Mr & Mrs Smith has launched a Crowdfunder campaign to reward NHS and care home staff with a night away at some of the UK’s top boutique properties.
More than 45 hotels have signed up to support the initiative which offers room nights to NHS staff for just £50 each. The campaign hopes to raise at least £50,000 on Crowdfunder to give 1,000 key workers a night off.
Mr & Mrs Smith is funding the first 100 room nights and won’t take any commission from the initiative, with every penny going to the hotels to cover their basic costs for each stay.
NHS and care home staff can apply by visiting mrandmrssmith.com/nightoff
In early July names will be drawn at random to decide who receives a night away at a UK Smith Hotel.
James and Tamara Lohan, founders of Mr & Mrs Smith, said: “Although pretty much every person and business has been affected in some way by this horrific virus, I think we can all agree that healthcare workers are having a very different experience to the rest of us – something that’s been emphatically recognised by the whole country these past few weeks.
“We’d love to reach our target on Crowdfunder and give them a much-needed break at a Smith hotel – it’s definitely time we looked after them for a change!”
The participating hotels
- 11 Cadogan Gardens, London
- 21212 Restaurant with Rooms, Edinburgh
- Amano, Kent
- The Ampersand Hotel, London
- The Beckford Arms, Wiltshire
- The Bloomsbury, London
- Boskerris Hotel, Cornwall
- The Chequers Inn, Norfolk
- Chewton Glen, Hampshire
- Cliveden, Berkshire
- Como Metropolitan, London
- The Crown, Buckinghamshire
- The Curtain, London
- Dormy House, Cotswolds
- Driftwood Hotel, Cornwall
- Ellenborough Park, Cotswolds
- Escape, Llandudno
- The Fish Hotel, Cotswolds
- Forest Side, Lake District
- Foxhill Manor, Cotswolds
- The Franklin, London
- The Green House, Dorset
- Homewood, Bath
- The Kensington Hotel, London
- Kings Head Hotel, Cotswolds
- Lime Wood, Hampshire
- Lord Poulett Arms, Somerset
- The Lygon Arms, Cotswolds
- Middleton Lodge, Yorkshire
- No.15 Great Pulteney, Bath
- Oddfellows on the Park, Manchester
- The Peacock at Rowsley, Peak District
- The Rose, Kent
- The Royston, Powys
- The Sandy Duck, Cornwall
- St Mawes Hotel, Cornwall
- The Standard, London
- The Swan, Oxfordshire
- The Talbot, Yorkshire
- The Talbot Inn, Somerset
- Thyme, Cotswolds
- Tuddenham Mill, Suffolk
- Vintry & Mercer, London
- Weeke Barton, Devon
- Yorebridge House, Yorkshire
- The Zetter, London
- The Zetter Townhouse Clerkenwell, London
- The Zetter Townhouse Marylebone, London