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LATEST NEWS
World Heart Day: Collaboration Is Key!
CHSF work to champion the Leeds Congenital Heart Unit as a world-class centre of excellence, and are proud to have collaborated with other local charities for the greater good in recent years. Working together with like-minded charities can benefit from economies of...
A warm welcome to our new CEO
Children’s Heart Surgery Fund (CHSF) welcomes Ruth Davany as new CEO Ruth will begin her new role in December - replacing Interim CEO Kate Hainsworth, who has stewarded the charity in 2024 and helped to recruit a permanent leader. Ruth comes from her role as CEO of...
Design a Heart Competition for World Heart Day
DESIGN A HEART COMPETITIONCelebrate World HeART Day with our Design A Heart competition! This is your chance to shine - whether you love to draw, paint, or craft, create a heart that shows your journey with CHD, remembers a loved one, celebrates those who've helped...
COMMUNITY FUNDRAISING
VIRTUAL 10K
After the incredible success of last year's event, CHSF invite you take part in our Virtual 10K for 2021! On Sunday 4th July, we want you to join #TeamCHSF and pledge to journey 10K in your local area and support hearts for life.How will it work? Be ready at your...
Fundraiser of the Month: Team Rose
Heart warrior Rose was born with a very complex, terminal heart defect - Interrupted Aortic Arch. A defect that only 1 in 50,000 babies are born with. Even before Rose was born, her family were fundraising for CHSF. #TeamRose have completed their latest fundraising...
Fundraiser of the Month: In memory of Isaac Robert Worthington
Halifax Panthers star Greg Worthington and his wife Amy presented a cheque to Children’s Heart Surgery Fund for nearly £10,000 after fundraising in memory of their little boy Isaac. The family chose to support Children’s Heart Surgery Fund because Isaac was diagnosed...
CORPORATE
Wear Red Day Press Round-up
Here’s a round-up of some of the brilliant newspaper and TV coverage we received around this year’s Wear Red Day. York Press York Press produced two amazing pieces about baby Jude, who has been in hospital for 7 months since birth and was just about to receive his...
Where your money goes
Children's Heart Surgery Fund only exists because of your amazing fundraising and donations. Thanks to you, we’ve been able to approve some exciting projects for funding. Read on for some prime examples of how your donations are helping the Leeds Congenital Heart Unit...
Guest Blog: Why icelolly.com Support CHSF
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EVENTS
Organise a supermarket bag pack
Bag packs are a great way to fundraise with family and friends and raise awareness for Children’s Heart Surgery Fund. It’s simple and easy to get started! If you’ve not heard of a bag pack before, it’s where a group of volunteers help shoppers pack, and ask for a...
Fundraiser of the Month: Patrick, Danny and Nick take on the Manchester Marathon
Despite never running a marathon before, heart dad Patrick chose to take on the 2023 Manchester Marathon in aid of Children’s Heart Surgery Fund after his daughter received life-saving open heart surgery at Leeds. Inspired by Patrick’s determination, close friends...
Rope in the whole family for the 2023 Abseil
This year's abseil will be a family affair as heart hero Danny has roped his mum Gillian into daring the drop yet again to raise money for CHSF! After Gillian's jump out of a plane and the pair taking part in our abseil in 2019, Danny and his mum tell us a bit more...
REAL STORIES
Warrior Wednesday: Freya
The McCombe family were just settling in at home as a new family of four when the midwife noticed something wasn't quite right with baby Freya. Freya's mum, Holly, tells us about their journey with congenital heart disease so far and how Freya and her family have been...
Introducing new trustee Colin Clewes
Colin Clewes is an adult CHD patient and owns Pennine Signs in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire! Colin has had a coarctation repair, a partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage repaired and he has a bicuspid aortic valve. He has been a huge CHSF supporter over the years,...
Warrior Wednesday: The Story of Raeyaan
Heart dad Kapre wanted to make sure his son Raeyaan knew everything about his heart journey when he got older, and so Kapre committed to writing everything down in a book - 'The Story of Raeyaan'. In this blog we share the some of the first chapters of this amazing...
FAMILY
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WHAT YOU’VE FUNDED
Ruth Foley: Research Nurse role
Hello, I’m Ruth and because of you and your fundraising I am newly appointed as Congenital Cardiac Research Nurse. I have been working as a Children’s Nurse for 14 years - initially in acute medicine in Bradford before coming to Leeds to work on the Paediatric...
3D Heart Printer already making a difference!
The 3D heart printer funded by the tremendous generosity of contributors to Global’s Make Some Noise campaign in 2017, is starting to have a life-saving impact within the adult cardiology team. The picture shows the actual printed heart of a patient being considered...
Keeping the Beat: An Update
We spoke to Dr John Thomson, Lead Clinician for Congenital Cardiology to find out what life is like working at the Leeds Congenital Heart Unit now the new ‘Keeping the Beat’ Hybrid Theatre is open…
What has the hybrid enabled you to achieve that you couldn’t before?
“First of all, we’re now completely adjacent
LEEDS CONGENITAL HEART UNIT
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JOBS & OPPORTUNITIES
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PRESS
A highly significant donation from Yorkshire Children’s Hospital Fund
Children’s Heart Surgery Fund (CHSF) are thrilled to announce a highly significant donation from Yorkshire Children’s Hospital Fund (YCHF) towards the upcoming revolutionary children’s heart theatre at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI). YCHF have contributed an incredible...
Legendary cricket umpire and commentator Dickie Bird OBE has donated £30,000 to Children’s Heart Surgery Fund (CHSF), and become their new ambassador
CHSF is honoured to announce legendary cricket umpire and commentator Dickie Bird OBE as their new charity ambassador.
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