Colchester Hospitals Charity is one of many NHS charities across the UK, it works to provide many extras that cannot be supplied by the NHS alone, making a real and positive difference to patient care in North East Essex. Colchester Hospitals Charity’s aim is to help Colchester Hospital provide you, your friends, your family and neighbours with the highest quality, safe, and compassionate care – today and into the future.
We do this by:
It’s these extras – some small, some large – above and beyond the scope of the NHS budget, that really make a difference.
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Colchester Hospitals Charity is an umbrella for charitable funds covering over 100 wards, departments and special appeals and we will always ensure that your gifts are earmarked for the part of the hospital as specified by you. Please see our donate page for a list of appeals, wards and departments to support.
Registered charity number 1051504
Caroline Bates, Head of Charity and Fundraising
Julie Arthur, Fundraising Officer – Community & Events
Penny Norris, Fundraising Officer – Trusts & Major Donors
CoHoC is an NHS Charity with a corporate trustee. The Charitable Funds Committee acts on behalf of the Trust in satisfying the duties and responsibilities of the Corporate Trustee (The Board of Directors) in managing the charitable and other funds held on trust. The Committee has no executive powers, other than those specified in these terms of reference or otherwise by the Corporate Trustee. The committee meets four times a year in February, May, August and November
Chairman: Susan Aylen-Peacock
Director of Finance: Dawn Scrafield
Clinical Representative: Donna Booton
Consultant: Gerald Rix
Company Secretary: Ann Alderton
Public Governor: Andrew May
The Trust prides itself on giving 21st-century healthcare for a 21st-century population. It provides services to the 370,000 people of north east Essex and cancer services to a further 300,000 people in mid-Essex. The Trust’s services are available at Colchester General Hospital and Essex County Hospital as well as clinics at the community hospitals in Clacton, Harwich and Halstead. Last year our hospitals dealt with:
The Trust is one of the largest employers in North East Essex, employing approximately 4,200 people. Colchester General Hospital has 562 inpatient beds (general and anaesthetic), 44 maternity beds (including at Clacton and Harwich hospitals) and 13 critical care beds. (This doesn’t include cots or A&E.)
To find out more about Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust Charitable Funds (known as Colchester Hospitals Charity or CoHoC ) please click here.
To read our Annual report and accounts please click here
CoHoC helps Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust (the Trust) do more for the patients cared for by the Trust’s staff. There’s often a new piece of equipment, more up-to-date technologies, and newer fixtures and fittings that will improve the patients’ environment. It’s these extras – some small, some large -which are above and beyond the scope of the NHS budget, that really make a difference to patients, and the care that our staff can deliver.
£5 a month could buy non-slip slippers for elderly patients
£15 a month could buy tea and coffee for patients receiving chemotherapy
£50 could help run a support group for patients with a serious illness
£100 could buy a special cushion to help stroke patients
£200 would help to pay for an extra ventilator cot for the Special Care Baby Unit
Let us know which area that you would like to donate to and we will make sure that your donation goes to support that cause.