News
Stay updated with the latest news, events, and inspiring stories from our community. Here, we celebrate the incredible work being done to support children with heart conditions and their families. Join us as we share achievements, highlight our dedicated volunteers, and spread awareness about the vital mission of the Children’s Heart Association. Together, we can make a difference!
Night at the Museum
Thank you so much to the staff of Manchester Museum. They put together an amazing Night at the Museum ... the first time they have done this type of event for families. We went on a hunt for fossil evidence, we checked out how fast dinosaurs were...
Well Done Helaina
A big thank you to Helaina for raising £176 for CHA at our Ball of Hearts. She has spent a year making bracelets to sell. They were beautifully colourful.
CHA charity fundraising
Charity fundraising has been in the news recently. We would like to reassure you that we have never sold your information to anyone. Our membership list is only used to send out information to you about our trips and events. CHA are in the wonderful position that we...
Info day thanks
A huge thank you to everyone who worked together to help create our information day on Saturday 19th. Thanks to our wonderful speakers, or those who led workshops; Dr Andreas Hoschtitzky, Claire Stableford, Dr Caroline Jones, Linda Griffiths, Clair Noctor, Kim Laurie,...
Travel Insurance for Pre-Existing Conditions
We’ve put together a list of holiday insurance companies who deal with pre existing condition. See our Travel Insurance page.
UK Cardiac Centre Contacts
We've added a page listing contact information for the UK cardiac centres, also linked from the Information menu above.
Information Day – Sep ’15
Not Just for Children
CHA’s Got Talent – Sep ’15
Ball of Hearts – Nov ’15
Information Day 2015
Confirmed speakers to include antenatal diagnosis and care, holiday worries, how to talk to your children about the heart, vaccines for heart kids, how to use an automatic defibrillator, and advances in surgery. There are special sessions for dads, new parents, older...
Thank you Smart Storage
Smart Storage have taken us on as their charity of the year and have already raised £380 for us with a sponsored Santa Dash. We have a storage facility with the Bootle branch which is usually piled high with your donations ready for our next charity shop. Each time...
Jump Nation Bounce-a-thon
Here are our exhausted bouncers after the hour of trampolining at Jump Nation. We had a fabulous time. Robyn - in the centre - has raised over £1000 and others have raised around £500. We'll have a grand total when all the sponsor money has been paid in. A huge...
Welcome to our Patrons
We are delighted to introduce you to our new patrons – Dr Denise Kitchiner and Dr Raman Patel. These doctors have now retired, but will be familiar to so many of our families – and many of our children owe their lives to their interventions. We are honoured to have...
Research into Parents’ Experiences of Administering Painful and/or Invasive Procedures
A team from the Social Policy Research Unit at the University of York, funded by WellChild, are conducting research into the administration of painful and/or invasive procedures by parents of children with long-term health conditions. This research is running from...
Sponsored Bounce
We are really looking forward to the end of the month when we are having a sponsored bounce. A local paper has been to see one of our older children who has already raised over £300 and told her story of this trip helping her to feel included rather than left out....
WiFi for Manchester Heart Centre
CHA have provided portable WiFi for our young people who are staying in the Heart Centre at Manchester Royal Infirmary. It is vital for them to be able to keep in touch with their friends (and some of them even use it to send homework to school we've been told)....
Manchester Christmas 2014 and Disney’s #ShareTheMagic campaign
We had a lovely time at our annual Pizza with Santa's Elves lunch at the Hilton Manchester Airport. The staff there are fabulous and the food was even better than last year. We were very grateful to In Kind Direct and Disney's Share the Magic Campaign for donating...
Thank you from Manchester Children’s Hospital
We've received a thank you from the play team at Ward 85 Manchester Children's Hospital. "Thank you so much for the £100. With this I have been able to buy cheaper up to date games. Thanks Jo play specialist x" It's the little things that we do which can make...
Visit to see Concorde
On Sat 13th Sept we went to see Concorde at Runway Visitors park at Manchester Airport. It was a lovely warm afternoon and we met at 12.30 ready for our 12.50 tour. The size of Concorde was amazing to see. We had the services of a guide to take us on board and tell us...