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Brighterway secure NHS charities together funding

In 2021, NHS Charities Together launched a grant fund enabling NHS organisations to support the long-term health and recovery of NHS staff, patients, community, and volunteers impacted by COVID- 19. Following consultation across the Trust, our Charity Brighterway submitted a grant to fund three areas of work, which included: To develop and deliver a Trust […]

Pool Table for Antelope House

brighterway recently funded the purchase of a new pool table for the service users at Antelope House!   Antelope House is a small hospital in the centre of Southampton dedicated to the treatment of adult mental health. Antelope House currently has three wards. Saxon Ward for men, Trinity Ward for women and Hamtun Ward, which […]

Charity Single ‘Every Journey starts with One Small Step’

We are happy to announce that our Charity Single ‘Every journey starts with One Small Step’ is available to download from 9th May! 🎸 Richard ‘Ricky’ Palmer has composed a song to mark Mental Health Awareness Week (09/05/22 – 15/05/22). The track, ‘Every journey starts with One Small Step’ was written specifically by the Portsmouth based […]

Christmas fun and bonding day at Parklands

We love hearing that our staff and patients are benefitting from your donations. We recently received this email from the Senior HSCA Development Lead at Parklands Hospital. ‘Parklands is a Southern Health Hospital for people with mental health issues and elderly with Dementia. We have 5 wards all together one is a PICU ward then […]

brighterway brings festive cheer to patients!

brighterway has brought festive cheer this Christmas by gifting patients across the Trust, gift boxes and Christmas trees to help their health and wellbeing. We have donated 52 boxes that have helped approximately 491 patients across Southern Health’s inpatient wards! The boxes included a wide variety of items including craft sets, Christmas trees and decorations, […]

brighterway Christmas Jumper Day

   Congratulations to the team from Austen House for winning our Christmas Jumper Day competition! A massive thank you to everyone who got involved, all of the funds raised will help support projects around the Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust that aim to improve the health and wellbeing of our staff, patients and community We’d […]

Christmas Tree for Leigh House Hospital

Last year Brighterway kindly funded a new Christmas Tree for Leigh House Hospital Reception.  Unfortunately, due to COVID restrictions they were not allowed to put it up. However, they have made up for it this year with this fantastic looking tree! We hope that all the patients, staff and visitors to Leigh House Hospital enjoy […]

brighterway October 2021

October was a fantastic month for brighterway! We support projects that aren’t covered by NHS funding and we’d love to continue funding these projects for our staff, patients and community. We couldn’t do it without your support and fundraising, so thank you 😁 Here’s a breakdown of the projects we funded last month. In total, […]
Step challenge

Two teams at Southern Health take on the ultimate challenge

During the month of April, two teams at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust took part in the ultimate step challenge. Following on from a Reset, Reflect & Refresh Virtual Away Day the Finance and Procurement teams set themselves a challenge to walk, run or cycle 874 miles virtually, the equivalent of walking from John O’ […]