L-r - sister Robyn Barrie, clinical support worker Lesley Bucknall and sister Rebekah Flight with some of the donations SCHOOLCHILDREN across the Dudley borough have been getting creative and putting their pens to paper by making and donating written Christmas cards to give to patients in hospital on Christmas Day. After the success of its Inpatient Christmas Card Appeal last year, The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust has been reaching out to schools across the borough, asking them to donate handwritten Christmas cards that will shared with patients having to spend Christmas at Russells Hall Hospital. Church of the Ascension Primary School, Sutton School, Pegasus Academy and Crestwood School and Sixth Form have all been getting involved, bringing the total number of donated cards to more than 1,000.