still in date.

Unfortunately we are not able to accept edible homemade gifts (cakes, sweets etc), electrical items, used books, DVDs or VHS tapes; denominational or religious material.

Rock music is set to return to Radio Fox.

From this Saturday (27th July) Richard Leatherland will be hosting The Leather & Denim Rock Show.  The new programme will bring a rounded mix of classic rock just right for a Saturday night, including a featured group, album and year amongst other treats.

Richard was the regular stand in presenter on the long running Classic Rock Show, which ended earlier this year after Pete Bracey and Dave Rowe decided to take a break from presenting.  He’s also no stranger to our Saturday line up, having been a regular presenter on our Saturday morning request show.

The Leather & Denim Rock Show can be heard between 8 & 10pm this Saturday and on 3rd August before it moves to its regular start time of 7pm from 10th August.  Our popular Dancezone programme moves to a new time of 9pm from 10th August with Joe Shikely continuing to play classic floor fillers from the last 25 years.

Did you know that you can listen to Radio Fox even when you’re not in hospital?

Radio Fox is now streaming via the FREE Tunein radio app, which is available on smartphones or via your computer.  Once you’re on Tunein, search for Radio Fox and once you see our Foxy logo, you’ll know you’ve got the right station!

Our streaming service means that friends & relatives can also hear songs they’ve requested for loved ones in hospital – if you’d like a song playing for someone you know in the Royal or Glenfield, go to the ‘Presenters & Shows’ drop down list at the top of this page and select ‘Your Radio Fox’ – you’ll find an easy to complete form there.

For further details on our streaming service check out the ‘listen live’ section elsewhere on this website.