Charitable

Hillingdon Carers is a registered charity employing staff to support unpaid carers who look after a person with an illness, disability or special need. Hillingdon Carers offers a number of services including: an information and advice centre (with advice also in a range of ethnic minority languages), expert welfare benefit advice, health advocacy, training for carers, a young carers’ project, older carers’ specialist support, breaks for carers and social outings, counselling and complimentary therapies. Carers need to register with the office: Hillingdon Carers, Luther Bouch House, 126 High Street, Uxbridge, UB8 1JT. Telephone: 01895 811206. Email: office@hillingdoncarers.org.uk

Hillingdon Careline and Telecare – for a small monthly charge (free or subsidised in certain cases), those living on their own are offered a home safety and personal security system which enables them to call for help in an emergency. Using a telephone line and a telephone plug socket, there is a 24-hour link to the Hillingdon Careline centre every day of the year. Careline supplies a pendant which, when pressed, connects the wearer to the Careline Control Centre. Contact Hillingdon Careline on 01895 250380.

Telecare can supply sensors which detect a fall, temperature extremes, bed or chair occupancy, or property exit. Contact Telecare on 01895 277719.

…supporting people affected by cancer…

The Lynda Jackson Macmillan Centre (LJMC) is situated in the grounds of Mount Vernon Hospital and is part of the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre. Opened in 1993, the LJMC was the first centre of its kind to provide a holistic service that supports cancer patients and their families, helping them cope with all aspects of the disease from diagnosis, through treatment and beyond. Services include a drop-in centre and telephone helpline, counselling service, benefits advice and complementary therapies.

The LJMC is partially funded by the NHS and relies heavily on fundraising and voluntary donations in order to meet the 35,000 or so requests that are received each year. There is no charge for the LJMC’s services.

The LJMC welcomes enquiries from potential volunteers. We respond to more than 35,000 requests for help each year.

We also welcome enquiries from potential volunteers to work in all departments of the LJMC including the Drop-in centre, information desk, administration and fundraising. More information about the LJMC’s services can be found on www.ljmc.org or please call the Helpline if you would like to speak to anyone about any aspect of the LJMC’s work.

Telephone helpline: 020 3826 2555
Hours of opening: Monday – Friday (9.30am – 1.00 pm & 2.00-4.30pm)

• Contact Angela Flux (Manager), Laura Waller or Yvonne Long (Assistant Managers) at the office on 01923 842494: Northwood Methodist Church, Oaklands Gate, Northwood, HA6 3AA
• email: WestLondon@mha.org.uk
• Download the history of the scheme by clicking here.

• We are still taking referrals and supporting older people
• Volunteers are offering telephone and shopping support
• We have maintained Covid secure contact with many of our members including delivering meals kindly donated by COOK with contributions from Eastbury Church
• Digital/virtual activities are available – zoom seated exercise classes run 3 times a week
• We are maintaining postal contact and have set up a pen-pal initiative with Northwood College students
• We will be restarting face to face activities as soon as it is safe to do so

• visit https://www.harlingtonhospice.org/
• call our fundraising office on  020 8106 9222
• email us at  fundraising@harlingtonhospice.org

Michael Sobell House supports those in our community living with serious or terminal illness to live each day in their own way, to the fullest. It is one of Harlington Hospice’s six pillars of care and is based at Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood.

It is the individual that matters to us and we take great care to get to know everyone who comes to us. We discover what is important to them in their world. We encourage them to set their own goals for how to live well, from early in their illness until their last days. And we support those closest to them through the whole experience, and into bereavement.

As a charity only part-funded by the NHS, it is only with the kindness of our supporters that we can be alongside our vibrant Hillingdon community at their time of need. This generosity means that every person can be supported to shape their own care. There are so many ways you can support local people facing serious illness, including donating, organising a fundraising event, or volunteering.

You can learn more about our services, merger with Harlington Hospice, and fundraising and volunteering opportunities on our website https://www.harlingtonhospice.org/

The Mount Vernon Cancer Centre Charitable Fund is here to support the excellent work carried out by the staff and to make the difference to every patient. Through appeals and a variety of projects, the charity provides what is over and above NHS funding to improve treatments and enhance patient experience.

The charity works closely with clinical colleagues across the cancer centre to identify the greatest need for projects and appeals to improve patient care, which includes funding:

·         State-of-the-art equipment and technology to enhance treatment

·         Investment in cancer research projects to drive innovation

·         Outpatient refurbishments and art projects and the creation of tranquil outdoor spaces to improve patient and staff health and wellbeing

·         The Lynda Jackson Macmillan Centre – a service that supports patients and their families, and helps them cope with all aspects of cancer; from diagnosis, treatment and living beyond cancer.

·         Outpatient refurbishments and art projects and the creation of tranquil outdoor spaces to improve patient and staff health and wellbeing

·         Investment in cancer research projects to drive innovation

·         Staff education and training to help our staff care for our patients

Ways to donate

Online: enhhcharity.org.uk/mvcc

By Text:

To donate £5 text MVCANCERCARE 5
To donate £10 text MVCANCERCARE 10
To donate £20 text MVCANCERCARE 20

Tel 0203 826 2517

Mount Vernon Cancer Centre Charitable Fund is part of East & North Hertfordshire Hospitals’ Charity.

Registered Charity No: 1053338

Mount Vernon Cancer Centre is a well renowned, highly specialised cancer centre based in Northwood in Middlesex and thrives on the contribution of our volunteers who support patients and visitors at the Lynda Jackson Macmillan Centre as well as within the specialist cancer centre itself.  Volunteers support all areas of our work in a variety of roles morning and afternoon during week days at the moment.  Most roles are helping to support staff behind the scenes for essential services and we are developing patient contact roles where and when needed.

Working at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre will suit someone who: is reliable and trustworthy; has good communication skills and wants to be part of our team; wishes to give at least 4 hours a week of their time for a minimum of 6 months and has not experienced cancer (whether themselves or close family or friend) in the past 2 years.

In return we will give you a comprehensive induction program to get you familiar with the cancer centre and its various departments. We will also give you the training to be a response volunteer and introduce you to mentors. You will also have a team of people supporting you and your development in the role.

Interested? The next step……

Please contact us via email providing a brief bio along with your telephone contact and address telling us why you are seeking to volunteer at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre.

Contact the Volunteer Coordinators at Support and Information Services:

volunteeringmvcc.enh-tr@nhs.net

Tel: 0203 826 2514

The Comforts Fund has been working for over 80 years on the Mount Vernon Hospital site as a registered charity run by volunteers to raise funds to improve patient comfort.

The Fund runs a coffee shop in the radiotherapy unit, as well as a look-in charity shop, bookshop, general goods shop and ward trolley (see below). Support is needed to continue fund-raising efforts on behalf of patients and staff. Please do visit the shops if you are at the hospital. If you have any books, clothes or bric-a-brac that you would like to donate, they will be gratefully received. The general shop is open Monday to Friday, 10 am to 3.30 pm, and the bookshop and charity shop from Monday to Friday, 11 am to 3 pm.

Could you steer a trolley? The Fund operates a trolley service selling goods to in-patients on weekday mornings for approximately an hour and a half. It’s amazing how much can be loaded on the trolley; from newspapers to cosmetics and confectionery – all the small items which make a stay in hospital more comfortable. More volunteers are needed to take the trolley round the wards. If you could spare a little time – even if it’s only, say, once a fortnight or just occasionally – please call 01923 844629

Hillingdon Hospital Trust is looking for Volunteers, particularly at the new Mount Vernon Treatment Centre – although Hillingdon Hospital itself always welcomes offers of voluntary help. Support will be appreciated in many areas, such as Reception, Wards, Clerical, Clinics, Fund-raising, etc.

Please contact

Sonniah Aldridge, Voluntary Services Manager,
Voluntary Services Department,
Hillingdon Hospital, Pield Heath Road,
Hillingdon, Middx, UB8 3NN

Telephone: 01895 279856

email: Sonniah.Aldridge@thh.nhs.uk

Northwood Lions is a voluntary service organisation providing aid or funds for those who need help, primarily in the local community. We meet every first and third Wednesday at 8pm, call Robert on 07860 324395 for venue details.

• visit www.northwoodlions.org.uk

• contact David Goldman (Chairman) 01923 286210 or send an email
• meetings 2/4 Tuesday, 7:30 for 8:00pm
• contact Chairman for venue

Paul Strickland Scanner Centre is based at Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood. We’re an independent medical charity working to improve the lives of people affected by cancer and other serious conditions. We do this through medical research and by providing the best possible patient care using high quality MRI, CT and PET-CT scanners

With help from our supporters, we were able to perform almost 17,000 scans last year, giving patients and their families hope for the future.

We receive no government funding and rely on legacies and donations from individuals, groups and societies, companies and charitable trusts to obtain new scanners costing upwards of £1m each.

Our world renowned radiologists are cancer imaging experts, interpreting patients’ scan images so that referring doctors can make life changing treatment decisions.  Supported by a dedicated team of radiographers, clinical and administration staff, fundraisers and volunteers, they all help us to offer patients the most comprehensive scanning service on one site in the UK.

We need your help to continue saving lives – to find out more about the work we do

Visit www.stricklandscanner.org.uk .
Contact our fundraising team on 01923 886315

Email: appeals@stricklandscanner.org.uk to find out more, or to fundraise for us.

Registered charity no. 298867

Radio Mount Vernon has been broadcasting to patients for over 50 years. Technology has made things even more exciting in recent years, as we now have a computer to broadcast our choice of music whenever there is no live broadcast. We broadcast Sky news every hour, too.
Currently (2022), we have nine live shows and a daily lunchtime drama. Our live shows feature certain decades or musical genres, or have a quiz element, or the patients’ requests are played. We can be heard online at radiomountvernon.org.uk, or through the hospital technology for inpatients.

We have put up a new aerial onsite that enables us to be heard in all parts the hospital site, and within about a mile from the hospital.

We have, of course, been restricted by Covid, but now as things slowly return to a new normal, we are ready to recruit new members to our team, and new sponsors to help us keep up the good work!

Research makes it clear that listening to music, especially music chosen by the patient, helps to relax the body and mind.

Please do check the website for more information, or contact pr@radiomountvernon.org.uk

• President:  Gillian Pearce
• website: www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/homepage.php?ClubID=534

• contact by sending an email
• for more information see www.ruislipwoodstrust.org.uk