Youngsters’s charity helped throughout hardest months with new funding

Edinburgh’s Youngsters’s Hospital Charity (ECHC) has been boosted at an important time following an £8,000 donation from a enterprise near its coronary heart.

After finishing the capital’s gruelling Seven Hills of Edinburgh problem, an 11-strong workforce from residential builders Sq. & Crescent raised 1000’s of kilos that may go on to the charity’s Hospital Hub.

The well timed funds will help the charity’s energetic Hospital Hub, which is situated inside the Royal Hospital for Youngsters and Younger Individuals and is at its busiest time throughout winter months.

Completely reliant on donations, the Hub is the hospital’s wellbeing centre, performing as a non-clinical house for youngsters and their households to spend time away from wards, permitting them to take pleasure in a variety of actions, occasions and therapies.

The donation additional strengthens the hyperlink between ECHC and Sq. & Crescent, with the latter refurbishing giant parts of Edinburgh’s former Royal Hospital for Sick Youngsters into its Royal Meadows growth and agreeing a proper partnership earlier this yr.

Kate Dixon, Company & Partnerships Lead at ECHC, stated: “Sq. & Crescent’s donation comes at a extremely vital time for ECHC. Our Hospital Hub sees probably the most use throughout the festive months, offering comforting respite for youngsters and households throughout troublesome hospital stays, so this further funding is a good increase.

“Not solely can we need to proceed to enhance the Hub’s amenities but it surely’s about increasing its providing previous only a protected house, providing invaluable actions and occasions so youngsters and younger folks could make the perfect of a tough time.

“We’re very grateful, not only for the most recent funding from Sq. & Crescent, however for its ongoing help and collaboration with our charity.”

The workforce at Sq. & Crescent raised £8,000 by tackling the Seven Hills of Edinburgh problem, which consists of reaching the height and strolling between seven of the well-known hills within the capital –

Arthurs Seat, Fortress Rock, Calton Hill, Corstorphine Hill, Braid Hills, Blackford Hill and Craiglockhart Hill.

ECHC is at present fundraising for its annual Christmas attraction, which goals to convey festive enjoyable and happiness to youngsters and households going through doubtlessly life-changing hospital visits this December. This features a programme of day by day actions all through the month to verify?nobody spending the season in hospital misses out on the magic. To date, youngsters have been entertained by Santa abseiling into the constructing, a silent disco across the wards and a dwell pipe band.

ECHC’s former headquarters is without doubt one of the buildings being transformed as a part of the main Royal Meadows growth, which is able to see the previous hospital website remodeled into a mixture of luxurious townhouses and flats.

The charity was based within the Nineteen Eighties the place it was primarily based on the Royal Hospital for Sick Youngsters website close to Edinburgh’s Meadows, earlier than the hospital’s relocation to Little France in 2021.

Euan Marshall, Co-Founder and joint Managing Director of Sq. & Crescent stated: “ECHC is doing unbelievable work so we have been delighted to tackle a problem just like the Seven Hills to lift very important funds.

“As we sensitively redevelop the previous Royal Hospital for Sick Youngsters into our Royal Meadows growth, we really feel an actual reference to the charity. It brings us a variety of satisfaction to present again in any small manner we will and to have the ability to help the very important work they’re doing for younger folks in Edinburgh and the Lothians.”

Sq. & Crescent’s Royal Meadows growth is focused for completion in 2025 and is about to launch a gross sales suite in early 2024. It spans throughout four-acres and is located one mile from Princes Avenue and a brief stroll from Lothian Highway, benefitting from a metropolis centre location.

Sq. & Crescent is a widely-regarded residential developer with a main concentrate on the acquisition, growth and refurbishment of gorgeous houses.

For extra info on Edinburgh Youngsters’s Hospital Charity, go to https://echcharity.org/

For extra info on Royal Meadows, or to register curiosity, please e-mail [email protected] or name Lesley Coyle on 07586 129184.

For extra info on Sq. & Crescent, go to https://squareandcrescent.com/