The circus came to visit Radio Lollipop in Bristol on Saturday 29th September to help the team celebrate 34 years at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children!
Hobble the Dancing Bear and Ringmaster DJ Splinter put on the greatest show with the Silly Saturday Team supervising circus themed arts and crafts for all the children and their families who came to celebrate our birthday with us!
We all had a lollipoptastic time!
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Radio Lollipop Newcastle had a welcome visit to our studio from our wonderful supporters Jen and Katherine on Tuesday night. Jen presented our chairperson Lydia with £500 that they had raised from a workplace raffle. They were over the moon that we hope to use some of the money to provide a new guitar as an addition to our much loved and used musical instruments.
Radio Lollipop have had the privilege of broadcasting to and providing bedside entertainment for the patients and their families at Evelina London Children’s Hospital for 10 years! To mark this anniversary in 2018 & celebrate the joy that our volunteers bring to the children on the wards, Radio Lollipop are throwing an end of Summer indoor festival for the children, volunteers, staff, parents and siblings across the hospital on Saturday 29th September.
Following on from the past two years of incredible ‘Lollipop Live!’ events at Great Ormond Street Hospital, we are thrilled to be hosting this for the first time at Evelina London!!
Confirmed to perform on the day are experienced music-in-healthcare practitioners Zoe Konez & Marina Tiffeny who specialise in bringing live interactive music for wellbeing into hospitals, through familiar song and creative improvisation. Zoe & Marina work daily in healthcare settings with organisations including Wishing Well Music, who use music as a positive creative outlet.
London based Blues/Folk duo Ferris & Sylvester, whose EP ‘Made In Streatham’ shot straight to the top of the iTunes Singer Songwriter charts earlier this year have also agreed to join in this year’s fun, along with 19-year-old Casey Lowry who has already been featured on Radio 1 & regularly sells out some of the UK’s best known gig venues!
Back due to high demand, for a third-year running is the Good Gracious Music Ukulele Workshop who provide a group participation hands-on ukulele lesson to grasp the basics of these tiny but fun musical instruments.
To headline this incredible day of fun, we’re extremely lucky to be able to welcome a selection of the greatest theatrical stars in this country, who have kindly leant their time off from performing on London’s West End stages, to lead us through a medley of songs including tracks from Frozen, Moana, Aladdin, Hairspray & The Little Mermaid!
We’ll be broadcasting the whole show LIVE from within the sensational architecture of Evelina London’s open-plan Atrium throughout the hospital, and will also be hosting a range of activities, games and competitions throughout the day to demonstrate the invaluable way our volunteers use play to aid a child’s recovery!
Yet again Radio Lollipop Newcastle had great support from volunteers and friends in the Great North Run 2018 and even the Red Arrows joined in the celebrations. A huge thank you to Alice, Amy, Andrew, Chris, Erin, James, Matt, Matthew, Morgan and Rob for running the 13.1 miles in the largest half marathon in the world. We can’t wait to see how much money has been raised!!!!!
