Spreading
Love
Through
Comfort
We are a UK-based charity (registration number 1185739), which collects donations of brand new pyjamas, from the public, which we then donate to hospitals, hospices and women’s refuges across the UK. These are then given to poorly or less fortunate children who are inpatients.
About Children’s Hospital Pyjamas
Why We Started
Children’s Hospital Pyjamas started in November 2010 when the founder’s daughter was an in-patient in the hospital. She received a brand new scooter that had been gifted to the hospital from another family of a poorly child.
Our founder decided, she too needed to give back and when they were discharged from the hospital, she asked friends and family to donate brand-new toys so she could gift them to her local hospital. After three years of donating toys, a switch was made to donating pyjamas, as a far more practical option. Year after year, the collection has grown and so has the team. In celebration of our tenth collection, we registered as a charity.
With your support, we have had our best year yet! In 2023 we collected 22,128 pairs of pyjamas and donated them to 238 different establishments up and down the country. So we are extremely proud to announce that our grand total for 2024 is 28,850!!
We gifted 28,850 pairs of brand-new children’s pyjamas.
6722 increase in pyjamas on last year’s total.
56 new establishments. Check out our donation list page to show a list of establishments that have received a donation from this year’s appeal.
How to Donate
Donating could not be any simpler. You have a number of options, these include:
- Searching our Postcode Finder (available from September to November) and dropping your donations to us!
- Purchase from our AMAZON wishlist and have them sent directly to us
- Send them to our head office (Challenge House – Suite 3-5, 616 Mitcham Road, Croydon, CR0 3AA)
- Make a single or regular donation.
- Sign up for EasyFundraising and use our account (see below)
- Hold an event and donate via GoFundMe.
Join Us As An Area Co-Ordinator for 2024!
An Area Co-Ordinator works within their local area, spreading awareness of our charity and asking friends, family, businesses, schools and members of the public to donate monies or brand new pyjamas to us. These PJs are collected throughout the year and stored by our coordinators, although our official appeal begins on 1st September.
Get in touch today to find out more and get involved!
Our Recipients for Children’s Hospital Pyjamas
Every year we take your donations and provide them to hundreds of wards, units and women’s refuges including Alder Hey Hospital, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital, King’s College Hospital, My Shining Star Children’s Cancer Charity, Ronald McDonald Houses, Royal Marsden Hospital and Shooting Star Children’s Hospice. You can view our full list of recipients here.