Join us in a 4 hour Boxercise Charity Event in order to raise money for Alder Hey Hospital on the 1st of December at 12.30pm Pure Gym North (you do not need to be a member). Go to the bottom of this page now to reserve your place.
We have chosen Alder Hey as it is nearly a year since my friends son had heart surgery in the first few weeks of his life. Alder Hey offered care and support to Cameron and his family during this time and I am sure that this charity has helped many others who we may know. Here is how our sponsor money will be spent:
Alder Hey Children’s Charity raises vital funds to help make Alder Hey Children's Hospital a truly world-class, patient-friendly hospital for the 330,000 patients and families we care for every year.
Since April 2013, over £43m has been raised for a range of life-saving medical equipment and facilities that are making a real difference to families every day - but we still need your support.
Join Us. Join In.
The charity helps to fund a range of activities and projects that are designed to enhance and improve the lives of our amazing young patients. This includes the funding of specialist medical equipment to ensure our brilliant surgeons and clinical staff have the most up to date and cutting edge technology available and funding hi-tech distraction equipment designed and proven to reduce pain and anxiety in our patients. We also fund a range of programmes and special projects such as our ward musicians, our on site magician and the play specialists we have on every ward. Our ground-breaking ward-based chef programme ensures we are delivering healthy and nutritionally balanced food to all our patients when they need it most.
Your support has recently enabled us to complete our £6m appeal to build a new research and education facility, The Speakman Building and we remain committed to supporting cutting edge research at Alder Hey.
We need your support for our fresh food-on-demand service
Good nutrition is critical for patients who are recovering in hospital. Alder Hey is the first children's hospital in the UK to have dedicated chefs on every patient ward who prepare fresh, nutritious evening meals for patients, whenever they want to eat.
Poor nutrition can lead to weight loss, a weakened immune system and slower recovery - resulting in longer hospital stays for young patients.
At Alder Hey, in-patients can order food from a chef working on the same ward, who will then prepare their meal and serve it in their bedroom. Families already love this service, and say it provides better nutrition and a better experience in hospital, as well as reducing food waste.
With your support, we will enhance this service to focus on healthy eating, liaison with dieticians and education programmes for families and staff.
We need your support for next-generation technology to change hospital visits forever
We are fundraising to revolutionise the hospital experience for young patients and families, by piloting next-generation technology to reduce anxiety, distract patients during procedures and to help parents relax too. This has been a real success, but we now need your support so all of our waiting areas can be entertaining and fun environments for patients. Your support will help fund this digital Alder Hey project.
Alder Hey is already home to some of this amazing technology. Our digital fish tank, where patients waiting for daycase surgery can relax by designing a sea creature and watch it swim, is the only one of its kind in Europe.
To help manage anxiety before arriving, we want patients to use our app, Alder Play, to explore a digital version of Alder Hey to see their ward and meet staff. The app provides games and augmented reality features to distract patients during a stay, as well as link to a reward scheme encouraging a healthy lifestyle.
We need your support for research, innovation and education
Your support will help us develop better, safer medicines and treatment to benefit young patients at Alder Hey and children across the world.
We’re not satisfied treating children using today’s medicines and technologies, we want to find the very best treatments we can. That’s why we’re working to develop the next generation of medicines and interventions that are even more effective, and safer.
To support this vision we have helped to fund a new state of the art research and innovation facility that will enable us to help even more patients.
Our ambition to improve children’s health also means we’re using cutting edge technology, to develop new ways to treat children more effectively. We’re testing new sensor technology to help us identify infections and we’re printing children’s X-Rays in 3D so our surgeons can use these as a guide in surgery.
We’re not standing still. We’re not only developing new medicines and treatments, we‘re also training nearly 1,000 healthcare professionals each year, who are able to learn the latest skills and techniques from some of the world’s leading clinicians and researchers.
So, if you want to get involved in helping to improve Alder Hey for the better and therefore improve the lives of our amazing patients, please do not hesitate join us now!
