The reception took place at the Irish Embassy in London to celebrate the 150th anniversary of The Hospital Saturday Fund. The event was hosted by Ambassador Martin Fraser. The Hospital Saturday Fund donated a total of £160,000/€176,000 to thirty-one medical charities and organisations from Ireland and the UK during the event. The occasion was made even more special with the presence of Graham Norton, a celebrity supporter of Bantry Hospice, who presented the donations. Lesley Garrett, the Patron of The Hospital Saturday Fund, also participated in making the presentations to the recipient charities.
Among the beneficiaries were Bantry Hospice who will put HSF’s grant towards their palliative care service in West Cork. London Irish Centre’s donation will be put towards their Community Wellbeing & Health Navigation Programme. Another grant recipient was Spinal Injuries Ireland who received a grant towards their Peer-to-Peer Support Programme and Irish Dogs for the Disabled which will be put towards physiotherapy medical equipment.
Cure Leukaemia received a grant towards part-funding a Clinical Trials Research Nurse, within the Trials Acceleration Programme, to enable clinical trials delivery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and Teenage Cancer Trust’s grant will help the Youth Empowerment Programme for the North East. Richard House Hospice’s donation will be used to support respite and palliative care for children with life-limiting illnesses. Paul Jackson, Chief Executive of The Hospital Saturday Fund said: “We are delighted to continue the tradition of supporting many charities in both Ireland and the UK, many of which are less well known.
The Hospital Saturday Fund is honoured to support the efforts of such deserving charities and help in some way with the exceptional, tireless work that they do. We are delighted to have increased our grant-making funds to £2.3/€2.5 million to over 600 charities in Ireland and the UK over the last 12 months. This evening has been very special, as for the first time, we have been able to give grants to both Irish and British charities at the same reception and mark our commitment to supporting the communities in these countries for the past 150 years”. “We are also extremely grateful to the Irish Embassy for hosting this reception tonight. Considering our heritage, it is hard to imagine a more appropriate venue”.
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In 2023 The Hospital Saturday Fund will give £2.3m/€2.5m in donations and grants to medical charities for care and research, hospices and hospitals across Ireland and the UK Assistance will also be given to individuals whose illness or disability has caused financial difficulties.
For further details please contact Dee Wright, Charity Manager – dee.wright@hsf.eu.com
Full List of organisations receiving grants at the reception:
- Ambitious about Autism
- Angel Eyes NI
- Aspire (Association for Spinal Injury Research,
- Rehabilitation and Reintegration)
- Bantry Hospice
- CanTeen Ireland
- Cerebra
- Connemara Therapeutic Riding CLG
- Cork Life Centre
- Cure Leukaemia
- DEBRA
- Diabetes Ireland
- Dogs for the Disabled
- Dyspraxia DCD Ireland
- East Liverpool Riding for the Disabled (RDA)
- Edinburgh Headway Group
- FitzRoy
- Greenwich & Bexley Community Hospice
- Irish Society for Colitis and Crohn’s Disease
- Leonard Cheshire Disability
- London Irish Centre
- Martha Trust
- Meath Epilepsy Charity
- Order of Malta Ireland
- Quarriers
- Recovery Haven Kerry
- Richard House Children’s Hospice
- Saint John of God Foundation
- Scuba Trust
- Spinal Injuries Ireland
- Teenage Cancer Trust
- Whizz-Kidz
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