The Big Appeal for Nottingham Children’s Hospital

Help premature and seriously ill babies get the best possible care after a traumatic start in life

Every year, over 1,000 premature and seriously ill babies are treated at Nottingham's Neonatal Units. And with a new unit currently being built at Queen’s Medical Centre, that number is set to double.

We urgently need your help to create a welcoming and caring environment for families, equipped with extra specialist medical equipment to ensure their poorly babies receive the best possible care

While the NHS funds the essentials of the new unit, we need your help to provide the added extras that can help bring comfort and stability to families at a time when their world has been turned upside down. And with the new unit set to open in December, we urgently need your support to do this.

Your donation today can help us provide:

• A dedicated ultrasound machine to allow babies to stay on the unit instead of having to be moved across the hospital for important scans.
• A welcoming entrance and woodland themed artwork to help young siblings feel less scared when visiting.
• Colourful flooring to mark out each cot space, helping each family feel the space next to their baby is theirs.
• Homely additions to the unit’s overnight rooms, for parents of the most critically ill babies – including furniture, artwork, and televisions, to give worried parents a calming space away from the ward.
• Extra additions to the family room, such as comfortable seating to help families get a moment of respite, and toys and games to keep young siblings entertained.

Your support can help thousands of babies and families being cared for each year. We urgently need your help to provide these extra facilities that will make a real difference during the days, weeks or months they will spend on the unit, before it opens in December.

Please donate to the Big Appeal today, to help thousands of poorly babies and their families on Nottingham’s new Neonatal Unit.

Children’s Outpatients is the front door to Nottingham Children’s Hospital and sees 1,500 young patients each week – today it needs your support.

The Big Appeal sets out to fundraise for huge changes at Children’s Outpatients, to fund:

• 2 new play and sensory rooms to support children who have additional needs such as Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Therapeutic play intervention to assist coping mechanisms for young patients who are feeling anxious and worried
• Age-appropriate play facilities for children between 0-18 years old, including games consoles, arts and crafts materials, books and other toys
• Additional clinic rooms to cope with high demands of a busy Children’s department
• A complete redecoration of Children’s Outpatients, breathing new life into the department with a fresh and contemporary feel
• State-of-the-art technology including a new booking system to help improve flexibility with appointments

Donate today and money will go directly to help children who are treated here at Nottingham Children’s Hospital.

One thing children know is how to play

Whether it’s a toddler or a teenager, the use of play materials is a really beneficial way to put a patient at ease. By introducing games, books and magazines, play equipment, craft materials or other toys, it can really help young patients cope with their time in hospital.

With your donations, we can fund:

• More play specialists, to support young patients and their families when they are in hospital
• Toys, games and other entertainment which is age appropriate to different young patients
• Improvements to the Youth Room, for the Youth Service
• Play areas both inside and outside, to inspire and entertain both patients and their families
• Books and reading materials, to help children feel calm, settled and at ease when in hospital

Donate today and your money will go directly to help children who are treated here at Nottingham Children’s Hospital.