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LATEST NEWS
Christmas Wishes: Katie Bears and Medals
Watch our full 2024 Christmas appeal video here.Thanks to your amazing fundraising, Children’s Heart Surgery Fund (CHSF) are able to give Katie Bears, medals and certificates to every baby and child who has open heart surgery at Leeds As the following blog shows, this...
Christmas Wishes: Life saving Sonography training
Watch our full 2024 Christmas appeal video here."On the 7th Day of Christmas, our nurses really need – life saving training!" Thanks to your donations, Rosie Brakefield was appointed as Lead Cardiac Physiologist for the Yorkshire and Humber Congenital Heart Disease...
Christmas Wishes: Life saving training
Watch our full 2024 Christmas appeal video here."On the 7th Day of Christmas, our nurses really need – life saving training!" Thanks to your donations, CHSF were able to pay for ECMO training and accommodation in Birmingham for four Leeds-based Paediatric Intensive...
COMMUNITY FUNDRAISING
Shake, Rattle and Boogie for #WearRedDay
Join CHSF's Family Support Worker, Sarah Cherry, for a fun, interactive and FREE music and dance session with Shake, Rattle and Boogie!! Here's all the details you need: Child ages: 2-10 years old This free virtual session will take place on Friday 5th February from...
WEAR RED DAY: Free video call backgrounds
WEAR RED DAY VIDEO CALL BACKGROUNDS Whether it's for a lockdown Zoom quiz or for a week of meetings at work, we have plenty of red backdrops to choose from! Just click 'DOWNLOAD', right click on the image and select 'Save image...
#CHSF1in100Challenge: £100 before midnight
Heart mum AMANDA and her son KAYDEN were officially our last fundraisers of 2020, and our first of 2021 - starting our new year with a BANG! What a year 2020 had been! New Year’s Eve afternoon we sat as family and looked back at the year. When the clock struck...
CORPORATE
Display Wizard work their magic for Wear Red Day
Preston-based business Display Wizard have conjured up a fantastic set of four free banners to help us promote Wear Red Day. Display Wizard specialise in pop-up banners, pop-up displays and all manner of displays for exhibitions and trade shows. Corporate Fundraiser...
New Trustee wanted: please share!
Children's Heart Surgery Fund (CHSF) is looking to appoint a new member to our Board of Trustees. Download the full prospectus here. The board is the governing body within the CHSF. It sets the direction of the organisation, ensuring we continue to achieve our mission...
Great feedback from mobile ECGs
Back in May this year we bought 80 Kardia Mobile ECG heart tracing devices for patients with congenital heart disease. The kit enable patients to measure their heart rate, wherever they are, by attaching the device to the back of their phone and holding onto it for a...
EVENTS
Say NO in NOvember
What could you say NO to this NOvember?BAN THE BOOZE Wave goodbye to the wine. Say 'Laters!' to the Lager. Could you put away the Prosecco and quit your favourite tipple for November?FORGET THE FAST FOOD Banish the burgers. Pack in the pizza. Uninstall UberEats and...
Firewalk
Can you handle the heat? Face your fears and walk on hot coals this November to raise life-saving funds for our heart unit, patients and families. DateSunday 19th November 2023 Time3:30pm - 7:30pm LocationMorley Cricket Club, LS27 0JJYou will undertake an intense...
Summit Ben Nevis Challenge
Challenge yourself to reach the UK’s highest peak to raise funds for CHSF! If you’re up for a challenge then walking to the top of Britain’s highest mountain, Ben Nevis (Beinn Nibheis), is a pretty good one to undertake. Ben Nevis, standing at 1345m (4,413ft), is on...
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
Notable achievements in 2016
Children's Heart Surgery Fund have had a great 2016, thanks to you, the wider CHSF team and all the staff at the Leeds Congenital Heart Unit. We've all but reached halfway in our Keeping The Beat campaign, hosted numerous fundraising events (including Wear Red Day...
LEEDS CONGENITAL HEART UNIT
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
Your generosity can really mean the world to children and adults with congenital heart disease across Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.
Whatever you can give will make a huge difference!
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Hanover Walk
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0113 831 4810
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Registered Charity Number:
1148359
Registered Company Number:
8152970