The Children’s Hospital Charity supports the amazing life-changing work at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Sheffield Children’s is one of only three specialist standalone children’s hospitals in the UK. Over 183,000 children from Sheffield visited during 2018/19, along with nearly 19,000 from Rotherham, over 13,000 for Barnsley and over 11,000 from Doncaster.
Many specialisms reside within its walls such as ground-breaking sleep study programme helps over 800 families and children with chronic sleep problems each year. Neurosciences; the top performing neuro-surgery centre in the country for brain tumour removal and after care, as well as the most advanced and patient focussed intra-operative 3T MRI theatre set-up in the UK.Children come from all over the world to see clinicians who are respected both nationally and internationally in their fields with the Metabolic Bone Disease Service being the largest of its kind in Western Europe.
Ward in the new wing 
Sheffield Children’s
Children come from all over the country to see the hospital’s specialists and the charity work hard to make it better by funding things which the NHS does not cover. The money raised through donations buys life-saving equipment, funds vital research and treatment for thousands of children from across the world and helps create a comfortable, engaging environment for patients..
Artfelt
Artfelt transforms the hospital’s walls and spaces with bright art, helping children recover in an environment tailored to them. The programme also puts on workshops for youngsters to provide distraction during anxious moments – such as before an operation, and to break up long stays on the wards.
Surroundings have a powerful effect on how people feel, and that’s especially important in a hospital, where the environment can influence well-being and comfort for patients, visitors and staff.
Artfelt collaborate with artists and designers to work directly on improving the hospital space. They create art, graphics, photography, and decoration especially for the hospital, working sensitively and creatively to address the needs of each space and its users; whether its familiar and nostalgic distractions in an x-ray suite, gadget-filled waiting rooms for adolescents or soothing spaces for parents.
The workshops are a great way to get children socialising, expressing and enjoying themselves and are such a valuable way to make hospital feel better. Creating their own animations, making robots and playing music are just a few examples of the fun patients have had in our workshops recently.
