We founded The Variety Children's Hospital in 1985. Since that time, working in partnership with King's College Hospital, we have supported ongoing refurbishment and equipment appeals, to ensure that it remains one of the UK's leading children's units, treating and caring for over 40,000 sick children every year.

The Variety Club Children's Hospital (VCCH) is renowned for providing high quality services to sick children in the fields of liver disease, neuro surgery, cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease. These patients come to the VCCH from all over the United Kingdom to receive their treatment. The hospital also provides a busy general paediatric and paediatric surgical service to the local community as well as neonatal intensive care to very sick and preterm babies.

Over the last five years, with our support, all five wards in The Variety Club Children's Hospital have been completely refurbished to provide a modern, bright and spacious environment, and have been designed with the children and their carers in mind: with specially made pull-down parent beds at every child's bedside. The children's critical care unit was opened in 2008, and is one of the most modern, best equipped units in the country.

When you see the amount of care and equipment needed to keep one little boy alive you appreciate the sheer scale of the costs involved. Reggie is now such a happy young boy with a quality of life that we could only have dreamed about.

Baby Reggie's mum

The Thomas Cook Critical Care Centre

After more than three years of teamwork between Variety Club, Thomas Cook and King's College Hospital in London, this state-of the art Children's Critical Care Centre at the Variety Club Children's Hospital was opened on 22nd May 2008. The 16-bed facility which houses Children's Intensive Care and High Dependency Units was funded thanks to the generous support of Thomas Cook staff and customers and will treat some of the country's sickest children.

Every inch of the new ward is been planned to detail, with soothing beach and sea images brightening up every bed space. Every part of the new facility has an instantly noticeable light and airy feel as soon as people walk through the doors. It is a wonderful environment for the nursing staff and doctors who have generous space in which to work with the new equipment, a luxury never before enjoyed. The facility provides a friendly and relaxed environment for the children being treated, with beds available for family members who wish to stay next to their children in the High Dependency Ward.

The TONI&GUY Charitable Foundation

The TONI&GUY Charitable Foundation pledged £700,000 to totally renovate one of the tired and congested wards in the Variety Club Children's Hospital. This allowed the Hospital, based at King's College Hospital, London to create the TONI&GUY Ward - a brand new state-of-the-art ward, with up-to-date equipment and large, spacious colourful rooms.

40,000 children are treated at this hospital every year and it is renowned for providing quality services for children who travel from across the country for specialist treatment, particularly in the fields of liver disease, neurosurgery, cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease.
The new TONI&GUY Ward makes sure that the Variety Club Children's Hospital can continue to provide the first class care they are renowned for.

If you'd like to find out more about the work which the Toni & Guy Charitable Foundation do at King's click here