Snowflakes
This year, businesses, schools, and community groups from across Sheffield and South Yorkshire came together to make our snowflake display truly magical. With every snowflake now sponsored, your incredible support is helping to transform lives at Sheffield Children’s.
Celebrating 20 years of snowflakes!
This year, we’re celebrating the twentieth anniversary of our iconic snowflake display, and thanks to your incredible generosity, all our snowflakes for 2024 have been sponsored!
Since it began in 2004, this award-winning initiative has raised over £2.5m for Sheffield Children’s, making a real difference to the lives of young patients and their families. Your contributions ensure that the incredible team at Sheffield Children’s has the resources they need to provide the best possible care.
Looking for ways to continue supporting Sheffield Children’s this Christmas?
- Make a donation.
- Join our festive fundraisers like Glow in the Park or Christmas Jumper Day!
Keep your eyes peeled for next year’s snowflake appeal – we’d love to see your name sparkling in lights in 2025!
A look back on our 2024 snowflake switch-on
In 2024 we celebrated the 20th anniversary of our Snowflake Appeal and thanks to incredible supporters we raised a record-breaking £434,000 to support Sheffield Children’s! This supported the Charity's £ 2 million fundraising appeal to build the new National Centre for Child Health Technology, a world-class research and technology centre at The Olympic Legacy Park that will be run by Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. Take a look to see how magical our switch-on was in 2024!
Sponsor a snowflake on our digital Children's Hospital
If you would like to support our appeal this Christmas but haven't been able to sponsor a physical snowflake, why not get a snowflake on our digital website? Donate £30 and see your name up on our digital hospital, spreading some festive cheer! Sponsorship comes with a digital certificate, so could make the perfect gift for someone special. Give back this Christmas with our digital snowflakes!
Snowflake collection tins
If your business, school or community group is unable to sponsor a snowflake at this time, you could still collect towards our snowflake appeal and support Sheffield Children's this Christmas. Get in touch with our team to request a snowflake collection tin - every penny counts!
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Testimonials
Lesley Wainwright, Chair, Gripple Foundation
"We’re delighted to continue our support of the wonderful care given by The Children’s Hospital Charity in Sheffield. We are a local company and the hospital has provided superb care for many of our colleagues' children over the years. The snowflake appeal is a lovely way for us to be able to show our gratitude and appreciation for our city’s outstanding children’s hospital."
Adam Gillet, Penistone Grammar School
"We are proud every year to support the incredible Sheffield Children’s Hospital as it has supported so many of our students, staff and wider community. We love fundraising for the snowflake, our students get so involved and come up with some amazing ideas - from bike rides to head shaving and everything in-between! Being at the light switch on at the start of December is the highlight of our year - seeing the difference we have made and hopefully making a brighter Christmas for those inside."
Mark Kanaris, Tesco Store Manager, Tesco Infirmary Road
"At Tesco we are extremely proud to support the snowflake appeal. Year upon year we have felt humbled to see the tremendous difference our support makes to the lives of the young patients at the hospital and their families. It brings our City and the wider regions together, creating a real sense of shared purpose and true community spirit. It’s a spectacular moment when we see those amazing snowflakes light up the winter sky for all to see. One of those moments you will share with your children and grandchildren for years to come."