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We have decided to take on a fitness challenge for the entire month of September! Member's of staff will each walk/run/skip 25km throughout September to raise vital funds for Friends of PICU. 

Friends of PICU is a charity which helps Southampton Paediatric Intensive Care Unit by buying new equipment and supporting the families who have a poorly child residing on the unit. 

Every year, between 900 - 1000 children are admitted from across the South East of England (including Jersey and the Channel Islands) to Southampton PICU, some with life changing injuries/conditions and some who then reside on the unit for a prolonged period of time.  Friends of PICU help support these families by providing them with accommodation which is across the corridor from the PICU, enabling families to be at their child's beside within minutes at whatever time of the day or night. Currently, Friends of PICU are raising money to modernise the accommodation as the rooms are now old and in need of renewal and upgrading.

Friends of PICU also help fund life-saving equipment. Currently, they have raised 25% of their target to fund an ECMO console for the unit. This piece of equipment is a life-support machine for children with poorly hearts or lungs. Friends of PICU also raised money to buy the unit a new retrieval ambulance last year. The retrieval ambulance collects incredibly poorly children from across the South East of England to be treated at Southampton PICU so they can receive life-saving treatment that they wouldn't receive at their local hospital.  

Some member's of staff have resided on the unit with their poorly children and so this is a cause close to our heart. We really hope our fitness challenge can raise funds for this amazing charity.

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