About Young Hearts

Young Hearts is run by volunteers and was set up by local parents of heart children to offer a listening ear by being at the end of a phone and to make a difference in the life of a heart child and their family. We provide advice, support and information, as well as fundraising to purchase equipment for the ward or cardiac team and arrange social events for the children and their families.

Heart disease affects 1:100 children and is the most common abnormality. Some children may never need surgery; some one operation and others may need several.

Young Hearts supports The John Radcliffe Children’s Hospital, Bellhouse Ward, which is the Regional Centre for Paediatric Cardiology.  The Ward accepts children from Berks, Bucks, Oxon, Wilts, Glos and Northants.

Key people:

Chairman:  Frances Scaddan
Treasurer:  Nikki Bound
Secretary:   Dulcie Dunbar

Committee Members:  Kim Homewood, Tara Hart, Yvonne Thomas, Martin & Dawn Woodcock, Lorraine Perrin and Cardiac Nurses Kathy Lurcook, Caroline Hinton and Cathy Pearl.

Honorary Member: Dr. Nick Archer, Consultant Cardiologist.

Your help really makes all the difference to Young Hearts.
Registered Charity 1107986

P O Box 459

2, Fellows Close

Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 2XQ

TEL: 01235 526 414

EMAIL: support@younghearts.co.uk