Weekly sport and play for children too ill for school, delivered at Evelina and other hospital schools.
Some of our most important sessions happen in hospital. At Evelina Children’s Hospital School and other hospital schools, children too ill for mainstream school still get to play with CKC every week.
Our specialist coaches, including Denise O’Neill and Ray Tudor, bring games to bedsides and wards — adapting every activity to what each child can do, however limited that may be on any given day.
Play matters when you are unwell. It restores a little normality, a little joy and a little control to children whose days are ruled by treatment.
Families are included too. While their child plays, parents get a rare moment of lightness — a glimpse of their child laughing and thriving.
Children like Cruz, who played with us from the age of two while on dialysis and went on to full-time school after a kidney transplant, are the beating heart of this programme.
For an hour on a ward, a cricket ball makes a child forget they are unwell at all.
— CKC hospital programme lead