Caroline Sinclair, Ronald McDonald House

At Ronald McDonald House Charities UK, we provide free ‘home away from home’ accommodation for families with a child in hospital.

When a child goes into hospital with a serious condition, or a baby is born very early, they are not always treated close to home but can be transferred many miles away to get the often lifesaving care they need, in a major specialist hospital.

All a parent wants is to be by their child’s side and here at Ronald McDonald House Charities UK, we ensure the family have a safe and comfortable home within a few minutes’ walk of the hospital ward. We opened our 62-bedroom House at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital in April 2020 and we are now able to accommodate around 1,000 families per year from Oxfordshire, it’s surrounding counties and at times from all over the UK for specialist surgery – they can stay for free, for as long as they need to.

In 2022, we are bringing a new event to the calendar – an Ice Walk – although we have decided to postpone the ice walks until later in the year and are working on new dates. We will update the website with new details as soon as they are confirmed. Are you brave enough to walk on broken glass?

rmhc.org.uk/event/ice-walk-2022

rmhc.org.uk