How we help

Support for children and families

A hospital stay affects the whole family. Thanks to your support, we fund the play, emotional support and moments of joy that help children still be children, and help families cope during what can be long and difficult times.

What your support funds

The Noah's Ark Children's Hospital for Wales provides world-class clinical care, but a hospital stay is about so much more than treatment. Children can be separated from family, friends and everything familiar, and parents are often trying to hold everything together whilst worrying about their child.

That's why we fund services that support the whole family. Our play team helps children understand and cope with what's happening to them. Our counselling and music therapy services give children and families a safe space to talk, express and process difficult emotions. And our sparkle activities make sure birthdays, Christmas and everyday hospital life still have moments worth smiling about.

The support patients and families receive

Counselling

Music Therapy

Sparkle

Specialist play

What your money could buy

£15

could fund a pack of essentials for a family admitted in an emergency.

£30

could go towards a ventilator for the paediatric critical care unit.

£55

could fund a ward counsellor to help a family process a difficult diagnosis for half a day.

78

children with complex heart conditions were able to access advanced 3D scanning

100%

of radiology patients felt less worried about their MRI scan thanks to the newly installed specialist DVD player

64

cardiac families supported through a Beads of Courage programme.