Wolves Fan Legend Honoured

We honoured one of our fundraising heroes, Steve Plant, who passed away a year ago, on 23 September 2024. In his lifetime, Steve had raised over a phenomenal £103,863 for the our sick kids.

Steve (63), who was well known as an avid Wolverhampton Wanderers fan – and even turned his garage into a museum full of Wolves memorabilia – first began fundraising for our charity with a golf day in 2016.

Later that same year, Steve’s book ‘They wore the shirt’, about the history of Wolverhampton Wanderers’ kit was released with all profits to be donated to support the patients.

In the following years Steve began fundraising in memory of his parents, John, an ex-Wolves kit man, who passed away in 2019 and later, his beloved mum, Joan, who followed in 2021.

Steve’s fundraising, along with the profits from his book began to add up, contributing to the funding of learning resources boxes for our patients with special educational needs and research into diabetes. Over £22,000 of Steve’s fundraising went towards the our £3.65 million Star Appeal, which closed in 2017, to create the UK’s first-of-its-kind Rare Diseases Centre.

In more recent years, Steve gifted £10,000 to our £50,000 Help A Heart Appeal, which funded a new, quality research role on our hospital’s Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, with the task of implementing a series of protocols to reduce the number of children going into cardiac arrest.

Annie Eytle, Head of Public Fundraising at Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity, said: “Over the years Steve became one of our most dedicated, yet humble supporters and we’ll be forever grateful for his passion for our hospital, which resulted in such a phenomenal amount of fundraising.

“Steve’s legacy will live on through our hospital and the countless patients his incredible fundraising has and continues to support.”