Thousands of East Lothian keyworkers and care home residents spoiled with Easter surprise

Kindhearted East Lothian locals brought thousands of easter eggs to care homes, hospitals, hospices, and respite facilities for people with special support needs this weekend.

Lee Stewart, who has been the funeral director of Co-op Funeralcare in Tranent for 15 years organised the event, reaching out to a number of businesses in the area asking them to donate eggs

She told Edinburgh Live that she was blown away by generosity after a whopping 2,800 eggs were donated and delivered to key workers, hospital patients, care home residents and other vulnerable people in the local authority area.

There were also eggs left over which were sold today in Haddington raising an impressive £920 to help support a dementia garden in Tranent.

Nurses and healthcare workers line up with their Easter eggs (Handout)

Locals were delighted to receive a chocolate egg (Handout)

Lee Stewart told Edinburgh Live: "Because of lockdown many people have been isolated with no visitors so we just wanted to put a smile on people's faces.

"I reached out to businesses who were so generous donating both eggs and cash and then we delivered them to every care home in East Lothian as well as local hospitals, hospices, day centres and a special needs play scheme.

"It took two days between Thursday and Friday and my sister was dressed as an Easter Bunny so she would stand at the window of care homes to get photos taken with residents.

“All of the nurses and patients were totally over the moon and we had a local woman named Grace Hogan bake truffles and deliver them to nursing stations."

A care home resident at Lammermuir House receives a visit from the Easter Bunny (Lammermuir House Care Home)

The full list of businesses that donated eggs and money to the cause were:

Iain Wood Engineering

Prentice of Haddington

7plus7 Construction Ltd

Cut Price Timber

Nettie's Tranent

Advanced Hot Tubs and Swim Spas

Radio Saltire

Bisset & Steedman

East Coast FM Scotland

Adon Davie Racing #38

ACs Taxis & Minibuses

Dino's

Farmfoods

The remainder of the eggs were sold to raise money for a Dementia garden (Handout)

After receiving thousands of eggs, there was still some leftover at the end of the Easter event and so Lee decided to use them for a good cause.

Today, the remainder of the eggs were sold to the local community in Haddington raising £920. The money will be donated to Dementia Friendly Tranent's Garden Of Reflection.