The Children’s Hospital Trust was founded in 1994 as the independent Fundraising Arm of the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital when the Hospital was threatened with closure due to lack of funding. Since its inception the Trust has supported the Hospital through upgrading its buildings, purchasing vital equipment and funding critical training and research programmes.

In 2011 the Children’s Hospital Trust will continue to assist the Hospital, as it has done for the past 17 years by raising funding to address the many pressing needs at the Hospital. The Trust will also be expanding its funding reach to projects beyond the Hospital’s doors within the Western Cape, which will directly impact paediatric healthcare and thereby indirectly impact patient outcomes and services in the Hospital as well as reduce the burden on the Hospital.

Research conducted by the Children’s Hospital Trust into the gaps in paediatric healthcare confirmed that needs exist outside of the Hospital’s doors which require funding ranging from paediatric safety education to child rehabilitation. The first Trust expanded-reach fundraising project is the equipping of four METRO Emergency Medical Services (EMS) ambulances with additional specialist paediatric equipment. This will improve EMS pre-hospital and inter-hospital services rendered to Neonate and Infant patients in the Western Cape.

The Children’s Hospital Trust operational costs are funded from an endowment, ensuring that 100% of all donations received go directly to the specified projects and programmes at the Hospital. The same ethos will be applied for projects beyond the Hospital’s doors. Not a cent will be used for administration or operational expenses.

The Children’s Hospital Trust’s broader vision is ‘to assist the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital by funding their identified priority capital, equipment research and training projects, while also funding prioritised projects beyond the Hospital’s doors, which impact paediatric healthcare in the Western Cape’.

Operates in: Cape Town, Western Cape
Established in: February 1994

Non-Profit Organisation Number:
Public Benefit Organisation Number: 930004493
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Contact person: Philippa Douglas
Phone: 021 686 7860
Fax: 021 686 7861
Email:

Website: www.childrenshospitaltrust.org.za

Physical address: Ground Floor Nurses Home, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Klipfontein Road, Rondebosch
Postal address: Suite 259, Postnet X18, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7701