Donations
Since 1980, Variety Express has raised over £130,000 to help local community charities and causes
2024: £6000
£3000 - Motor Neurone Disease Association & £3000 - Young Carers’ Crew
2023: £7000
Motor Neurone Disease Association
2022: £2000
£1000 - Safer Places & £1000 - Heathlands Animal Sanctuary
2019: £4500
£2250 - Feed Up, Warm Up & £2250 - Above & Beyond Cancer Foundation
2018: £3200
£1600 - Lifegeta & £1600 - Phase
2017: £3100
£1600 - Howard Garden Social Centre & £1500 - Keech Hospice Care
2016: £3000
£1500 - NHDSA & £1500 - Angels Support Group
2015: £2000
£1000 - Crossroads Care & £1000 - Herts MS Therapy Centre
2014: £2000
£1000 - St John’s School & £1000 - The Avenue
2013: £2000
£1000 - Herts Women’s Centre & £1000 - Hitchin PHAB
2011: £1800
£900 - Herts Air Ambulance
£900 - North Herts Sports Disability Association
2010: £2000
£1000 - Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association
£1000 - Libury Hall
2009: £2250
£750 - The Garden House Hospice
£750 - The Scout Association
£750 - Helping Hands
2008: £2000
£1000 - Stepping Stones Stroke Club
£1000 - Home Farm Trust
2007: £2000
£1000 - Sue Ryder Care - Special Beds Appeal
£1000 - Macmillian Nurses
2006: £2000
£1000 - St John Ambulance - Local Brigade
£1000 - North Herts MS Therapy Centre
2005: £3000
£750 - Leisure Direct
£750 - Womens Counselling Unit
£750 - Libre Support Group
£750 - Lister Special Care Baby Unit - SCBU
2004: £3000
£750 - Garden House Hospice
£750 - North Herts riding for the disabled
£750 - Families with diabetes
£750 - Stevenage Riding for the disabled
2003: £3000
£750 - Keech Cottage Hospice
£750 - Mount Vernon Day Lodge
£750 - Macmillan Day Nurses
£750 - Home Farm Trust
2002: £4250
£1000 - Lions Club ‘Message in a bottle’ Appeal
£1000 - Baldock Minibus Appeal
£1000 - Letchworth Hospice
£1000 - Elizabeth & Victoria Court Support Group
£250 - Addenbrookes Hospital
2001: £4000
£1000 - North Herts & Stevenage Headway Group
£1000 - Hitchin Physiotherapy Department
£1000 - Grown Up Congenital Heart Patients Association
£1000 - The Royal British Legion (Letchworth Branch)
2000: £4000
£1000 - Plastic Surgery Ward Lister Hospital
£1000 - Special Care Baby Unit (Luton & Dunstable Hospital)
£1000 - Herts Association for the blind
£1000 - Ashwell Ward, Lister Hospital
1999: £6000
£1500 - Stevenage and North Herts REACT
£1500 - Libre Support Group (North Herts)
£1500 - Herts Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre
£1500 - Lonsdale School, Stevenage
1998: £4500
£1500 - Alzheimers Society, North Herts Group
£1500 - Woolgrove School, Letchworth
£1500 - Leyden House, Stevenage
1997: £5000
£1250 - North Herts riding for the disabled
£1250 - Holiday Respite Care for children
£1250 - Ear, Nose & Throat department, Lister Hospital
£1250 - North Herts Victim Support TV & Video - Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic, Lister Hospital
1996: £5000
£1250 - Intensive Care Unit, Lister Hospital
£1250 - Ashwell Ward, Lister Hospital
£1250 - North Herts Association for Crohn’s Disease
£1250 - Letchworth Multiple Sclerosis Group
1995: £3000
£1000 - Mulberry Bush Appeal
£1000 - North Herts Drugsline
£1000 - Libre Club, Stevenage
1994: £4000
£1250 - North Herts ‘Flying Doctors’
£1250 - Lister Hospital Special Care Baby Unit
£1250 - St John Ambulance, Letchworth
£200 - Stevenage Multiple Sclerosis Society
1993: £4000
£2000 - A&E Department, Lister Hospital
£2000 - Garden House Hospice
1992: £5000
£1250 - North Herts Talking Newspapers for the blind
£1250 - North Herts Midwives
£1250 - Lonsdale School, Stevenage
£1250 - Local Mencap Societies
1991: £6000
£2500 - North Herts ‘Flying Doctors’
£2500 - Lister Hospital Cot Death Appeal
£1000 - Hitchin Cheshire Home Appeal
1990: £2500
£1000 - North Herts ‘Flying Doctors’
£250 - L.O.L.A Appeal
£250 - Letchworth Arthritis Society
£250 - The Orchards, Letchworth
£250 - Hitchin & Letchworth Mencap
£250 - Greenside School
£250 - Earnest Gardener Day Centre
1989: £5000
£2500 - Lister Hospital Renal Unit
£2500 - North Herts Hospice Appeal
1988: £4500
£3000 - North Herts ‘Flying Doctors’
£1500 - Hitchin Hospital
1987: £4500
£2000 - A&E Department, Lister Hospital
£1000 - Butts Close School, Hitchin
£250 - Ward 15A, Lister Hospital
£250 - Friends of Baldock Ambulance
£250 - Elmside Nursing Home
£250 - Nightingale House Day Centre
£250 & video - The Orchards, Letchworth
£250 - Letchworth Centre for Homeopathy and Alternative Medicine
1986: £3000
£2000 - North Herts Talking Newspapers For The Blind
£1000 - North West Herts Area Health Authority
1985: £4000
£2000 - Hitchin Samaritans
£2000 - Lister Hospital Playroom Appeal
1984: £2000
£2000 - Lister Hospital Cancer Scanner Appeal
1983: £1500
£1500 - Letchworth Branch of A.R.M.S
1982: £700
£700 - Letchworth Hospital
1981: £600
£600 - Stoke Mandeville Hospital
1980: £200
£100 - Baldock Senior Citizens
£100 - Baldock Nursery School