This year the Radio Lollipop Edinburgh fundraising ball has a ‘Hawaiian’ theme! Come along and join us for what is set to be a fantastic night on Friday 2nd October at the Roxburghe Hotel, Charlotte Square.
We just have a few tables left for the event which will be hosted by the amazing Scott Wilson once again. To book your tickets please contact graham.barr@radiolollipop.org.
The team at Davidson, a Brisbane Recruitment Agency, volunteered their time again recently to help with the important process of finding new Radio Lollipop playmakers for the Lady Cilento and Logan Hospitals.
The ongoing support from Davidson with the interviewing process is important in ensuring Radio Lollipop finds the best playmakers who are dedicated to making children smile with radio shows and craft time.
A special thanks to the team from Davidson for helping the Radio Lollipop Queensland team find 24 new playmakers after two weekends of interviewing.
We’re looking forward to our new playmakers helping us entertain every child in hospital.
The Queen has been pleased, on the occasion of the celebration of Her Majesty’s Birthday, to make the following appointment to The Order of New Zealand:
NEVILLE-WHITE, MRS DEIRDRE GAY a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit: For services to children’s health.
Mrs Deirdre Neville-White led a small steering group from 1983 to 1991 to establish the Radio Lollipop charity in New Zealand, a play programme that operates in children’s hospitals.
Mrs Neville-White was the founding Chair of the Board from 1992 to 2002 and continues to serve as a Director of Radio Lollipop New Zealand. The service began in Starship Children’s Hospital in 1992, and then in Counties Manukau in 1996, with the organisation growing from an inaugural eight volunteers to more than 240 volunteers in five hospitals around New Zealand. Later years saw the establishment of stations in Whangarei Base Hospital and Waitakere. Most recently in 2013 a service was opened at the Christchurch Hospital. She was one of the founding Directors of the International Board, and became Chair of that Board in 2008. She remains the New Zealand representative to the Board. As Chair she began the process of establishing a new station in South Africa. New Zealand is the first branch of the charity internationally to commission research to identify the service’s benefits to children, families and hospitals. Mrs Neville-White was a Trustee of the Auckland Zoological Trust Board, and was a volunteer for the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Red Cross for three years.
Congratulations Deirdre from everyone at Radio Lollipop New Zealand. Your hard work and vision has been unwavering throughout the years and is now officially recognised as it rightfully should.
