Today is Radio Lollipop Western Australia’s 33rd birthday and our Super Saturday team is ready to celebrate. If you have a Radio Lollipop memory, tell us below!!
33 years ago today, Radio Lollipop Western Australia opened their studio at Princess Margaret Hospital, and now here we are in 2018 still providing care, comfort, play and entertainment to children and their families in 8 hospitals around WA. We can’t wait to see what the next 33 years will bring!
More than 100 people, with an appetite for helping children in hospital, joined Radio Lollipop for its inaugural Fundraising Lunch in Brisbane.
They came equipped with a sense of fun while still focused on the serious business of making life better for some of our youngest patients.
The Riverlife Function Centre proved the perfect setting for a relaxed get-together of charity minded people who were only too willing to dig deep for a good cause.
Just over $30,000 was raised on the day through auctions, raffles, ticket sales and donations to help keep Radio Lollipop on air and by the beds of children faced with the trauma of treatment and separation from family and friends.
Television Presenter Pat Welsh kept the crowd motived in his role of MC and Senior Seven Network Reporter Chris Reason entertained everyone with his behind the scenes stories of some of the world’s most matched news events.
A dedicated group of volunteers went to great lengths to ensure the fundraiser would convey to guests the sense of fun and excitement that Radio Lollipop embodies.
And the message was received loud and clear with the level of laughter matching the amount of generosity shown by everyone involved.
Flashback Friday to September’s “Lollipop Live!” at Evelina Children’s Hospital, London, when we handed over control of the camera to a little helper!
Watch to the end to see the cheeky face behind the lense, and be prepared to get a tad dizzy after watching #KidCam!
Filmed at Evelina London, part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. No volunteers were harmed in the making of this video…
Radio Lollipop Newcastle Chairperson Lydia had the pleasure of being invited to speak to staff and students at Northumbria University today. The mixture of over 40 students were from the 2nd year journalism course and the1st year mass communications course and they were extremely interested in what Radio Lollipop do within the Great North Childrens’ Hospital. Lydia also got to visit the University radio studios where she was interviewed by Dr Jonny Walker, promgramme leader for the mass communications course. We hope that this will be the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship with the Unviersity in the future.
