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8 April 2007  

More than 100 Radio Lollipop Volunteers are now working at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children – bringing their special brand of Care, Comfort, Play and Entertainment to the young patients – both on the wards and in the tube carriage studio.

The first Radio Lollipop Volunteers were trained and on the wards in August 2005 – providing a play service ahead of the studio being operational in April 2006. The official launch last June saw more than 50 trained Volunteers – and now that number has doubled with fourteen or more of the GOSH wards seeing Radio Lollipop bringing fun games and giggles.

Sunday March 11 saw the first Radio Lollipop teams providing weekend help on the wards and live music and competitions from the studio. The aim is to recruit a further 100 Volunteers so that much appreciated play activities can be across all 21 GOSH wards several nights a week and at weekends too.

Commenting on the 100 Volunteer mark Radio Lollipop Chairman and Life President Hedley Finn MBE said:

“Radio Lollipop now has more Volunteers at Great Ormond Street than at any one of the other 20 Stations in the UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand. I take my hat off to our Honorary Chairman Andrew Kendall and his very dedicated team.

Radio Lollipop Management Teams are all Volunteers too. We have no paid staff and everyone has to hold down their own day job while helping us out in the evenings. As well as two hours a week actually with the children on the wards, the Volunteer also handle all the recruitment and training processes. Obviously, the hospitals help too and we are honoured to be working with the wonderful team at Great Ormond Street – who give us excellent support and facilities.”