Winter Fundraising Appeal
2024/25
£63,400!
You did it – and more! Thank you for helping us exceed our £50,000 fundraising target!
We’re thrilled to share the fantastic news that thanks to your incredible generosity, Mildmay’s Fundraising Appeal has raised £63,400 - far surpassing our £50,000 target!
Launched on World AIDS Day 2024, this campaign ran through to the end of April 2025. Every donation, share, and message of support helped us reach this amazing result.
Our chaplaincy team offers vital emotional and spiritual support to patients and families during their most challenging times. We’ve already secured £10,000 from a charitable trust, and now we have raised the remaining £15,000 to cover our chaplain’s salary and maintain these essential services for another year. Charitable donations also support key staff, such as our Substance Misuse Recovery Worker and Occupational Therapist, who play crucial roles in our patients’ holistic care and recovery.
We regularly need to replace and upgrade essential equipment that supports patient care and recovery, such as clinical tools like ECG machines, therapy equipment, and furnishings for patient rooms. With constant wear and tear, we need to replace numerous simple items such as a bedpan washer, upgraded soap dispensers, laundry and cleaning equipment and new treadmills for our physiotherapy rehabilitation centre - the list is endless! You are helping us maintain the highest standards of care that our patients rely on. See our Hospital Equipment Fund Page.
You are providing essential items like clothing, toiletries, and personal care for patients who often arrive at the hospital with nothing. Many come from challenging socio-economic backgrounds and struggle with disability, financial hardship, and housing issues. Some face long delays in receiving their benefits, which are often stopped during their stay in hospital, and without access to their post for months, this can cause significant stress. Additionally, many patients require replacement clothing due to issues like incontinence and others lack the funds for basic needs such as food, travel to their next care placement, or credit to stay connected with loved ones. By addressing these urgent needs, we can reduce stress, support recovery, and help our patients focus on rehabilitation and long-term independence. See our case study below.
These funds will help us enhance the lives of people living with HIV and those recovering from complex health conditions, including those related to homelessness.
Together, we are ensuring that they receive the compassionate care and support they need to rebuild their lives.
Thank you!
Case study
Recently, we purchased a mobility scooter for one of our patients, enabling them to be safely discharged into the community.
With ongoing medical issues and a 25-minute walk to their pharmacy, the scooter was essential for their independence and wellbeing.
With no support from other agencies available, we were able to contribute £100 from our own resources but the full cost of £865 was only made affordable from charitable funds and highlights the type of urgent support many of our patients need. Although such a large single outlay is rare, it highlights the need for having a pool of funds to support the wide range of items our patients might need, sometimes unexpectedly, or at short notice.
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"Your support today helps us give hope, healing, and dignity to those who need it most."
We are so grateful for the compassion of our donors
It is only with your generous support that we can continue to provide essential services and facilities for the vulnerable people entrusted to our care. Your contribution makes a real difference in their lives.
Running a modern hospital is expensive - about £12,000 per day! Roughly ninety per cent of the funding we need to run our UK hospital comes from our NHS contracts, but the remainder of our running costs and any additional costs of maintaining staff, services and facilities are entirely supported by charitable contributions.