Who Are SSNAP?

SSNAP (Supporting Sick Newborns & their Parents) is a charity based at Oxfords John Radcliffe Hospital. 

 

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 What do they do?

In the UK, 1 in 10 babies need specialist care at birth. SSNAP Supports sick & premature babies and their families in the Newborn Care Unit at The John Radcliffe Hospital.​

Instead of getting to know your baby as a family in the first very important days of their lives, your thrown into a world of medication, wires, incubators & medical tests. 

While your baby has specialist treatment & care at The John Radcliffe, they provide emotional, medical, financial & informational support to help you through the trauma & major changes in your family. 

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They champion the right of all sick & premature babies treated in Oxford receive the best care. They do this by supporting families, purchasing life saving equipment & enabling life changing research and training.

 

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How am I helping?

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From a young age, my nan taught me how to knit. I loved the finished results of what I had made and knitting itself was good for my mental health, but I had no purpose to knit until I happen to come across a post by SSNAP asking for blankets, cardigans, booties, hats etc for their baby unit. 

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So from there I started knitting blankets, Cardigans, booties, Hats & baby sets so I can take them up to The John Radcliffe for them to use in the unit. But I realised I could knit teddies/toys and they looked amazing when they were completed, so I also sell toys, blankets etc, with help from some amazing clients and my nan, and any funds raised all go to SSNAP to continue the amazing work they do. 

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Take a look below at some of the items my nan & I have

 made and items that have been donated..