Gainsborough hospital joins the Teddies for Loving Care charity scheme

Gainsborough’s John Coupland Hospital is the latest to have joined the Freemasons’ Teddies for Loving Care  charity scheme.

With more than four million bears already given to comfort children going through traumatic times in their lives the latest batch of bears will support staff in offering treatment.

Thanks to the Freemason-funded charity’s Lincolnshire co-ordinator Graham Cadel the bears are offered in Lincoln, Boston, Skegness, Louth, Grantham, and Scunthorpe. “And now we’ve added Gainsborough we’re ahead of my ambition to deliver bears to Diana Princes of Wales Hospital in Grimsby, and to the Citizens’ Advice Bureau in Boston,” said Graham.

He added: “It’s hard to underestimate the positive impact of these little bears can have not only on the children themselves, but also their families and the hospital staff who give them. For the children they’re a simply source of comfort, and often become favourite toys. For families, there’s comfort in knowing that complete strangers – the Freemasons – understand the difficulties they face at that moment in their lives, and want to help. And to the hospital staff they can make it simpler to give treatment to a potentially-distressed child. Our bears have been stitched, scanned, injected, and bandaged by staff to remove some of the fear children may face.

“The bears all mean so much to their new owners. In on instance a girl suffering severe spinal injuries was in hospital for weeks. When she was discharged all she took away was her Teddies for Loving Care bear. Little things can mean such a lot, especially when they’re little bears. You can’t put a price on something like that.”

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