Category: charity
5k Across the Bay – Charity swim returns for 2024
After a successful first year, the 5K Across the Bay open water swim is returning for 2024 and this time with a strong environmental fundraising theme.
Charity Shop raises £42k for Cancer Research at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
Volunteers from the Marazion Cancer Shop proudly presented Dr Duncan Wheatley with a cheque for £42,000 for the Cancer Research Charity Fund (a fund of the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Charity).
Charity hike completed; their hiking socks are hung out to dry!
In March, a team of friends, who met at St Columb Bowling Club, decided to raise money for three charities by completing a coastal hike, in honour of their friend Nigel Lawry who has received treatment at Royal Cornwall Hospital’s Sunrise Centre.
Vascular Studies service returns to Penzance thanks to generous donor
A grateful patient of the Vascular Studies Unit has funded a tilting examination couch to enable vascular scanning to return to West Cornwall Hospital in Penzance.
Pendennis team get on their bikes for charity
Pendennis Shipyard in Falmouth has earned a global reputation for the superyachts it builds, restores and refits. Now some of the company’s 500-strong workforce are also focusing on a less glamorous form of transport – bikes.
Pedal 4 Patients ‘Tour de Kernow’
Join us on an extraordinary journey through the breath-taking landscapes of Cornwall in Pedal 4 Patients Tour de Kernow, a 3-day charity cycling challenge that combines scenic beauty with a noble cause.
Bedside butterflies
The Butterfly Companion Volunteer Service is now a key part of end-of-life care at Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust (RCHT).
NHS Charities Together to fund projects solving loneliness across Cornwall
Royal Cornwall Hospitals Charity (RCHT Charity) has been awarded over a quarter of a million pounds from NHS Charities Together, to support projects tackling social isolation and loneliness across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
Bequests lead to MRI magic
Magical interactive games to play on the floor, impressive murals and virtual skylights – the new Trelawny Scanning Suite at Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro (RCHT) is bright and entertaining thanks to bequests made to the RCH Charity.
A Christmas heart of headland box
The first Heart of Headland Boxes of Kindness are being given out to all new chemo and immunotherapy patients at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro (RCHT).
