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Whitehaven to Tynemouth Coast to Coast Challenge · 21 September 2013
The Cause:
For those who aren't aware, Sheffield Children's Hospital is one of only 4 specialist Children's hospitals in the UK. Those of us resident in Sheffield and the surrounding areas are very fortunate
to have such a specialised and renowned centre in our locality. Indeed up until the rankings were stopped 2 years ago SCH was consistently ranked as the top such centre in the UK. However, SCH has
to do this on a shoestring, with the lowest charity fundraising of all four centres.
On top of this SCH currently operate out of facilities which are in huge need of an update, indeed, their continued government funding has been made dependant upon an extension and modernisation
programme:
http://www.tchc.org.uk/our-plans
This is a £40m redevelopment, of which the The Children's Hospital Charity needs to cover £20m. Our aim in doing this is to help towards that target, obviously we're not going to raise £20m
unless we find some very generous sponsors, however if we raise £25,000 we can pay for one of the state of the art rooms which the hospital desperately requires.
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