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Last year I participated in the Blenheim Palace Triathlon in order to raise money and awareness for Thinking of Oscar. Together we raised more than £60,000. This year I am doing it again, however this time the squad will be made up of 100 participants. 

Thinking of Oscar 

In 2016 we are looking to raise £100,000 collectively to reach our goal of funding a new Paediatric Procedures Unit for the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and also to be able to fund other such initiatives and innovation to support children and their families whist in hospital care.

Why does Thinking of Oscar need your support?

We are raising money for Thinking of Oscar, the charity that was founded after the sudden and unexpected death of our friends' son Oscar in June 2014. He had been in hospital being treated routinely for an unusual but non life threatening infection but in the space of 24 hours his condition deteriorated rapidly and he died. It was later learned that he had contracted encephalitis, a viral inflammation of the brain.


Thinking of Oscar has the objective of improving the experiences of young children and their families whilst in hospital care. So far we have funded a set of vein finders into the John Radcliffe Children's Hospital, Oxford. Via the triathlon we will look to complete the funding of a new children's procedures unit which will mean that children who would otherwise have had to be admitted to the main hospital for procedures which are routine from a medical point of view but may not feel that way as a parent or child, will now be able to be treated within the children's hospital. The benefit of this will be that it is less stressful for the child and much more likely that the procedure takes place at the appointed time rather than being bounced by emergencies. We are also looking to fund similar projects across the UK and other new and advanced technologies which are proven to have a tangible positive impact on paediatric healthcare provision in the UK.

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