Due to the incredible generosity of members of our community, local businesses, charitable trusts and hospital staff, the WISHH Charity’s Space to Grow Appeal reached its £100,000 target to support the Hull Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Hull NICU). The appeal complements the Hospital Trust’s expansion of the unit, based within Hull Women and Children’s Hospital, by...
On Saturday 14th September, eleven hospital staff and friends will be taking part in the Yorkshire Three Peaks fundraiser for WISHH. The 12-hour challenge sees entrants walking 24 miles through the stunning Yorkshire Dales, setting off from Horton-in-Ribblesdale in the early morning chill.The team will start the hiking up Pen-Y-Ghent, past Ribblehead Viaduct to ascend...
On Sunday 8th September, fourteen individuals forming #TeamWISHH will be heading to Newcastle upon Tyne for the fantastic Great North Run, known as the “World’s biggest and best half marathon”. With 60,000 runners taking part, the race will see participants running the 13.1-mile route from Newcastle and finishing in South Shields.The fourteen-strong team includes Hull...
Welcome to our May update! We are excited to share our latest good news stories, as well as the ways you, your family, friends and colleagues can become involved to help us make a difference to patients cared for across Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital! Due to the generosity of our fundraisers supporting our ‘Space to Grow...
Patients and Porters are celebrating after Hull Hospitals took delivery of 15 specialist wheelchairs.The new chairs, collectively costing more than £15,000, have been made a reality through generous supporters of the WISHH Charity.In a change to the usual NHS blue, the chair seats are a distinct shade of lime green, a nod to the charity’s...
Welcome to our March update! It’s been a busy year so far and we have plenty of good news stories to share, as well as showing how you can help us do more in the first part of 2024! Would you like to help us bring smiles to children’s faces this Easter? Our Easter Appeal provides...
Hull Hospital’s WISHH Charity, are helping raise smiles across children’s wards this Easter by providing arts, crafts, games and other themed items to help keep children and young people occupied over the Easter holiday period. Here’s how you can get involved.Traditionally the children’s wards at Hull Royal Infirmary receive kind offers of chocolate treats for...
Welcome to our first newsletter of the year! Are you ready to help us do more in 2024?! This update is filled to brim with our events for the year, and not forgetting our happy news! We’ve joined Run for Charity to bring lots of fresh races this year, but worry not, your favourites are...
Michael McInerney, aged 83 has always loved the great outdoors, as a keen cyclist taking part in cycle cross, dashing through the countryside. Michael took up running in his mid-50’s as he took part in his first marathon in Boston Lincolnshire. He loved the course, and the wonderful surroundings. The following April, he secured a place for the London...
Welcome to our festive events newsletter! We’d like to share some of the ways you can get involved to help us spread some magic and joy to wards across Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital this Christmas. Read about our National Elf Service, Christmas WISHHes, Santa Run and more! We’re inviting everybody to help us...