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...
A charity appeal to bring the magic of Christmas to the area’s sickest children and older patients spending time in hospital is back! This year we have a little added help from Santa, courtesy of our friends at Holderness and Humberside Rotary Club.WISHH, the official charity of Hull Hospitals, would like to invite members of...
Welcome to our autumn update! Read ahead for our latest news and activities, plus a look ahead to fundraising events in the final quarter of the 2023. To start, we have some very exciting news… Last week we shared that a kind donor has offered to match fund donations made to our “Space to Grow” appeal,...