See "Paddington" & do some good!

Further to my post of Oct 6 there are still some tickets available for a charity performance of Paddington The Musical at 7 pm on December 14th at the Savoy Theatre. You may remember it’s in aid of an excellent scheme to fund a specially-built barge for off-duty staff at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, one of London’s four major trauma centres. At the moment as many as 160 people have to share a small staff room which offers scant opportunity to rest & recover away from the pressures of emergency care. The fund-raising is being spear-headed by a charity called Caring for Carers, which needs to raise £230,000 by January to unlock a matching grant from Westminster. You can help by making a donation to caringforcarerstrust.co.uk  or get your Paddington tickets (still good seats in the dress circle from £110) by going online at paddingtonbargecharityfundraiser.com. It’s a cracker – & so just right for the run-up to Christmas!