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Newcastle Hospitals Charity

Impact Report 2024/25

Newcastle Hospitals Charity funds projects that go further for Newcastle Hospitals' patients, staff and communities. In 2024-25, over 700 projects were supported with more than £9.5m committed — £6.8m to enhance patient experience, £1.9m for staff health and wellbeing, and £1.1m for research and innovation. The arts programme reached 250,000+ people; 220 volunteers gave 37,000 hours; and the COLO-SPEED bowel cancer research project has recruited 15,000 patients. The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation renewed cancer trials funding for three years.

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Patient experience grants (accessible baths, sensory equipment, memory boxes, dementia clocks); Haven end-of-life family suites; arts programme (music, pottery, photography, creative writing, shared reading); volunteer programme (meet and greet, ward support, assisted ventilation driver service); cancer trials research (Sir Bobby Robson Foundation); COLO-SPEED bowel cancer research; SPACE Pilot social prescribing for children; staff prehabilitation; robotic hospital cleaning Custom geography from upload: Newcastle upon Tyne / North East England

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 700+ projects funded totalling £9.5m in 2024-25; £6,812,814 to enhance patient experience; £1,908,008 for staff health and wellbeing
Key Metric 2 Arts programme reached 250,000+ patients, visitors and staff through 140+ creative engagement sessions; 7 freelance musicians delivering 20 live music sessions per week
Key Metric 3 220 volunteers gave 37,000 hours; YPAG NE (Young Persons Advisory Group) has 75 members who reviewed 140+ research projects and 80+ service improvement projects

Key Outcomes

  • Haven at Freeman Hospital opened November 2024 — provides shower and rest space for families of end-of-life patients; SPACE Pilot awarded NHS Charities Together Innovation Challenge funding; one of six nationally selected projects
  • COLO-SPEED has recruited 15,000 patients into 9 clinical trials; 94,000 people attended Northern Lights Newcastle 'Beacons of Light' featuring children patients' artwork; Sir Bobby Robson Foundation committed to re-fund cancer trials posts for further 3 years
  • £1.1m committed to 600+ small projects (under £5,000); North East Assisted Ventilation volunteer drivers covered 7,000+ miles supporting 250+ patients in Jan–April 2025; new Wag & Company therapy dog partnership launched

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North East

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