We fund specialist equipment, patient services and comforts, clinical care, local research and training so that our maternity and gynaecology teams can offer the best possible outcomes for babies and mums in the Central Lancashire and Chorley area. With the charity’s support, our neonatal unit continues to provide exceptional care for premature and sick babies and their families from across Lancashire and South Cumbria.
Remember your baby, or honour others grieving the loss of theirs, by selecting a digital candle, uploading an image and your personal message of love, remembrance or support and making a donation.
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Recently, we've mentioned a few of the ways we are marking Baby Loss Awareness Week this October, including our Walk to Remember on Sunday the 10th, and the sale of our Baby Beat candles 🧡🕯
We also have a special online page of remembrance, to raise funds to support important projects to benefit those families who sadly suffer the heartache of baby loss - recent examples of these projects include the development of a pregnancy loss room, and a bereavement suite, here at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Using this page, you can make a donation and light a digital candle, helping create a virtual wave of light to remember those lives that brightened up the world for too short a time. You can also write a personal message of remembrance, support, or reflection. 🙏
All donations made through our Visufund will help make such a difference for the local families who sadly have to go through the loss of a baby. If you'd like to make a donation, and write your own personal message in memory, or in support of a loved one, please visit visufund.com/baby-loss-awareness
Thank you so much to Vari Welford, Clare Gardner, and Ellie Montague-Lowe from the Pathology team here at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - they have raised a wonderful £800 for Baby Beat by selling snacks and drinks through a charity tuck shop in the Pathology staff room! Thank you to all of the amazing staff for donating into their honesty box too 🥰🧡
They chose to fundraise for us to say thank you for the months of superb care that Clare's baby girl, Eloise, received here at the Neonatal Unit after her birth at 26 weeks. Eloise has now just started school as a feisty 5-year-old! 🙌
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We have a digital page of remembrance especially for October's #BabyLossAwarenessWeek, to raise funds for projects to support those who suffer the heartache of baby loss. You can make a donation & write a personal message in memory or honour🧡🕯️
See more: https://visufund.com/baby-loss-awareness
It's now even easier to support the babies & mums cared for here at @LancsHospitals - we've enabled text donations! 🥰📱
Simply text BABYBEAT +amount to 70085 - so BABYBEAT 3 would donate £3, BABYBEAT 10 would give £10, etc. Texts cost the donation amount + your standard rate.🧡
We'd like to say a huge thank you to Vari Welford, Clare Gardner, and Ellie Montague-Lowe from the Pathology team here at @LancsHospitals - they have raised a wonderful £800 for Baby Beat by selling snacks and drinks through a charity tuck shop in the Pathology staff room! 🧡🥰👏
Thank you so much to 13-year-old Kaitlyn Marsden, of Lea, who took on the incredible challenge of cycling 50 laps of Preston's Jubilee Park to raise funds for Baby Beat! 🧡💪🚴♀️
Kaitlyn cycled a total of 15 kilometres around the park in one day, during the summer holidays, to show support for the poorly babies on the neonatal unit here at @lancshospitals. She was supported on her challenge by mum Adelle and her Aunt, Victoria, who set up her Just Giving page for her to help her raise funds. She's now managed to raise a wonderful £465!
Thank you for your kind support, Kaitlyn - the money raised will help make a huge difference for the babies, mums, and mums-to-be that our NHS colleagues care for! 🙏🥰👶
#charityfundraising #cyclechallenge #neonatalcare #nicuawareness #lancashire #maternitycare
Thank you to Zoe Walker and her family, who held a street party in their hometown of Adlington on the 10th of July.
They coincided the event with the #NHSBigTea in honour of the NHS's birthday, and chose to fundraise for Baby Beat on the day. Around 50 people attended the event, which included a raffle, games and face painting, and Zoe's grandma Sheila organised an afternoon tea. The street party raised a wonderful £465! 🥰☕️🍰🧁
Zoe, with help from her family, organised the party in memory of her baby son, Arthur Thomas Walker, who was born at 26 weeks in May 2018, and was cared for on the NICU at @lancshospitals - she wanted to say thank you to NHS staff and particularly to the neonatal team who looked after him. 🧡
#charityfundraising #nicu #maternitycare #lancashire #royalprestonhospital #prematurityawareness #thankyounhs #nhsheroes
Thank you so much to Melissa Kavanagh, who raised a wonderful £630 for Baby Beat by taking part in our Cross Bay Walk earlier in the Summer with her sister Cheryl. Melissa, from Askam-in-Furness, Cumbria, chose to support us following the care that her baby daughter, Grace, received on the Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit at Royal Preston. She was born prematurely at 26 weeks, and spent 11 weeks in total on the Unit under the care of our fab NHS colleagues – but is now healthy and happy at home with mum Melissa, dad Ben, and big brother George! 🥰🙏
They raised the amazing amount thanks to the generosity of family, friends and colleagues – and it will help us make such a difference for the babies, mums, and mums-to-be cared for on our maternity, neo-natal, and gynae wards here at @lancshospitals 🧡
#fundraising #neonatalcare #royalprestonhospital #charityfundraising #nhsheroes