Organisations and individuals we have helped

Over £40,000 funding a single patient room, formally unveiled in 2017, in the Oxford Children’s Hospital. ‘The Play2Give Room’ treats teenage patients facing long-term hospital stays on the adolescent ward.

£7,000 raised in 2017 funded six specialist neurological exercise machines part of the neurological physiotherapy gym at the OHIS rehabilitation centre in Kennington.

£5,310.87 was raised across 2022 in our 15th year funding:

• Karate lessons for children with chronic pain conditions – tailored classes allowing wheelchair-users and children who struggle to use their limbs to join in.
• Play Specialists – to calm children before operations and procedures to make the process less distressing.
• New EEG machine costing £55,000 for the Paediatric Critical Care  Unit.
• State of the art technology, refurbished hospital areas and medical research into childhood illnesses.

Over £10,000 was raised across three consecutive years through a wide range of events, numerous stalls, tombolas and raffles to help sponsor a family room in our name for one year in the brand new 62-bedroom Ronald McDonald House – the purpose-built ‘home away from home’ accommodation for families of sick children at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.

Over £10,000 across three years from 2018 funded 401 nights to keep a family of sick children accommodated in the funding of the new Ronald McDonald House Oxford.

Over £750 raised in collaboration with two NCS Didcot groups funded 150 thermo-cooling mugs in 2019 for parents on the wards at Oxford Children’s Hospital meaning parents can take hot drinks onto the wards without leaving their sick child.

Across three years from 2014 over £1,995 went towards the redevelopment of the OHIS Activity and Rehabilitation building.

In fundraising for the Paediatric Eye Fund and raising over £3,340 across two years we helped fund a ‘RET-CAM’ and other revolutionary diagnostic pieces of medical kit for the Oxford Eye Hospital.

In 2019 we helped provide funds over £507 towards the new sensory rehabilitation garden at OHIS, a project to be completed by 2023.

Nearly £7,000 raised through our tenth year in 2017 funded cutting-edge bedside monitors for the Oxford Children’s Hospital and PICU areas at the John Radcliffe Hospital for each child’s bed.

September 2016 at over £655 in funds raised we purchased two brand new PS4s with games and controllers for the teenage ward at Oxford Children’s Hospital in a fundraising partnership with Sainsbury’s Didcot.

Raised distributed and donated thousands of Christmas presents in value totalling £220k to children in hospital, less fortunate children and families across Oxfordshire since 2015 as part of our “Sleigh2Give” festive arm

Funded a wide range of medical equipment including towards revolutionary machines which diagnose meningitis at a rapid rate, a pioneering video link for parents with babies in NICU, ultrasound scanners, state of the art kit for children’s critical care,

£535 brought Christmas presents in 2020 for children at Oxford Children’s Hospitalsupporting the Oxford Hospitals Charity Covid-19 virtual “give a gift” appeal.

£100 towards funding a sensory garden to the children’s outpatients area, with a brick named after us erected in the ground to commemorate our support.

In 2020 and 2022, we ran two Easter Egg Appeals, to spread some Easter cheer, joy and smiles to those less fortunate raising the spirits of children and siblings in hospital, others less fortunate and Helen & Douglas House through the distribution of hundreds of Easter eggs.