THE Oxford Hospitals Charity has received £2,000 funding from local housebuilder, CALA Homes, towards upgrading children’s monitors in hospitals across the county.

The charity was initially founded off the back of the need to organise and distribute funding more effectively across Oxfordshire hospital wards, including the John Radcliffe Hospital, the Churchill Hospital and Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

The charity's community fundraising manager, Damon Boughen, said: "The new cutting-edge monitors we are purchasing give staff accurate and vital information about each child.

"They are also mobile, so can travel with children if they are moving wards.

This is a significant upgrade on the previous system, where children would have to be disconnected and reconnected to multiple machines each time they were moved."

The funding was allocated through CALA Homes Community Bursary initiative.

Sales and marketing director at CALA Homes Chiltern, Helen Colman, said: “Choosing the successful applicants of this year’s Community Bursary scheme was an incredibly tough decision, and we had many applications displaying worthwhile causes. The work that Oxford Hospitals Charity is doing really stood out to us, and will be incredibly beneficial to both the children and staff on paediatric wards.

“Community is at the very heart of our ethos at CALA Homes, and we are so pleased to have found a local charity which encompasses this so well.”