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Did you know?
• At the end of 2014 the Trust had
a massive 151 different charitable
funds pots some with as little as
£6.99 in them!This made the job
of managing the funds extremely
difficult
• Many people leave us a gift in their
will, this year we received more than
£100,000 in legacy donations
• The Health Tree Foundation (HTF)
is already delivering on some of
the ‘circle of wishes’ requests. In
October the volunteers at Grimsby
hospital requested new chairs for
their desk in the main entrance.
With the support of the Smile
Foundation and Arco the HTF
secured three new chairs free of
charge.
Did you know we can get free money if
you Gift Aid your donation?
Gift Aid is a government scheme that
allows charities to claim the basic rate of
tax on every pound donated.
This means that every time a pound is
donated we actually get £1.25 into the
charity.
In order to claim Gift Aid we need
to know a few key things about our
donors and it is no extra cost to them
whatsoever.
All we need is their name, postcode
and confirmation that they are a UK tax
payer.
Health Tree Foundation will be sending
out new receipt forms that will make
claiming for Gift Aid so much easier.
Last year we only claimed £5,000 in Gift
Aid and missed out on £46,000 of free
money.
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Together
New identity for vital part of the Trust
Health Tree Foundation - what is it
and how it can help your patients
The Health Tree Foundation is the new
name for the Trust’s charitable funds.
Traditionally money has come into the
organisation through wards, departments,
external fundraisers, legacies and other
numerous channels. This has then been
managed by finance.
The Health Tree Foundation is taking on the
role of managing all of these separate funds
and ensuring money is spent where it is
needed.
It will also focus on raising more money
for the organisation through existing
national, regional and local funding
streams, grants and businesses. Heading
the team is Victoria Winterton, partnerships
manager, who is working alongside finance
and communications and marketing in
launching the new charity.
Victoria said: “The amount of money
local people raise for their local hospital is
absolutely amazing with about £300,000
raised each year.
“The aim of the new charity is to ensure this
money is spent in the most effective way to
ensure our patients have the best healthcare
in the UK.”
Charitable funds can help with things such
as:
• A £70,000 faxitron machine being
used for breast cancer patients
• Improving friends and family rooms
• Low level beds
• Staff training
• New specialist chairs for cancer
patients attending the Amethyst unit.
Victoria said: “Charitable funds can be used
for anything that makes a real difference to
the lives of patients, staff and their families.
“The launch of the charity means staff now
have the chance to get a slice of charitable
funds for their area. We are encouraging
people to get their thinking caps on and
come up with wishes which they think will
make a difference in their area.
“It could be a new piece of medical
equipment, new furniture, additional
training for their staff. No matter how weird
or whacky, let us have your wish and we will
see if we can make it come true.”
New funding zones
The Health Tree Foundation has created
16 new zones of funding which people
can donate to, and can apply for wishes
from.
The zones are all trustwide and cover all
three hospitals and community.
The new zones are as follows:
• The Big Thank You - to provide
people with the chance to say thank
you to the staff who look after them
while they are a patient
• Little Lives - this will be used to fund
things for midwifery and children
from birth up to the age of 18
• Critical care - this includes a
number of departments such as
A&E, intensive care unit and high
dependency unit, trauma unit and
minor injuries unit
• End of life care
• Cancer care - Amethyst, Pink Rose
Suite, Bottoms Up, oncology and
haematology, general head and
neck
• Big Red Heart - cardiology, coronary
care unit, cardiac rehabilitation,
cardio-respiratory, cardio vascular
• Surgery
• Golden Leaves - dementia, elderly
medical
• Rheumatology
• Medical
• Stroke
• Diabetes
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopaedic
• Research and diagnostics
• In Your Community - community
nursing and therapy.
See right as to how the circle of wishes will
work.
Staff can submit a wish via the Health
Tree Foundation website at: www.
healthtreefoundation.org.uk
Once a wish has been submitted the
charity will assess the merits of the wish
and anything over £50,000 will have to be
approved by the Trust’s Charitable Funds
Committee.
It is not just staff who can apply for a wish,
as it is open to Trust members, patients,
families, carers and members of the public.
Victoria said: “These are the people out
there in the community accessing our
services who know firsthand what will
improve their experience of coming into our
hospitals.”
The charity is also on hand to support
fundraisers boosting the charitable fund
coffers of the Trust by providing fundraising
toolkits, sponsorship forms, providing
publicity and offering advice and guidance.
“For a long time people have been tirelessly
raising money for us. The foundation
Victoria Winterton, partnerships manager
will ensure they receive the thanks and
recognition they so rightly deserve,” said
Victoria.
Victoria can be contacted on DPoW
2630 or by emailing her at: hello@
healthtreefoundation.org.uk
A perfect example from the Little Lives zone which saw two patient monitoring systems worth £1,000 bought for
the Disney ward at Scunthorpe hospital. Louise and James Mitchell raised the money in memory of their 10-year-old
daughter Hannah who spent a lot of her time on the ward as a patient before her death in June 2013. They raised
the money through a quiz night. Louise said: “The staff on the ward treated Hannah like family. She was well loved by
everyone. She was a frequent visitor to the ward but she was always made to feel special. In fact we were all made
to feel special.” Pictured from left: staff nurse Judy Algar, Margaret Anderson, Louise Mitchell, ward sister on Disney
Sharon Vickers and James Mitchell.
Circle of
wishes
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