The team from Honey I’m Home, a bespoke furniture manufacturer based in Leigh has visited North Manchester General Hospital’s neonatal unit today giving out their first ‘Honey Care Packs’ to staff on the unit, including hand-made silk reusable facemasks.
The facemasks include a filter, are fully washable and reusable and are suitable for using going to and from work and if out and about in the community. The Honey Care Pack also includes pink hand gel, pink gloves, vitamins, chocolate, beauty products and a full £300 voucher to spend in store (not against higher priced items).
The team from Honey I’m Home design and manufacture bespoke luxury sofas and furnishings and have a long list of celebrity customers including Tyson Fury, Manchester rapper Aitch plus Danni and Danny Dyer. The talented on-site seamstresses designed and made the facemasks and care packs when their business was forced to close down temporarily due to COVID-19.
It takes a day to create 20 facemasks and the team plan to make 20 weekly drops in total while the UK is still in lockdown.
Honey I’m Home’s CEO Maddison Santamaria, aged 27 from Manchester, wanted to give back something to people working on Greater Manchester’s health frontlines and key workers.
The neonatal unit team in North Manchester General was chosen to launch the campaign as they saved the lives of Ms Santamaria’s twin daughters who were born there prematurely three years ago. The twins were born nine weeks early and had to stay on ventilators in intensive care for a number of weeks.
Honey I’m Home would like to hear from people wishing to nominate other health organisations and key workers to receive Honey Care Packs. To get in touch, people are asked to message through the company’s Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/__honeyimhome__/
