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Yorkshire Children's Hospital Fund (YCHF)
The Yorkshire Children's Hospital Fund (YCHF), originally the Yorkshire Children's Hospital Trust is a charitable organisation which aims to provide "essential equipment for children's wards that cannot be funded from any other source". [1]
| Abbreviation | YCHF |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1989 |
| Type | Children's Charity |
| Purpose | Medical/health/sickness Relief of poverty |
Area served | North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire & West Yorkshire |
| Method | Makes grants to organisations |
Key people | Chairman - Jo Ropner Administrator - Louise Sampson |
| Website | www.ychf.org.uk www.ychf.co.uk |
Formerly called | The Yorkshire Children's Hospital Trust |
Background
editThe charity was set up in 1989 and since then has provided funding for multiple projects throughout the counties of North, South & West Yorkshire. It is registered charity number 701777. [2]
Provision of Grants
editThe YCHF has the ability to provide grants:
- * to hospital's in Yorkshire in order for them to purchase medical equipment for their paediatric department which is not available from NHS funding.
- * to support research into paediatric medicine within Yorkshire with the direct intent to better the level of care of the regions children.
- * to contribute towards the access of medical technology or equipment which is unavailable in Yorkshire
- * to provide financial support for families with children and babies in hospital "[3]
Trustees
editMrs Jo Ropner - Chairman
Deputy Lieutenant of North Yorkshire [4]
Director of the Rank Foundation
Mrs Heather Louise Sampson - Administrator
Mr Michael Abrahams CBE
Deputy Lieutenant of North Yorkshire
Chairman of The London Clinic
Former chairman of the YCHF
The Countess Peel
Trustee of Herriot Hospice Homecare, Lord Barnby's Foundation & The Countryside Foundation For Education
Mrs Sarah Lucy Louise Adair
Trustee of the Aysgarth School Trust Limited
Viscountess Ruth Mountgarret
Mrs Anne-Marie Megarry
Mrs Lucy Frances Legard
Christy York
Mrs Victoria Ruth Vivian
Miss Charlotte Lucy Platts[5]
Projects
editCyberknife
editThe YCHF provided funds for 18 year old Christopher Wilson of Harrogate, who has craniospinal cancer (ependymoma), to undergo the cyberknife treatment at The London Clinic in Harley Street "after experts had feared that tumours on his spine were inoperable". The treatment cost £22k, of this the YCHF provided £5k with the remainder being provided by The London Clinic, The New Victoria Medical Foundation and the Brainstrust. [6] [7] [8]
Leeds Cystic Fibrosis Unit
editThe YCHF donated £3562 to the Cystic fibrosis Unit at Leeds hospital, this went towards two saturation monitors costing £1000 each, two wrist-worn saturation monitors costing £460 each and the software required for the monitors costing £442.
York MRI Scanner
editThe fund provided over £10,000 for the purchase of a special anaesthetic and monitoring equipment for children which aimed to improve the service provided by the York and North Yorkshire Magnetic resonance imaging centre meaning that children no longer have to be referred to other hospitals outside the city. [9] [10]
Airedale Audiology Equipment
editThe fund provided funding for the purchase of Otoacoustic emission equipment for Airedale hospital in 2000. The aim of this equipment is to help lower the age of hearing loss diagnosis. [11]
References
edit- ^ "Charity Commission". Retrieved 2010-09-18.
- ^ "Charity Commission". Retrieved 2010-09-18.
- ^ "YCHF - About The Charity". Retrieved 2010-09-18.
- ^ "New Deputy Lieutenants appointed for North Yorkshire". North Yorkshire County Council News Releases. 19-7-2010. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Charity Commission". Retrieved 2010-09-18.
- ^ Jeeves, Paul (23-7-2010). "Chance meeting hastens youth's cancer surgery". The Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Encouter leads to cancer hope". The Northern Echo. 5-8-2010. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Generous stranger offers teen vital cancer treatment". The Harrogate Advertiser. 30-7-2010. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Hemmings, Julie (15-11-2010). "Scanner helps young patients". The Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 2010-09-19.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Equipment boost for York Hospital". The Evening Press. 14-12-2010. Retrieved 2010-09-19.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Brunt, Joanna (05-2000). "New Test Equipment For Audiology". Openaire (71).
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External links
edit
- ^ http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=13223
- ^ "New Deputy Lieutenants appointed for North Yorkshire", North Yorkshire County Council, 19 July 2010. Retrieved on 18-09-2010.