A COUPLE who scooped £1 million on the National Lottery have joined other winners to help out at the hospital that saved their son’s life.
Ceri and Paul Roscoe-Roberts, who won on the EuroMillions last year, joined 21 other National Lottery winners at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool on Tuesday to help out with some gardening on-site.
Mrs Roscoe-Roberts, 43, from Conwy, said the hospital had previously saved the life of her youngest son, now 16, when his pushchair collapsed with him inside and she had to resuscitate him.
The mother-of-five said: “Without Alder Hey, my youngest would not be here today.
“The hospital does so much incredible work and I am truly honoured – thanks to my National Lottery win – to be back here today giving something back in terms of my time and contributing to a project which really will benefit thousands of people for many years to come.”
The group of winners, worth a combined total of £32 million, spent the day planting borders alongside a new walkway around the Alder Centre bereavement unit.
The hospital is currently undergoing multi-million-pound redevelopment to create a world-class healthcare campus, where all aspects of children’s health can be addressed in one dedicated space.
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Fiona Ashcroft, chief executive at Alder Hey Children’s Charity, said: “We have been extremely grateful to have the lottery winners on site – they have certainly done an excellent job and played a very important part in developing our Children’s Health Campus here at Alder Hey.”
Ceri and Paul, a member of Conwy Golf Club, won the windfall last November.
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Ceri said at the time: "There was just something telling me when I woke on Saturday morning that I had won big on The National Lottery.
“It was the strangest feeling ever. I picked up my phone and looked at my emails and there was one saying there was news about my ticket.
“I logged into my National Lottery account and there was the confirmation, I was indeed a millionaire.
“I had to pinch myself as I thought I was somehow in the middle of a dream and none of this was actually real.”
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