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BBC News
13-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
RAF Red Arrows raise money for Lincoln hospital children's wards
The RAF Red Arrows team has raised money for the children's wards at Lincoln County and support staff ran, swam, walked, rowed and cycled 8,000 miles (12,875 km), the distance to and from their home base of RAF Waddington to their pre-season training camps in Croatia and the end of the month-long deployment they had raised £460 for the Rainforest and Safari Hospitals charity manager Ben Petts said he was delighted to receive the donation. "The Red Arrows have generously supported us for several years and this latest donation brings the total amount raised to over £3,500," he said."We can use these funds to purchase extra pieces of equipment for the children's ward which will improve the lives of our young patients, their families and the staff who care for them."Staff from the children's wards recently visited RAF Waddington to meet some of the team's engineers who completed the challenge and witness an aerobatic of the visitors play leader Karen O'Connor expressed her thanks to the crew. "We are so grateful to the support from the Red Arrows team and the time they give to visit the ward and bring a little Christmas cheer to the children and families over the festive season," she to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here. Click here, to download the BBC News app from the App Store for iPhone and here, to download the BBC News app from Google Play for Android devices.
BBC News
27-04-2025
- Health
- BBC News
New hospital garden in Boston to provide sanctuary to patients
A new hospital garden aims to provide a sanctuary for patients and staff according to the charity which helped to fund garden has been opened at Pilgrim Hospital, in Boston, after being created by United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS trust previously opened a garden at Lincoln County Hospital last May and also one at Grantham and District Hospital in Goodwin, head of grants at NHS Charities Together, said the garden cost about £50,000 to complete. He said: "We're thrilled to see this wonderful garden open – just in time to see the spring bulbs still blooming."We know that getting outdoors in nature does wonders for both our physical and mental health, but we also know that this can be difficult for hospital patients and hard-working NHS staff."It's great that three hospitals across Lincolnshire, Grantham, Lincoln and Boston, now have green spaces like this, to be enjoyed by patients, staff and visitors alike."The gardens have been jointly funded by NHS Charities Together and the United Lincolnshire Hospitals Charity, to provide extra support for patients and staff that are not available through NHS budgets. Ben Petts, the charity's manager, added the outdoor spaces can help people have "space alone with your thoughts or precious moments with loved ones".He said: "We all hope we will never need to visit hospital, but if we do – we all appreciate a small area of sanctuary where you can have space alone with your thoughts or precious moments with loved ones."A lot of thought and care has been put into these gardens by our contractors at SPA Landscaping and also by members of the working group."These areas really are going to make a massive difference for our patients, colleagues and visitors."Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
BBC News
09-02-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Donations 'make a difference' for Lincolnshire hospital patients
Donation points at hospitals in Lincolnshire are helping to fund a variety of facilities not covered by NHS budget, a charity has Lincolnshire Hospitals Charity said the money raised has been used to fund a sanctuary garden, two community diagnostic centres and scalp cooling systems for patients being treated for charity said "every penny" collected would be used to support the projects they were "proud to be involved in".The collection points are at Lincoln, Boston and Grantham hospitals. Ben Petts, the charity's manager, said: "We now have these amazing donation points where anyone can make a donation in cash, on their bank card or by using their phone."Over the past 12 months, the charity said it had installed virtual sky panels in a maternity unit, purchased mobile phone charge banks for an emergency department and set up new community diagnostic centres in Skegness and Lincoln."Every donation really can help us to make a massive difference for patients, visitors and colleagues," Mr Petts donation points at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital, Boston are just inside the main entrances, while the one at Grantham and District Hospital is in the outpatients department to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
