AN INSPIRATIONAL Redditch mother is ensuring poorly children who are spending Easter in hospital will have at least one reason to smile this weekend.
Jude Prosser is making sure youngsters stuck in Birmingham’s Children Hospital and the town’s Alexandra Hospital over the Easter holidays have as egg-cellent a time as they possibly can – by donating more than 1,000 chocolate eggs.
The kind-hearted gesture is one that Jude has been making since 2014, when she delivered 449 eggs to children in hospital.
And it’s a cause close to her heart. Inspiration struck after Jess, Jude’s daughter, was admitted to hospital as a child with a brain tumour.
Thankfully Jess, now 26-years-old, made a full recovery but Jude told The Standard that simple gestures such as an egg at Easter meant so much when they were in the hospital.
She added: “Whilst we were in there, for months at a time, every small gesture such as an Easter egg or a selection box at Christmas was much appreciated.
“Little things like that meant so much.”
This year Jude was hoping to collect 500 eggs but thanks to the power of social media, mainly through a Facebook page created by Jude last year called Redditch Freebies, she has been inundated with donations. The total figure now stands at around 1,100 Easter eggs.
She said: “We will be donating to Birmingham’s Children Hospital and ward one at the Alex and in the A&E department.”
Jude, an official registered fund raiser for the Birmingham Children’s Hospital, hopes to make the event an annual one and extends her thanks to those that donated eggs, colouring books and Easter teddies for children who cannot eat chocolate due to dietary requirements.
Thanks also go to Astwood Bank-based Colour Correction who volunteered one of their vans to transport the chocolate eggs to the hospitals.
