Category : Funding stories

Boredom busting for patients

8 April 2021
Our hospitals treat over one million patients every year. For some patients, visits will be...
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Keeping families connected during Covid-19

8 April 2021
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, visiting restrictions mean that patients have been unable to receive visits...
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Dignified dementia care

8 April 2021
There are over 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK, and here in Bristol,...
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Studying Glioblastoma, the most aggressive cancer

8 April 2021
Glioblastoma is the most fatal cancer, with a survival rate of just 3.3 percent two...
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Long-Covid research

8 April 2021
Imagine waking up every day, feeling breathlessness, fatigue, muscle aches and not being able to...
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Giving hope to people living with Parkinson’s

8 April 2021
Parkinson’s is the fastest-growing neurological disease in the world and affects 127,000 people in the...
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Stroke team remembers beloved colleague Maureen Ellington

26 January 2021
A fundraising collection by Southmead Hospital’s Stroke Ward team has funded a beautiful wood carved...
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How your donations are supporting Coronavirus wellbeing and psychological support for our staff

17 September 2020
Your generous donations have enabled us to commit more than £274,000 over the next two...
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Pioneering Coronavirus research finds long term effects of virus on patients

20 August 2020
The first stage results of our research project into the long terms effects of Coronavirus...
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£44k and counting raised to fund Coronavirus research

11 August 2020
We’re so grateful to our supporters, who have provided an amazing £44,499 towards vital Coronavirus...
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Wear a yellow heart for Coronavirus

3 August 2020
Staff members here at North Bristol NHS Trust are offered yellow heart pin badges to...
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More than £1.7 million raised for our Coronavirus Appeal

24 June 2020
We’re so grateful for the generosity of our supporters, who have so far raised a...
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Supporting the DISCOVER study to better understand Coronavirus

18 May 2020
Thanks to our supporters, a new observational study aimed at identifying markers that predict how...
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“I was completely blown away with how engaged my colleagues were…”

21 May 2019
We were delighted when National Friendly chose us as their charity of the year for...
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International Women’s Day 2019

6 March 2019
We’re marking International Women’s Day by highlighting some of the recent research projects we’ve funded that are...
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Clothing bank opens for patients at Southmead Hospital

30 January 2019
We are honoured to have been able to fund a clothing bank for patients admitted...
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A home away from home for parents of premature and sick babies

14 November 2018
Having a child in the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is one of the toughest...
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