Radio Lollipop (Manchester)

Website: http://radiolollipop.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RadioLollipopUKManchester
manchester@radiolollipop.org
Where do they work?: City-Wide
Registered charity number: 280817
Description: Radio Lollipop believes in the healing power of play – providing smiles and laughter to children at a time when they need it most. Though some patients are short-stay, many have a recurring need for care and return repeatedly to hospital. Some who are terminally ill spend much of their short lives in hospital.

Radio Lollipop gives young patients a voice and a choice during their stay. While they can´t say “no” to taking their medicine or receiving treatment, they can request their favourite songs, win prizes and hear their own voices on the radio. Those activities give youngsters a haven of normality in the hospital day which in other respects is strange, different and often scary.
Services delivered: We provide care, comfort, play and entertainment through the medium of hospital radio, craft making and play
Services are available: Face to face
Services are delivered on: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Monday opening time: Radio station available for 24 hours
Tuesday opening time: Radio station available for 24 hours
Wednesday opening time: Radio station available for 24 hours
Thursday opening time: Radio station available for 24 hours
Friday opening time: Radio station available for 24 hours
Languages available: English
Winter services are available: Face to face, Online/digitally
Cash donations: Donation tins are available in local shops or at the hospital and donations can be made via our website.

Volunteering Opportunities

Opportunity title Summary
Radio Lollipop Volunteer We are a charity based in Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. Our volunteers provide care, comfort and entertainment for sick children in the hospital. Our volunteer teams make a positive difference in the lives of children.
Enthusiastic volunteers needed! We have a team of amazing Volunteers who run the radio station, involve children in play activities and use the sounds of radio to stimulate the children´s imaginations. If you are over 18 years of age and would enjoy spending two hours a week with kids you can join our volunteer team.
Radio Lollipop Volunteer Would you like the opportunity to deliver care, comfort, play and entertainment to children in hospital? At Manchester, we have trollies full of serious fun delivered to children on the wards by our enthusiastic volunteers.