Our charitable activity

Westfield Health is proud to have a Charitable Trust, which every year makes substantial donations to the NHS and medically related charities. We target those areas of healthcare where our donations will have a real impact on people’s quality of life.

Our Charitable Trust supports so many good causes including:

Barnsley Hospice has been given a £5000 donation from Westfield to help towards buying a new specialist ambulance that will be used to transport day patients to and from their homes and on day trips.

Yorkshire Air Ambulance Appeal – their ‘10Minute Appeal’ has taken off thanks to a £25,000 donation from Westfield. The donation will help towards the running costs and maintenance of the life-saving Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA).

SeeAbility is a charity that is dedicated to improving eyecare and vision for people with learning disabilities. A Westfield donation of £10,000 will help support the current campaign of the charity’s Sheffield project.

Freeman College – Sheffield’s newest educational college is set to improve its disability access after a £10,000 donation from Westfield. Freeman College is a further education charity that teaches young people with autistic spectrum disorders and developmental delay.

Derbyshire County Primary Care Trust (PCT) used a donation from Westfield to purchase two portable Electrocardiogram machines for its heart failure service.
  
Weston Park Hospital in Sheffield has been given a £25,000 donation by Westfield to provide a ‘Look Good, Feel Good Suite’ in the newly opened Chemotherapy Unit and a massage chair in the hospital’s specialised Teenage Cancer Unit.
 
The Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland benefited from Westfield Health’s £5000 charitable donation. Scotland has the highest incidence of MS in the world, affecting approximately 10,500 people.

Sheffield Theatres Trust - hard of hearing and deaf people from across South Yorkshire can now fully enjoy the world’s greatest plays and musicals, thanks to the aid of new technology. Sheffield Theatres Trust has installed Stagetext captioning equipment to their Crucible and Lyceum Theatres in the city, following a donation from Westfield Health.

Nottingham City Hospital are benefiting from a new colposcope and an electrosurgical unit at the Women’s Unit thanks to Westfield’s donation. Both are used in the diagnosis and treatment of women with abnormal surgical smears.

Defibrillators - Westfield is continuing its life-saving initiative to provide defibrillators to many different business and leisure venues in Sheffield, as part of the drive to reduce the risk of death following a cardiac arrest.

Nurses Travel Scholarships - Westfield has continued to fund travel scholarships for nurses from South Yorkshire, Trent, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland, enabling them to witness best practice throughout the world and implement ideas and innovations that are of benefit to the NHS.  For further information on a Westfield Nurses Travel Scholarship, please call 0114 250 2058 or email scholarship@westfieldhealth.com