Music – East London NHS Foundation Trust Choir
#ELFTin1Voice are just like all of you. We’re NHS staff and service users supported by our amazing choir director Leanne Sedin. We are committed to singing together as an amazing way we can share messages of hope, recovery and co-production. We believe in what Ella Fitzgerald said, “the only thing betterthan singing is more singing,” and gosh, the NHS needs more singing!
@ELFTArts
Comedy – Becky Brunning
Becky Brunning is an award-winning comedian, actor and writer. The Funny Women finalist is most well known for playing Lindsay Lucas in Broadchurch. Her Edinburgh fringe show Bloom tackled subjects from feminism to accidental gay marriage to sperm donation, and was named as Number 2 in a list of the Festival’s 10 Hidden Gems by What Culture. You may have recently spotted her in ITV’s A Confession alongside Martin Freeman.
@BeckyBrunning
Poetry – Owen Sheers
Owen Sheers is a novelist, poet and playwright. His BAFTA and Grierson nominated film-poem, The Green Hollow has recently been published by Faber, who also published his BBC film-poem to mark the 70th anniversary of the NHS, To Provide All People.
@owensheers www.owensheers.co.uk
Magicians – Spread a smile
Their mission is spreading smiles to seriously and terminally ill children and teenagers in hospital by providing entertainment including fairies, magicians, face painters,singers, artists, therapy dogs, children’s characters, celebrities and theatre visits. They ensure that visits are personalised to each child they visit by liaising closely with hospital staff and visit over 6,000 bedsides each year!
@SpreadASmileUK www.spreadasmile.org