52km overnight ultramarathon for SASH children's appeal
Elliot Barratt
My Story
I'm currently a 5th year medical student on placement at East Surrey hospital; It has been a privelege learning from the excellent NHS teams taking care of our familes and community. I can't imagine what it must be like bringing your own child into hospital, and I am passionate about supporting SASH to provide the best environment for children/families as possible. I want to make a statement of commitment to this cause by stretching myself physically on an ultramarathon - my longest run to date is 15km! I do have a background in bicycle racing but this will certainly be quite the challenge!
I will be walk/running the ultra on Friday the 27th of September with a good friend and fellow medical student, Josh Thornton.
God bless,
Elliot Barratt
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
For more information:
Being a child in hospital is hard.
We want to change this.
Your donation to the Childrens Appeal will help children in East Surrey Hospital to have the best possible experience, by enhancing the facilities in which they are looked after, creating new or improved spaces for children and their families, as well as supporting those fun but vital things which help a hospital stay feel more enjoyable - by helping us to upgrade the toys and games available where children find themselves in hospital.
More children from across Surrey and Sussex are now cared for at East Surrey Hospital than at any time since the hospital was built. The team of specialist childrens nurses, doctors, and play specialists care for children from newborn babies, to toddlers, older children, and teenagers. We want to help them provide the very best for children, whether they are here for an emergency, a planned operation, or have a longer term condition requiring ongoing, or regular hospital care.
With your help, we will:
- Fund the FUN! We will upgrade the toys and play equipment, to help the brilliant Play Specialists support more children across the hospital. This will include providing an additional games console for older children, a sensory trolley, which particularly helps children with additional needs, as well as enhancing the other games and toys our play specialists use with children across the hospital.
- Transform a medical treatment room in the centre of the childrens ward (Outwood Ward)into a more child friendly space with new wall coverings, a sky ceiling, and additional equipment for play specialists and clinicians to use when explaining procedures to children of all ages.
- Create a new parents room for families of children in the hospital - open 24 hours a day for parents to take a moment away from the clinical environment, to rest in a comfortable
- Help make our new Day Procedures Unit feel more like a dedicated childrens space. This is the area where children often come on the day of an operation, and where they recover afterwards. Donations will help us change plain white walls into brighter more fun designs, chosen by children in the hospital.
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Target
£100
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Raised so far
£110
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Number of donors
8
My Story
I'm currently a 5th year medical student on placement at East Surrey hospital; It has been a privelege learning from the excellent NHS teams taking care of our familes and community. I can't imagine what it must be like bringing your own child into hospital, and I am passionate about supporting SASH to provide the best environment for children/families as possible. I want to make a statement of commitment to this cause by stretching myself physically on an ultramarathon - my longest run to date is 15km! I do have a background in bicycle racing but this will certainly be quite the challenge!
I will be walk/running the ultra on Friday the 27th of September with a good friend and fellow medical student, Josh Thornton.
God bless,
Elliot Barratt
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
For more information:
Being a child in hospital is hard.
We want to change this.
Your donation to the Childrens Appeal will help children in East Surrey Hospital to have the best possible experience, by enhancing the facilities in which they are looked after, creating new or improved spaces for children and their families, as well as supporting those fun but vital things which help a hospital stay feel more enjoyable - by helping us to upgrade the toys and games available where children find themselves in hospital.
More children from across Surrey and Sussex are now cared for at East Surrey Hospital than at any time since the hospital was built. The team of specialist childrens nurses, doctors, and play specialists care for children from newborn babies, to toddlers, older children, and teenagers. We want to help them provide the very best for children, whether they are here for an emergency, a planned operation, or have a longer term condition requiring ongoing, or regular hospital care.
With your help, we will:
- Fund the FUN! We will upgrade the toys and play equipment, to help the brilliant Play Specialists support more children across the hospital. This will include providing an additional games console for older children, a sensory trolley, which particularly helps children with additional needs, as well as enhancing the other games and toys our play specialists use with children across the hospital.
- Transform a medical treatment room in the centre of the childrens ward (Outwood Ward)into a more child friendly space with new wall coverings, a sky ceiling, and additional equipment for play specialists and clinicians to use when explaining procedures to children of all ages.
- Create a new parents room for families of children in the hospital - open 24 hours a day for parents to take a moment away from the clinical environment, to rest in a comfortable
- Help make our new Day Procedures Unit feel more like a dedicated childrens space. This is the area where children often come on the day of an operation, and where they recover afterwards. Donations will help us change plain white walls into brighter more fun designs, chosen by children in the hospital.
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