Fundraising

A local rugby team has scrummed down to raise more than £1,000 for a hospital’s MRI scanner appeal. The generous players from Northallerton Rugby Club and their guests raised a terrific £1,145.00 at their end-of-season ball towards the Friarage Hospital’s scanner appeal.

Lindsey Blackburn, 30, has kick started the ultimate challenge with the first of her ‘Mile2marathon’ events to help tiny babies at the neonatal intensive care unit at James Cook.

Dare devil June Parsons is aiming high and facing her fears to help the NHS where she has been both a member of staff and a patient. Former nurse, June, retired from Middlesbrough’s The James Cook University Hospital after 35 years working in the NHS.

The Tour of Teesside is a 44.1 Mile sponsored bike ride that will take in some of the area’s biggest land marks on Sunday 29 May 2016. The multi-charity event is the first of its kind to be held in Teesside.

The Friarage Hospital’s stoma care department is holding an open day for ostomy patients at The Golden Lion Hotel, Northallerton. To be held on Tuesday 24 May 2016 from 11am to 2pm in the Yorkshire Suite, Golden Lion Hotel, High Street, Northallerton, the open day is a great opportunity for patients to meet with representatives from stoma manufacturers and view the most up to date products including support garments and underwear suitable for ostomy patients.

Adventurous students from Teesside University are taking on a mammoth challenge for The Golden Jubilee spinal cord injuries centre at The James Cook University Hospital. The intrepid students, aged between 20 and 35, are tackling the National Three Peaks Challenge – climbing the three highest peaks in England, Wales and Scotland – Ben Nevis (4,409 feet) Scafell Pike (3,209 feet) and Snowdon (3,560 feet) – in 24 hours on 24 to 25 May 2016.

Redcar mum Linsey Robinson is pulling on her running shoes for the IVF team at The James Cook University Hospital because without them her son Harvey would not be here. Linsey, 31, is set to take on the Edinburgh Marathon on Sunday 29 May to help support others who are undergoing IVF treatment at the Middlesbrough unit.

MB DIY based on Skippers Lane, Middlesbrough really pulled out all the stops to help patients on James Cook’s ward 14 a – smashing their fundraising target at the same time. Thanks to the staff’s phenomenal fundraising efforts they raised over £6,000 for the ward which looks after cancer patients, well above their original ambitious target of £5,000.

An intrepid trio are tackling the gruelling 146 mile coast-to-coast cycle ride from Whitehaven to Sunderland to help future cancer patients and to thank the caring hospital staff at The James Cook University Hospital for looking after loved ones.Adrian Robson’s wife, Claire, has had more than her fair share of ill health. Accompanied by Claire’s dad, Derek Walker and close family friend David Cowdell he is taking on this challenging cycle ride to thank the dedicated staff from the department of radiotherapy and oncology’s Endeavour unit and chemotherapy day unit – the two hospital department’s where she is receiving treatment

A kind-hearted couple have raised an amazing £9,268.38 for the neonatal unit at The James Cook University Hospital in memory of their son, Noah Barrie Tansley, who was born prematurely at 34 weeks on 5 November 2015.