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#FundraisingFriday: January 17
This week's #FundraisingFriday celebrates perfect opposites - a cake-filled coffee morning and a sponsored slim! Whether it's baking buns or counting calories, what could you do to support Children's Heart Surgey Fund? Seth's Coffee Morning Seth’s Mum Rebecca said:...
Morrisons Foundation puts Children’s Charity at its Heart
The Morrisons Foundation is delighted to support Children’s Heart Surgery Fund, a charity that provides invaluable support to the work of the Leeds Congenital Heart Unit, its patients and families. The support from the Morrisons Foundation has funded a...
Leeds heart nurse encourages fitness for charity in 2020
Heart theatre nurse Filipa Ferreira is encouraging everyone to take part in a charity fitness challenge to kick start the new decade. She took on a Portuguese coastal walk to Santiago de Compostela for Children’s Heart Surgery Fund (CHSF) late last year, and wants...
COMMUNITY FUNDRAISING
#FundraisingFriday: January 17
This week's #FundraisingFriday celebrates perfect opposites - a cake-filled coffee morning and a sponsored slim! Whether it's baking buns or counting calories, what could you do to support Children's Heart Surgey Fund? Seth's Coffee Morning Seth’s Mum Rebecca said:...
Leeds heart nurse encourages fitness for charity in 2020
Heart theatre nurse Filipa Ferreira is encouraging everyone to take part in a charity fitness challenge to kick start the new decade. She took on a Portuguese coastal walk to Santiago de Compostela for Children’s Heart Surgery Fund (CHSF) late last year, and wants...
#FundraisingFriday: January 10
For the first #FundraisingFriday of 2020 we have inspirational supporters raising money in all sorts of ways! From an open-gym and a community music festival to a local heart warrior jumping out of a plane for a good cause - we can't wait to see what you will all get...
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Morrisons Foundation puts Children’s Charity at its Heart
The Morrisons Foundation is delighted to support Children’s Heart Surgery Fund, a charity that provides invaluable support to the work of the Leeds Congenital Heart Unit, its patients and families. The support from the Morrisons Foundation has funded a...
B&M Waste Services donate £4k to CHSF
West Yorkshire waste management provider, B&M Waste Services, are continuing to support local charity, Children’s Heart Surgery Fund, through a donation of £4,000. Children’s Heart Surgery Fund supports babies, children and adults born with congenital heart...
Can you help CHSF on 6th December?
Join our xmas collection! It will soon be that time again when we look for donations as Leeds gets busier with Christmas shoppers. We are looking for volunteers to come and help us out at our Christmas Collection on Friday 6th December 2019 at Leeds Train Station....
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Leeds heart nurse encourages fitness for charity in 2020
Heart theatre nurse Filipa Ferreira is encouraging everyone to take part in a charity fitness challenge to kick start the new decade. She took on a Portuguese coastal walk to Santiago de Compostela for Children’s Heart Surgery Fund (CHSF) late last year, and wants...
Can you help CHSF on 6th December?
Join our xmas collection! It will soon be that time again when we look for donations as Leeds gets busier with Christmas shoppers. We are looking for volunteers to come and help us out at our Christmas Collection on Friday 6th December 2019 at Leeds Train Station....
B&M Waste sponsor Superhero Walk to success
This year 200 superheroes walked the grounds of Temple Newsam to raise valuable funds for Children’s Heart Surgery Fund. They were joined by a hero and villain from B&M Waste Services, Ruby Rainbow and Ronald Dump (pictured leading the walk above). Ruby Rainbow is...
JOBS AND OPPORTUNITIES
WE NEED YOUR HELP: Oral Health Project
My name is Jenny Owen and I work in the School of Dentistry at the University of Leeds as a dental therapist. I would like to find out how we can support families of children with long-term medical conditions to look after their child’s teeth. I would like to...
Can you help CHSF on 6th December?
Join our xmas collection! It will soon be that time again when we look for donations as Leeds gets busier with Christmas shoppers. We are looking for volunteers to come and help us out at our Christmas Collection on Friday 6th December 2019 at Leeds Train Station....
Volunteers: can you donate your time?
Children’s Heart Surgery Fund are always looking for volunteers to raise awareness of congenital heart disease, fundraise or attend events across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. We simply couldn't do what we do without your help. We are often described as a charity...
REAL STORIES
Lily Doyle
Lily's story, told by dad, Richard "On the 10th May 1990 our second child, Lily Doyle, was born. She was quite frail and was sick after most feeds, but in our limited experience as parents (one other child at 18 months old) this was quite normal." This continued for...
Toy MRI for MRI Research
With your help we have funded some special toy MRI equipment to help young patients. MRI research nurse Ruth Foley tells this very special “Because of You” story! Meet James! James is 6 years old and has Tetralogy of Fallot. Read his backstory here. James came to...
James Noonan
From: Leeds Mum: Claire CHD: Tetralogy of Fallot James was diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot at our 20 week scan. At 4 days old James was ready to have his tiny heart stented and he did not have a name. So before he went for his procedure we named him James. Dr...
WHAT YOU’VE FUNDED
Bedside TVs for the Heart Ward!
The children’s cardiac ward now have 13 brand new bedside TVs thanks to your amazing fundraising! The TVs are a welcome distraction and a way to de-stress for children recovering from or awaiting surgery. Mum Laura Fletcher and daughter Ava who has been recovering in...
iPads for PICU
We’ve been able to fund four iPads for children on PICU because of you! Lots of children are awake on PICU post cardiac surgery and the iPads will now provide some entertainment for children while they recover. The iPads will also be used as a distraction during...
Parallel Simulator
Your amazing donations enabled CHSF to buy a Parallel Simulator which attaches to the ECMO heart-lung bypass machine. It simulates various training exercises for the 12 PICU trainees to follow and respond to. The Parallel Simulator is programmed with a variety of...
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1148359
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8152970