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The Alder Hey Children’s Charity • The patient experience and spiritual care team:
this services allow the delivery of enhanced level
Autumn 2017 marked the fifth anniversary of the of patient experience and therapy to patients
re-launch of Alder Hey Children’s Charity in preparation and families and staff to access whilst a user/
for the new hospital appeal. Since that time the Charity staff member of Alder Hey. The spiritual care team
has grown both its supporter base and income bringing provides a unique service to our patients and families
on board national companies and raising income from supporting them through the difficult journey when
£1.3m per year to £7.7m in 2017/18. This has enabled receiving specialist care at the Trust.
the Charity to grant over £35million to Alder Hey
Children’s NHS Foundation Trust to support state of During the year, the Charity was also able to
the art medical equipment, enhancement of patient support the Trust’s plans to build a new home for its
facilities and vital research. bereavement centre by securing a £1.4m from the
Treasury through LIBOR grant funding. This is a unique,
To facilitate this growth, the team has expanded with 21 national centre of excellence which provides care and
staff now employed within the Charity across all areas education for anyone affected by the loss of a child.
of fundraising. Investment in marketing has also been The National Child Death Helpline is also run from this
vital in raising awareness about The Alder Hey Charity facility. It will be housed in a purpose built, state of the
and the support we offer to patients and families at art environment within the wider health park. Building is
Alder Hey. due to commence in the summer of 2018.

During the 2017/18 financial year the Charity granted In addition to this, the Charity was also able to secure
further funds to support the second phase build of a grant of £50,000 from The People’s Millions for a
the research and education centre ‘The Institute in project which brings music to children on wards,
the Park’, bringing the total charity contribution to fund enhanced medical equipment, such as heated
this £27million build to £6.2million. This purpose built cots for our youngest patients as well as support
facility will support the Trust’s ambition to significantly enhancements to patient waiting areas and distraction
improve the fight against childhood disease and enable along the route to the operating theatres.
the development of better medicines and treatments,
with the impact not only improving the lives of patients The Charity continues to increase its strong community
here in Liverpool but with the potential of helping young fundraising base, particularly throughout the North
people across the world. West. Income through sponsored events came in at
over £450k. Our own bespoke events are all now well
The concept of the new ‘Institute in the Park’ was to established and continue to be successful, grossing
provide a state of the art facility alongside the new over £250k. During 2018/19 we shall continue to expand
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, which will both attract our fundraising base with the addition of a specific
the best researchers in their field and enable joint schools fundraiser.
working with key universities to accelerate improvement
in child health. Lottery membership continues to grow steadily and
is particularly successful where canvassers work
In addition to the research appeal, the Charity has from within the hospital. Attrition rate has fallen and
contributed a further £3million funding to support: membership is now over 15,000.
• Ward based catering: the ward based catering
programme at the hospital provides a food on Our corporate fundraising continues to make significant
demand service on wards, encouraging healthy impact at Alder Hey not only through financial
eating and nutrition to support patients recovery to donations but also through the sharing of expertise and
health. knowledge. Our partnership with Matalan continues
to offer significant support not only financially but in
• Play at Alder Hey: Alder Hey treats over 270,000
raising awareness about Alder Hey through the annual
young patients each year, many of whom are babies campaign on social media. Liverpool John Lennon
and require specialist distraction techniques to calm
airport continues to support the development of the
them during enable procedures. Our young patients
Alder Play app and this partnership will be significant in
also often who need specialist therapy before
our major fundraising event in the summer of 2018.
treatment to help them deal with anxiety. Some of
the other services the play team support include During 2017/18 income from legacies rose significantly,
organising daily play and art activities in the playroom
with several substantial gifts bringing our legacy income
or at the bedside and using play to maintain a child’s
to over £2 million. This is an area which the Charity will
level of development during illness. During 2017/18
continue to promote during the upcoming year.
the charity was able to offer a one off grant to support
this activity.

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