New Pyjamas Campaign

The new pyjamas campaign has been established to raise £15 million for Scotland’s new Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids) to be built in Edinburgh by 2013.

The government, NHS Scotland, NHS Lothian and other charities will provide over £130m for the new Sick Kids hospital, which will be a world leading centre for paediatric healthcare.

The money raised by the new pyjamas campaign will pay for research, capital equipment and support and services for patients and their families which are not part of standard NHS budgets.

The campaign is part of The Sick Kids Friends Foundation (Scottish Charity No. SC020862), a charity set up in 1992 to provide services to children, young people and families who use the Sick Kids.

The new pyjamas campaign relies solely on voluntary donations.

The funds raised by the new pyjamas campaign will be used to provide services and support for patients and their families. This will include family accommodation and support facilities immediately adjacent to the new Sick Kids hospital, which will allow family members to stay close at hand when their child is in hospital.

With your support, the new pyjamas campaign will also fund state of the art capital equipment at the forefront of paediatric medicine, as well as life saving research.

The Sick Kids is the only children’s hospital in the UK to have a Drop In centre where patients and their families can escape the clinical environment of the wards. Funds from the new pyjamas campaign will pay for the new Drop In centre to be built next door to the new Sick Kids hospital.

You can help us by running the New York Marathon. Regardless of how much you raise, it will help improve the stay of a sick kid and their family during one of the most difficult times of their lives.

To find out more about the packages Sport Tours has available for the 2010 ING New York City Marathon please take a look at the New York Marathon web pages.

If you would like to get in touch with us directly to find out more about the new pyjamas campaign please contact +44 (0)131 659 7010, or visit our website at www.newpyjamas.org