A group of National Lottery winners – including from Cumbria – have helped transform a garden at Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.
Ian and Sandra Black, of Carlisle, who won £2 million on a National Lottery scratchcard in 2022 and Helen and Derek Garnett, of Ulverston, who won £1 million on Euromillions in 2017 was part of the team of National Lottery winners worth more than £32m, who spent the day planting trees, climbers, grasses, bulbs and evergreens.
The hospital, which has received National Lottery funding, is currently undergoing a multi-million-pound redevelopment to create a world-class healthcare campus.
The piece of land the winners have been helping to transform is situated around the Alder Centre – a bereavement unit. This area can be seen by the thousands of families who visit Alder Hey every year.
It also acts as a base for calls from across the country to the Child Death Helpline.
