As a charity our mission is simple: to support the excellence in treatment, research, and care we provide to our patients at our family of 10 NHS hospitals in Manchester and Trafford, each and every day. We want to make a real difference to the people we treat young and old by making sure that they continue to receive the very best treatment in the very best facilities.

By taking part in The Great Giving Challenge you will be directly helping to make this happen. Your support will make a lasting difference to our hospitals, NHS teams and patients, both now and in the future.

Here are just some of the ways your donation could help:

£20 could purchase an animatronic pet, a lifelike cat or dog to provide companionship for a patient with dementia.

£50 could support our specialist Healthcare Play team, giving our younger patients the opportunity for playful, fun distraction and therapies during their time in hospital.

£100 could help to fund a tactile and sensory wayfinding system to enable blind and visually impaired visitors to find their way around our eye hospital independently.

£250 could provide several home comforts in specialist bereavement rooms for grieving parents experiencing the loss of their new-born child.

£400 could contribute towards vital research projects to improve our understanding of illnesses and invest in life-saving therapies.