500 babies each year need special care from East Surrey Hospital at the very start of their lives. Since 2020, your donations, and a major investment by Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH) has transformed the neonatal unit which cares for these babies and their families. 

With your help, we want to do more for families of premature or unwell babies here in Surrey and Sussex. 

Olive's appeal is inspired by Olive, who is now 8, and spent the first 3 months of her life in the neonatal unit, Olive's Appeal supports the neonatal unit at East Surrey Hospital. Your donations have helped provide five state of the art incubators for our smallest patients, to decorate the whole unit with a calming rainforest theme, as well as to transform an empty room into a beautiful new family room for parents to step away from the clinical environment. 

Help fundraise for a transport incubator - helping save more babies lives

At times, very vulnerable sick babies need to be moved to another area of the hospital without compromising body temperature, ongoing treatment from ventilatory support or complex IV medication.

With your help, we hope to fund a specialist transport incubator - to further enhace the care we can provide to the smallest babies here in the hospital. 

A donation to Olive's Appeal will directly help us do more for the smallest most unwell babies in our care. Potentially saving lives. 

Help expand our breast pump library

Every mother deserves the chance to provide breastmilk for her baby, but for those whose little ones are admitted to the neonatal unit, this can be a challenge. Currently, our Breast Pump Loan Library is unable to meet the demand from mothers who are eager to breastfeed but find themselves without the necessary resources.

With your help, we can change that. 

Can you help us make overnight stays more comfortable for new parents? 

We now hope to raise the funds to enhance the overnight rooms where parents stay alongside their new baby. Making these clinical rooms feel more homely for the parents, whilst still caring for our smallest patients. 

Please consider donating now - and help provide a comfortable new space for parents and babies at an incredibly challenging time. 

How else will donations help?

Alongside enhancing this overnight room, donations will help the neonatal unit team to contrinue to go above and beyond what would otherwise be possible for babies and families here in Surrey and Sussex, by funding additional equipment, or ideas which help make people's stay in the neonatal unit as comfortable as it can be. Some of these are listed below with dedicated donation pages.

Donations in the neonatal unit fund are designated for use to enhance care for babies and families in the neonatal unit at SASH NHS Trust. Any donations in the fund which arent or cannot be used for this purpose would be used to support other charitable activities for patients and staff across SASH NHS Trust.