Queens Medical Centre
Nottingham
The Foundation has already helped to fund a reading area at the hospital for its young patients. This reading area will offer some quiet purposeful distraction and entertainment, reducing stress levels and frustration. We have also provided funding for a bereavement service within the trust to support families, and essential support service for the hospital. More recently we have provided funding to enable Queens Medical Centre to provide an adolescent room, where these children can go and enjoy facilities & activities suited to teenagers.

University Hospital’s of Leicester
NHS trust
The Foundation has already helped to fund a high-dependency bed including state of the art monitoring equipment, enabling better care.

The Foundation has also providing funding to create play areas that provide resources and toys for infants to adolescents so that children are welcomed, in a non threatening environment and can engage in play while they are waiting and are treated and helped provide mulitsensory equipment and art workshops.

Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, Belfast.
The Foundation has already helped to fund a new sophisticated Gyrus PK Generator which is used during surgery, and will reduce surgical trauma and inpatients stay, resulting in enhanced recovery.

We have also provided funding for the creation of a multisenasory room centred around the stimulation of the senses- sight, sound, touch, movement and smell. The multi-sensory environment will support interaction, discovery and communication. We are also supporting the creation of a DVD to help explain what the hospital does as well as introduce the patients and their families to key people within the ‘children’s’. It will show them areas like wards, theatres, and other relevant parts of the hospital which will help to minimise inevitable anxiety. As children play with DVD’s in their home environment, similar play experience during their hospital stay would be a very therapeutic and happy distraction.

Children’s Hospital for Wales.
The Foundation has already helped to fund part of the arts project for the new Children’s Hospital for Wales, which will ensure that the new hospital has a warm, welcoming and child friendly environment.

Oxford Children’s Hospital.
Over the past few years the Foundation has supported the building of the New Oxford Children’s Hospital which opened in January 2007.

St Oswalds Children’s Hospice, Newcastle
The Foundation has already helped to fund the landscaping of the garden at St Oswalds Hospice for Children. This area will have wheelchair accessible paths and will provide a quiet, restful and attractive environment for all children and their families using the Hospice.

More recently the Foundation has provided funds to purchase an emergency generator, as most of the patients at St Oswalds rely on life supporting equipment, back up energy is essential for these children and the efficient running of the hospice.

Manchester Children’s Hospital.
The Foundation has already helped to fund a new play and activity centre to meet the needs of children, but particularly teenagers at Booth Hall Children’s Hospital. The new centre will have a multi-sensory room, a specialised playroom, computer room and a teenager lounge and activity area.

We are also providing funding to help create a purpose-built stand-alone building next to the Children’s Hospital for family accommodation. The stand-alone facility will mostly benefit the families of long-stay patients and those families traveling furthest for treatment.

Acorn’s Children’s Hospice, Birmingham.
The Foundation has already helped to fund a comprehensive package of care and support for one family for a whole year. This includes respite care for the child, practical and emotional support for parents and siblings, counselling, and support at home through the community care team.

We have also provided funding to create a fun and exciting programme of activities and outings for the life-limited children and young people who come to the children’s hospices for respite care. It is very important to the hospice that the children are not just passive receivers of care whilst they are there. The ethos is always to enable the children to make the most of the short time that they have, and to do things that they are not able to do at home. Many of the children are very poorly and very disabled, which means that parents are often not able to do activities with them as they are worried about medication, or they have transport or other practical problems.

Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital.
The Foundation has already helped to fund a new outdoor play and picnic area at the new hospital. The area will be used for both recreational purposes and also as part of treatment and rehabilitation for patients.

We have also providing funding for a family support worker. Parents enjoy support on both a practical and emotional level. They have a friendly face to chat to when life gets a bit difficult and they have someone to show them the facilities to ensure they have everything they need. The family support worker also takes aware some of the worry from parents prior to their visit.

Naomi House Children's Hospice Winchester.
The Foundation has already helped to fund a new assisted bathroom installation at the hospice, which will be enormously helpful to patients and staff.

We have also provided funding for the past 2 years from play equipment and art materials – play is a great distraction and an activity where these children can express themselves freely.

Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh
Funding towards a new family accommodation facility which will enable the hospital to accommodate more parents who need to stay near and be with their children at this stressful time.

Every year over 9000 parents and siblings use these facilities. On top of this there are approximately 50 parents sleeping by the bedside of their sick child every night. These parents have access to the accommodation for a shower and to make themselves a cup of tea in peace and quiet away from the hustle and bustle of the wards.

Having helped to provided these areas of accommodation Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Foundation will be funding a House Keeping Service which is provided 7 days a week and ensures that there is always a welcoming face and clean rooms at all times.

Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool
The Foundation has already helped to fund a child and family information room at the hospital, which will improve the quality of information for parents, families and carers. The centre will have a library, browsing area, research area, interview room and activity room and will be able to offer advice and information on a range of topics such as hospital services, medical conditions, health promotion, research and development, support groups etc.

We have also helped to fund a programme of art and music therapy.

Butterwick Children’s Hospice, Stockton–on–Tees
The Foundation has already helped to fund a new member of staff to ensure the improvement of symptom control and the ability to care for children at the end of their lives to the highest level as they deserve.

The Foundation has also provided funding for a family support worker to help families with any worries and concerns and to provide practical support. The family support worker will also spend time with the children helping them to come to terms with the many issues and concerns they have. In particular issues such as, when they will die, worries they have over how their parents, brothers and sisters and wider family will cope and making their own funeral preparations and working with siblings to create a scrap book or memory box. In which they collect memories of their poorly brother or sister.

The Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, Brighton
The Foundation continues to make a contribution to fund an extensive art programme in the new Children’s hospital, to ensure the new hospital has a welcoming and child friendly environment.

The hospital is due to open in June.

Sheffield Children’s Hospital.
The Foundation has already helped to fund a Gamma Camera which is a state of the art piece of equipment that is used to detect cancer, bone disease and kidney/bladder problems and will reduce the scanning process by half.

More recently we have provided funding for 2 ‘clown doctors’ for 6 months. Clown doctors are a great asset to any children’s hospital, their visits offer patients and their families a welcome respite from the medical routine of everyday hospital life- a magical moment they look forward to. Even if for a few minutes their visits might be able to help alleviate some anxieties, pass time and adds lots of fun to what can be a very traumatic experience.

Addenbrooke’s Children’s Hospital.
The Foundation has already helped to purchase two ventilators for the Neonatal intensive care unit, which will provide gentle respiratory support for premature babies.

We have also provides funding for a Music Therapy programme for children, their parents and siblings one-to-one and group music therapy sessions. The benefits to the children are immediate and apparent. The children with whom we work are living with complex or chronic conditions. Some are receiving treatment for post-head injury trauma. They range in age from one to seventeen. The Music also helps families to explore new ways of interacting with each other.

Royal Hospital for sick children, Yorkhill, Glasgow
The Foundation has already helped to fund new parent’s accommodation on the Intensive Care Unit, allowing parents to be close-by should their child need them through the night.

We have provided funding for a programme of Music therapy and towards the creation of a multifunctional cinema. Music is the magic medium that evokes an emotional response in almost everyone. This makes it especially suitable for children who may be separated from their families and friends and lacking emotional stimulation. Hospitalisation can result not only in physical stress as a result of invasive treatments and therapies, but emotional stress too, from unexpected news, unfamiliar environments, inability to carry on normal activities and a general lack of control. Music in a hospital setting provides patients with a positive way to cope with their time in hospital.

Leeds Royal Infirmary
The Foundation has already helped to fund a new consulting room at the Children’s clinic at Seacroft Hospital. This new facility will greatly reduce waiting times and provide an efficient service for the community of East Leeds.

We have also helped to refurbish the Cystic Fibrosis unit and will also be providing funding to support children in the new Yorkshire Cancer help centre funding an interactive arts and play programme to create an installation, responsive to sound, touch and light which will allow children of all ages and at all levels of physical and intellectual ability to engage in high quality play, exploring pattern and structure to create their own artwork.

Royal hospital for Sick Children, Bristol
The Foundation has already helped to fund a new state of the art ECHO scanner that will improve the detection and treatment of children with heart defects.

The foundation has also provided funding for a play room in the new medical ward for children suffering from a complex range of medical conditions who need to be constantly monitored and a programme of art and music therapy.

London area
As there are so many different regional facilities within the London area, the Foundation supports a different Hospital or Hospice each year; to date we have supported the following projects:

• Royal London Hospital – Funding to purchase an Intensive Care Incubator for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

• Richard House Children’s Hospice – Funding for library resources and refurbishing of their sensory room.

• Kings College Hospital – Funding towards a new multi-sensory & play facility.

• Haven House Children’s Hospice, Essex - sole purpose of supporting your Activity Co-ordinator post

Robin House Hospice, Loch Lomond.
The Foundation has helped to fund arts and creative materials.

The foundation has helped to fund a digital camera, so those mothers who are unable to be with their newborn babies can be kept updated with their progress.

St Bridget's Hospice, Isle of Man
Funding of children's bedrooms.