A determined nurse and her husband have been named as charity champions after raising over £600 for Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity by going the extra distance and cycling over 200 miles for her brave patients. Read more
A brave boy with a rare form of cancer has raised more than £2,500 for Birmingham Children’s Hospital’s oncology department, as part of a fundraiser to celebrate his eighth birthday. Read more
Sophia Badhan, a 19-year-old woman from Birmingham is speaking out this Eating Disorders Week (1-7 March) about her experience with anorexia and how it was the intervention of youth mental health services which helped her gain control of her condition. Read more
A six-month-old baby is the youngest person ever to complete a marathon for Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity – with help from his mum of course! Baby Theo and Mum Becky Davies, from Redditch, took on the charity’s virtual Red Runners challenge, raising more than £300 for the hospital, where Theo received life-saving care at just a few hours old. Read more
An innovative new model of care supporting children and young people with mental illnesses will be coming to Birmingham, thanks to a £252,000 grant from NHS Charities Together and donations to Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity worth £139,000. Read more
A tattoo artist from Burton upon Trent has swapped skin for paper to create lifelike drawings in exchange for donations to Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity. He has managed to raise over £1,000 in support of his best friend’s little boy, who is waiting for a new heart. Read more
A grateful brother has crossed the finish line after running 5k every day in 2020 – a whopping 1,825km in total over the course of the year – for Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity, after his little sister received a life-saving kidney transplant Read more
A kind-hearted boy has raised over £2,500 for Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity since the start of the pandemic, taking his total fundraising for the hospital to an impressive £12,000. Read more
A recruitment firm from Stafford sprung in to action and raised £1,570 for Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity, after wanting to do something to support those people who have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
Five-year-old Harry Talbot, from Newcastle-Under-Lyme, and his kind-hearted sister, have launched their own Christmas Appeal, raising over £3,000 for Birmingham Children’s Hospital, where Harry is a patient, having received more than three life-saving operations to date, including one to mend his brain and skull. Read more
Hundreds of children will have to spend this Christmas in hospital. It’s a situation no parent ever expects to find themselves in, and for Jade Mercer and her family, from Lisburn, her joy of welcoming newborn daughter Lacie soon turned to anguish as Lacie was whisked away and flown to Birmingham Children’s Hospital for emergency treatment. Read more
Two sisters from Shrewsbury have been named as charity champions after rallying their schoolmates to do their bit in a festive knit and raising more than £520 for Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity. Read more