This afternoon John Thomson turned on the Christmas lights at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital.
He also presented our charity with a cheque for £20,000 he recently won on ITV1's The Chase.
John Thomson said: "Not being a marathon running kind of guy, I thought it would be in my best interests to utilise my true strength, mainly my intellect which paid off very nicely on ITV's The Chase. It was a genuine highlight of my TV career."
Children from the hospital presented John with some thank you cards they had made earlier.
He has been a valued patron of the Children's Hospital charity for several years and was the voiceover for the first series of our 'Children's Hospital' series.
