Volunteers join our Head to Toe charity to wrap 500 presents for patients over Christmas
Nearly 500 presents have been wrapped by kind-hearted volunteers and will be given to patients receiving care from staff at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust this Christmas.
The majority of the presents will be given to older people and those with long-term conditions when they are treated by the Trust’s community nurses over the festive period.
The rest are being distributed to some of CPFT’s wards where older people are receiving inpatient rehabilitation before they can return home.
The presents were wrapped staff from several organisations which have supported the Trust’s Head to Toe charity over the past year including National Gas, Illumina, Turley and CBRE.
Hannah Wysocki, Head of Charity for Head to Toe (far left in picture), said: “We are incredibly grateful to all the colleagues from National Gas, Illumina, Turley and CBRE who gave up their time to come into the Trust and wrap presents for our patients.
“We held two wrapping sessions – one at the Cavell Centre in Peterborough, which houses a number of our mental health inpatient units, and one at Fulbourn Hospital in Cambridge, and everyone who came put in a lot of care and time to ensure the presents were beautifully
wrapped.
“There was Christmas music in the background and everyone enjoyed some mince pies and cake, so the events had a really festive feel.”
For several years Head to Toe has organised presents - which contain a number of donated items including games, books, clothes and skincare products – for nursing staff to give to the elderly and vulnerable patients they treat and care for over the Christmas period.
Hannah added: “For some people, one of our nurses might be their only visitor during Christmas, so it’s really heartening to be able to do something for them so they know they are not alone and that someone is thinking of them.”
To find out more about Head to Toe, to put on a fundraising event or to make a donation visit the charity’s pages of the CPFT website.
CPFT provides community physical health services for older people and adults with long term conditions, mental health services, children community services in Peterborough and learning disability services. The Trust is also renowned for its research and development work and in June 2025, CPFT was awarded Teaching Partner status by the University of Cambridge.
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For more information contact:
Andy Burrows, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Deputy Head of Communications
E communications@cpft.nhs.uk