Company Giving
Christmas Wishes
During this season of giving, we want to be there for every sick child every day. Will your company be one of those that helps to make our vital work possible? With a gift this Christmas, your impact on a child's life — of an entire family — could be immense.
What is the greatest gift you could give a sick child?
By being part of our Christmas Wishes appeal — with a donation at any of our giving levels — you could be part of the circle of care that includes the expert staff at Children’s Health Ireland hospitals.
Your company’s generosity could power the pioneering work being done by doctors, nurses, surgical teams, therapy specialists, and a host of others — all unified by the same wish: to give every sick child every chance.
Here are just some of the things your gift could help provide.
- Essential equipment. At Children’s Health Ireland hospitals, young patients benefit from state-of-the-art equipment at every stage of their journey. But progress is always being made, with new inventions building on the latest science — your generosity can help keep us at the forefront of treatment and care.
- Patient and parental support. From travel costs to play and music therapy, there are a whole host of ways in which the kindness of our supporters enables us to give the very best to our young patients and their loved ones.
- Life-changing research. Be part of the search for breakthrough cures for deadly diseases, new drug treatments for rare medical conditions or technological innovations that improve our ability to diagnose childhood illness.
Christmas Wishes
Companies large and small give gifts of all sizes to our Christmas Wish appeal. We are deeply grateful for each donation, at every one of our giving levels.
Below you can learn more about our various Christmas Wish giving levels, and the ways in which we like to say thank you to the companies who donate.
Compassionate wish - €10,000
€10,000 could help support vital research which helps find cures and safer treatment for childhood cancers.
To reward your generosity, your company will receive:
- Top logo billing in our Sunday Times feature advert on 12th January
- Feature on our website highlighting your company’s generosity
- Dedicated social media post from Children’s Health Foundation
- Thank you graphic for your social media
- Christmas Wishes campaign email signature
- Christmas Wishes campaign printable poster
Generous wish - €5,000
€5,000 could help fund vital equipment, such as a cardiac monitor which will help the Cardiac Team continue to keep little hearts beating.
To reward your generosity, your company will receive:
- Premium logo billing in our Sunday Times feature advert on 12th January
- Feature on our website highlighting your company’s generosity
- Thank you graphic for your social media
- Christmas Wishes campaign email signature
- Christmas Wishes campaign printable poster
Caring wish - €2,500
€2,500 could help support wellbeing initiatives for our healthcare heroes in CHI hospitals and urgent care centres.
To reward your generosity, your company will receive:
- Listing in our Sunday Times feature advert on 12th January
- Feature on our website highlighting your company’s generosity
- Christmas Wishes campaign email signature
- Christmas Wishes campaign printable poster
Kind wish - €1,000
€1,000 could help fund a vital medical scope for CHI Outpatient Departments.
To reward your generosity, your company will receive:
- Feature on our website highlighting your company’s generosity
- Christmas Wishes email signature
- Christmas Wishes printable poster
Your support could help a child like Sophie
My little Sophie spent her first eighteen months in the hospital, facing life-threatening medical issues. She’s two and a half now, doing much better, and this will be her first ever Christmas at home — we’re all so excited, her included! One day, when she’s big enough to ask, my husband Alan and I will sit her down and tell her all about that scary time, when we were just hanging on to any hope we could find.
What will we tell her? Well, I’m sure we’ll tell her about the eighteen months of tremendous worry and anxiety for me and Alan, the eighteen months of serious conversations with doctors and other medical staff, the eighteen months of breathing tubes and strange equipment beeping.
Eighteen months of wondering when — wondering if — we could ever bring our daughter back home.But do you know what else we’ll tell her about? We’ll talk about the eighteen months of her getting the absolute best possible care from some of the amazing and most skilled people I have ever met.
We’ll tell her about the eighteen months of knowing we were in exactly the right place, in just the right hands, surrounded by an unbreakable circle of care.
We’ll share some of the happy memories, we’ll tell her about the forever friends we made and the astonishing levels of support we had.
And best of all, we’ll tell her about the eighteen months we spent watching our beautiful baby girl grow bigger and stronger — through surgeries and recoveries, through setbacks and leaps ahead, from season to season and across two Christmases — until in January this year we were finally able to bring her home.
Sophie is our first child — our absolute treasure. When she was born, our excitement at being new parents turned quickly into shock and concern, as doctors discovered our baby girl had some severe health problems. Her breathing, her heart and her ability to feed were all affected.
All of this came as a huge shock to me and Alan, but Children’s Health Ireland was a true beacon of hope for us in this dark time. What an incredible place, and so much of what makes it amazing is possible thanks to the support of people just like you!
When we first arrived, the doctors said that Sophie might be in hospital for three to six months, which at the time felt like an eternity. If you had told us we would be a year and a half in the Transitional Care Unit (TCU), I honestly don’t know if I could have believed you. But that’s exactly what happened.
I could tell you all about Sophie’s surgeries over those eighteen months, but instead I’d like to focus on some of those positive memories of our time in hospital — the things I can’t wait to tell her about, when she’s old enough.
- Sophie had regular play therapy and music therapy while in the hospital. This was her time to have fun and she absolutely loved it! When the therapy team would arrive, Sophie’s face would light up the room.
- We celebrated Sophie’s first birthday in the hospital. My goodness, what a party the staff threw her! She wouldn’t have had as big a birthday at home! So many people came down to see her in TCU, and all her teams and specialists gave her presents. It turned out to be a really wonderful day – one we truly will never forget.
- Sophie spent two Christmases in hospital. It was hard for us to be away from family, but both years ended up being lovely. Sophie was in awe of all the decorations and lights. Santa came and spoiled her, and the hospital staff went above and beyond to make sure we had the best Christmas as a family.
- The staff made sure Alan and I were truly looked after, as well as encouraging us to take a break — have a cup of tea, or a walk in the garden — when we looked like we needed it.
It’s strange to think that we have such positive memories from this incredibly difficult time in our lives, but the healthcare teams are true experts in providing that sense of warmth and care — they can shine the light of hope even in the darkest times.
And this is the gift you can give other families this Christmas, by donating to the Christmas Wishes appeal.
Sophie makes our day every day. She is always so bubbly, happy and smiling — she is really thriving at home and making such encouraging progress. It’s like a light switch has been turned on in her, and we can’t wait to see what she does next.
We have so much to be thankful for. And one day I’ll tell her how we got here.
Melissa
Sophie’s mum
Our Amazing Christmas Wishes Supporters
