Starlight's aim is to brighten the lives of seriously and terminally ill children in order to take their minds off the pain, fear and isolation of their illness. We would like to raise enough money towards a Starlight Fun Centre.
A Starlight Fun Centre is a specially designed mobile entertainment unit incorporating a TV monitor, a combi video/DVD player and a Nintendo GameCube™ – or as Joanna Greensmith, mother of 9 year old Joshua who suffers from a congenital heart disease, puts it: “the most effective post operative relief available, bringing more smiles and drying more eyes than any medicine on offer”.
Starlight Fun Centres can be used in many different ways. Children on the ward can all sit together and watch a film, breaking the ‘first day at school’ atmosphere and encouraging the children to make friends. Alternatively, the Starlight Fun Centre can be wheeled right up to an ill child’s bed in intensive care, providing entertainment whilst isolated from others.
Starlight Fun Centres are also used as a crucial part of a child's treatment. They can be used to help calm children down prior to an important operation and to distract them as they fall asleep after their pre-med injections. Children who have access to a Starlight Fun Centre whilst undergoing treatment are often so absorbed playing their Nintendo game that they are unaware of the treatment being administered to them.
Starlight aims to put a Starlight Fun Centre, which costs £3,000 to sponsor, on every children’s wards and in every hospice across the UK. So far over 919 Starlight Fun Centres have been distributed from Aberdeen to Abergevenny, Glasgow to Guernsey, Hull to Haverford West, Birmingham to Belfast, providing entertainment for children in hospitals and hospices across the United Kingdom.
Starlight is hugely grateful to Nintendo UK for its support of the Starlight Fun Centre programme since it started. Nintendo, not only provide GameCubes™ and games for every Starlight Fun Centre, but it also provides support all year round looking after and servicing the Starlight Fun Centres in hospitals and hospices throughout the UK. For more information about Nintendo, please click here.
Requesting a Starlight Fun Centre. If you would like to apply for a Starlight Fun Centre for the children at your hospital or hospice, please send a written request (name, contact details, position, hospital/surgery/hospice name) to Starlight Children's Foundation, Macmillan House, Paddington Station, London W2 1HD or email hospitals@starlight.org.uk.
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A Starlight Fun Centre is a specially designed mobile entertainment unit incorporating a TV monitor, a combi video/DVD player and a Nintendo GameCube™ – or as Joanna Greensmith, mother of 9 year old Joshua who suffers from a congenital heart disease, puts it: “the most effective post operative relief available, bringing more smiles and drying more eyes than any medicine on offer”.
Starlight Fun Centres can be used in many different ways. Children on the ward can all sit together and watch a film, breaking the ‘first day at school’ atmosphere and encouraging the children to make friends. Alternatively, the Starlight Fun Centre can be wheeled right up to an ill child’s bed in intensive care, providing entertainment whilst isolated from others.
Starlight Fun Centres are also used as a crucial part of a child's treatment. They can be used to help calm children down prior to an important operation and to distract them as they fall asleep after their pre-med injections. Children who have access to a Starlight Fun Centre whilst undergoing treatment are often so absorbed playing their Nintendo game that they are unaware of the treatment being administered to them.
Starlight aims to put a Starlight Fun Centre, which costs £3,000 to sponsor, on every children’s wards and in every hospice across the UK. So far over 919 Starlight Fun Centres have been distributed from Aberdeen to Abergevenny, Glasgow to Guernsey, Hull to Haverford West, Birmingham to Belfast, providing entertainment for children in hospitals and hospices across the United Kingdom.
A Starlight Fun Centre is a specially designed mobile entertainment unit incorporating a TV, Video/DVD player and a Nintendo Wii. They are used by children on the ward who can all sit together and watch a film or they can be wheeled right up to an ill child’s bed in intensive care, providing entertainment whilst isolated from others. They are also used as a crucial part of a child's treatment. They can be used to help calm children down prior to an important operation and to distract them as they fall asleep after their pre-med injections. Children who have access to a Starlight Fun Centre whilst undergoing treatment are often so absorbed playing their Nintendo game that they are unaware of the treatment being administered to them.
Starlight aims to put a Starlight Fun Centre, which costs £3,000 to sponsor, on every children’s wards and in every hospice across the UK. So far over 919 Starlight Fun Centres have been distributed from Aberdeen to Abergevenny, Glasgow to Guernsey, Hull to Haverford West, Birmingham to Belfast, providing entertainment for children in hospitals and hospices across the United Kingdom.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for reading this page, your support and for any donation you make.
James Engineering will be raising money for a Starlight Fun Centre based in the East Midlands.