The Beach Appeal - UHD Charity

With a fundraising target of £1.5million, The BEACH Appeal is one of our biggest ever fundraising initiatives.

We are calling everybody across Dorset and the surrounding areas to help us fund a variety of additional items that will ensure the new BEACH building at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital has everything it needs to take our healthcare into the future – above and beyond what the NHS will fund.

Over £500million has already been invested to reconfigure the services at University Hospitals Dorset to improve the way care is provided for the hundreds of thousands of patients that depend on our hospitals each year.

This new six-storey building is the size of 115 tennis courts and known as the ‘BEACH’ for Birth, Emergency, Critical Care and Children’s Health Department. This building will provide new purpose-built maternity and children’s units, an improved major emergency department and one of the biggest critical care units in the country.

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Your donation could contribute to a range of projects including:

We could help children experience joy and a break away from their clinical areas by raising funds for new indoor and outdoor play areas at the heart of the new Children’s Health Department.
We could provide a tranquil outdoor space for patients, visitors and staff caring for those that are critically unwell by raising funds for new wellbeing gardens adjacent to the Critical Care Unit.
We could provide mood lighting and bubble lamps for our maternity department to create a calm and relaxed environment and deliver enhanced sensory experiences for the birthing person.
We could fund four specially designed rooms that provide a comforting space for people with additional mental health needs within our Emergency Department.
We could provide sleep pods for Junior Doctors to get rest during their shifts.
We could provide technology for our brand-new classroom to improve accessibility and continuity of education for our young patients.

Thanks to generous donations across the local community, we are pleased to share we have a total of £567k raised and pledged towards our target so far. (2 January 2025)

Together we can make long-lasting differences to every patient, staff member and hospital visitor to come through the doors of this brand-new building.

If you choose to donate today, we can together ensure our BEACH building is one-of-a-kind.

Will you donate to The BEACH Appeal so that we can be there for you and your family more than ever before?

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If you would prefer to fundraise for The BEACH Appeal or would like more information on the future of our hospitals and how together with our NHS colleagues, you will be helping to transform healthcare across Dorset, please download the booklet or go to our fundraising page.