Enterprise Rent-A-Car holds 20th Toy Run

Max Fullam (9) from Newbridge receives a present from Santa, Mrs Claus and helpers as part of the 20th anniversary Enterprise Rent-A-Car Christmas Toy Run in Crumlin Hospital.

For the 20th year in a row, a team of Enterprise Rent-A-Car employees dressed as Santa, his reindeer and elf helpers will again bring joy and a lot of craic to the wards of Crumlin Hospital. The charity initiative, dubbed the ‘Toy Run’, was first started by a group of employees at Christmas-time 1999, very soon after Enterprise was established in Ireland.

Each year since then, employees across the company have fundraised and donated toys that are carefully wrapped, sorted by children’s age and packed in Santa sacks ready to be delivered a couple of days before Christmas to children who have to spend Christmas in hospital.

Enterprise is one of only a small number of companies that are allowed to come into the hospital and to pass along the wards where some of the most seriously ill children get a chance to chat with Santa and receive a lovely Christmas present. The wards are normally out of bounds for all but the ill children, their families and hospital staff which just goes to show how much the hospital authorities value the Enterprise annual Toy Run.

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