Autumn Ball supporting patients with dementia

Raising funds, supporting patients

1 Christmas Sparkle Day at Chase Farm Hospital 2 Volunteers support the Christmas draw 3 'Silent Saw' for Barnet Hospital children’s fracture clinic 4 Autumn Ball supporting patients with dementia 5 Children at the Cancer Christmas party 6 Natalie Forrest(left) – first Christmas at Chase Farm Hospital with Diane Ryan 7 Yoko in Japan preparing for the London Marathon 8 Steve Downer with Keith Hunt, MBE, fundraising for massage therapy 9 Celebrating 70 years of the NHS 10 The 'Superhero' team 2018 11 Michael Ayeni running the Big Half 12 Walk for Wards, Trent Park 13 Summer Solstice Nordic Walk on Hampstead Heath

The Royal Free Charity raises funds to provide and develop services that help patients and staff in all three hospitals within the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust: Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital. Our supporters are at the heart of everything we do, whether volunteering their time or contributing to our income through gifts and donations, regular giving, fundraising events, one-off campaigns and legacies.

Many of our fundraisers are patients, their carers or staff of the hospitals - they are crucial to our fundraising activities. During the year many took part in our calendar of events, including the London Marathon, Superhero and Santa runs, charity walks, cycle challenges and our comedy night. Many others organised imaginative events such as a white collar boxing night at York Hall in aid of scleroderma research, golf days and the Autumn Ball for dementia patients at Barnet Hospital. Businesses, charitable trusts and individual major donors also enable us

to fund innovative projects that make a real difference to patients’ treatment. Projects funded included two three-year fellowships for research on treatments of tremor dominant Parkinson’s disease, the purchase of high dependency monitors for maternity care, young volunteers at GP practices and the creation of a theatre space for dementia patients. We now have five charity shops which receive donated goods from the public and look forward to them becoming part of their local communities and making a significant contribution to our income.

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