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Christchurch Hospital to Receive FFA Cheque

Christchurch Hospital will receive a cheque from the Fresh Future Appeal on Friday 6 November as its share of the 2009 appeal funds.


The cheque will be presented by Progressive Enterprises General Manager Fresh Foods, Brett Ashley and Progressive’s Area Champion for the appeal, Hamish Robinson, to Canterbury District Health Board’s General Manager Corporate Services Murray Dickson.


Media are invited to attend.


Service Manager, Children’s Health, Anne Morgan says some of the money received will be used to pay for the production of a series of informational DVDs for children and their families about hospital procedures and coming to hospital. The rest will be spent on equipment, including items to help position children who have conditions such as traumatic brain injury and other neurological conditions and cannot sit up. Purchases of integrated wall mounted auroscopes/otoscopes for ear examination and a sphygmomanometer for taking blood pressure will also be made.


The 2009 Fresh Future Appeal was launched in August when Progressive Enterprises’ staff handed out gift bags to children in Christchurch Hospital’s childrens’ wards.

Over the last two years CDHB has received $366,000 for children’s services from the fundraising campaign. That was a share of approximately $2 million that New Zealanders, including staff, customers and suppliers of Progressive Enterprises, raised in the appeal’s first two years.


The funds went to dedicated children’s wards at 10 New Zealand hospitals including Christchurch Hospital, Dunedin, Waikato and Wellington Hospitals as well as Kidz First Children’s Hospital, Auckland.


To make a donation during the appeal, customers placed money in collection boxes or bought raffle tickets in stores and literally hundreds of local fundraising events were held.


The Appeal runs across Countdown, Woolworths, Foodtown, SuperValue, Fresh Choice, Dick Smith stores and support offices nationwide


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