Variety Club Children's Hospitals

The Variety Club has funded specialist facilities for sick children up and down the UK, including Yorkhill Children's Hospital in Glasgow, Salisbury District Hospital and many others. Our flagship project is the Variety Club Children's Hospital at King's College Hospital, London. We also support Great Ormond Street Hospital, where the Variety Club Building was opened in 1994 by Diana, Princess of Wales. It replaced a crumbling 1875 wing with a brand new, state-of-the-art clinical facility.

The Variety Club Children's Hospital (VCCH) opened its doors at King's College Hospital in 1985. VCCH is a leader in the fields of liver disease, neurosurgery, cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease. Sick children come from all over the United Kingdom to receive the highest quality of medical care. The hospital also provides a busy general paediatric and paediatric surgical service to the local community, as well as neonatal intensive care for very sick and preterm babies.

We work in partnership with King's College Hospital to raise funds for ongoing refurbishment and the latest equipment, to ensure that VCCH remains one of the UK's leading children's units, treating and caring for more than 40,000 sick children every year. Over the last five years, with our support, all five wards have been completely refurbished with the children and their carers in mind:  there are now 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.

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