Radio Lollipop
Encyclopedia
Radio Lollipop is a charitable organization
for entertaining children in hospital
. It organizes volunteers to spend time with children on a one to one basis, taking its name from the radio stations it runs in hospitals playing children's programming - part presented by children themselves.
in Surrey, England, at first primarily as a cable wired radio station for the 460 children in the hospital. The station made its first broadcast on 5 May 1979 the very first Radio Lollipop went on-air.
Following the success of this first station in 1980 the International Year of the Child
Committee provided funding to develop Radio Lollipops in other British
hospitals.
Over time emphasis shifted from the radio station to volunteers spending time on wards entertaining children in person, by playing games, doing arts and crafts and reading stories. However the "radio", with children's programming and often DJing, remains a central part of the charity. Programming consists of DJ banter with children, interspersed with request songs, and comedy and musical contributions from member hospitals, circulated by CD. In most hospitals the programme is wired to speakers in wards, rather than actually broadcast, however a central studio, with DJs, open to children provides a focal point and base). There is a project underway to carry feed from other hospitals in different time zones throughout the day, via the internet. Radio Lollipop is run entirely by unpaid volunteers, (usually a mix of city business people, retirees and medical students), and usually operates in the evenings.
In 1985 the first Radio Lollipop outside the UK was started in Perth, Western Australia, at the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children. From these beginnings the organisation has expanded to hospitals in the east coast of Australia, New Zealand and America. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/25/earlyshow/main2974492.shtml, http://www.cmnonline.org/PassItOn/PIO36Lollipop.asp
Radio Lollipop is in one of the largest and most famous specialist children referral hospitals in the world, Great Ormond Street Hospital
for Children, where it provides play services to children in 390 beds on 21 wards. http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/publications/roundabout/october/lollipop.html. It broadcasts radio from a former Jubilee Line
tube train that was craned into the hospital and converted to house the Radio Lollipop studio. http://www.timeout.com/london/big-smoke/features/2817/London_Underground-s_old_tube_trains.html.
; Princess Margaret Hospital
, Perth
; Fremantle Hospital
, Fremantle
; Joondalup Health Campus, Joondalup
; Logan Hospital, Meadowbrook
; Gold Coast Hospital
, Southport
; Kidz First, Middlemore Hospital
, Auckland
;
Manukau Superclinic, Auckland
, Edinburgh
; Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow
; Birmingham Children's Hospital
, Birmingham
; Royal Victoria Infirmary
, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol
; Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton
; Manchester Children's Hospital NHS Trust, Manchester
; Ninewell's Hospital and Medical School, Dundee
; Great Ormond Street Hospital
, London
; Evelina Children's Hospital
, London
, Miami; Texas Children's Hospital
, Houston; Children's Hospital of Orange County,
California
Charitable organization
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for entertaining children in hospital
Hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....
. It organizes volunteers to spend time with children on a one to one basis, taking its name from the radio stations it runs in hospitals playing children's programming - part presented by children themselves.
History
Radio Lollipop was founded in 1978 at Queen Mary's Hospital for ChildrenSt. Helier Hospital
St Helier Hospital is a hospital in the London Borough of Sutton. It is owned and run by Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust....
in Surrey, England, at first primarily as a cable wired radio station for the 460 children in the hospital. The station made its first broadcast on 5 May 1979 the very first Radio Lollipop went on-air.
Following the success of this first station in 1980 the International Year of the Child
International Year of the Child
* Maureen Millicent Bomford founded International Year of The Child and it was endorsed by the United Nations. Maureen was born in Canterbury Punchbowl in 1930 and had four brothers. Her father was a Mayor and she always learned to appreciate the value of leadership. As the wife of a prominent...
Committee provided funding to develop Radio Lollipops in other British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
hospitals.
Over time emphasis shifted from the radio station to volunteers spending time on wards entertaining children in person, by playing games, doing arts and crafts and reading stories. However the "radio", with children's programming and often DJing, remains a central part of the charity. Programming consists of DJ banter with children, interspersed with request songs, and comedy and musical contributions from member hospitals, circulated by CD. In most hospitals the programme is wired to speakers in wards, rather than actually broadcast, however a central studio, with DJs, open to children provides a focal point and base). There is a project underway to carry feed from other hospitals in different time zones throughout the day, via the internet. Radio Lollipop is run entirely by unpaid volunteers, (usually a mix of city business people, retirees and medical students), and usually operates in the evenings.
In 1985 the first Radio Lollipop outside the UK was started in Perth, Western Australia, at the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children. From these beginnings the organisation has expanded to hospitals in the east coast of Australia, New Zealand and America. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/25/earlyshow/main2974492.shtml, http://www.cmnonline.org/PassItOn/PIO36Lollipop.asp
Radio Lollipop is in one of the largest and most famous specialist children referral hospitals in the world, Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children is a children's hospital located in London, United Kingdom...
for Children, where it provides play services to children in 390 beds on 21 wards. http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/publications/roundabout/october/lollipop.html. It broadcasts radio from a former Jubilee Line
Jubilee Line
The Jubilee line is a line on the London Underground , in the United Kingdom. It was built in two major sections—initially to Charing Cross, in central London, and later extended, in 1999, to Stratford, in east London. The later stations are larger and have special safety features, both aspects...
tube train that was craned into the hospital and converted to house the Radio Lollipop studio. http://www.timeout.com/london/big-smoke/features/2817/London_Underground-s_old_tube_trains.html.
Locations
Australia
Calum Chisholms House, BrisbaneBrisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
; Princess Margaret Hospital
Princess Margaret Hospital for Children
Princess Margaret Hospital for Children is a centre for paediatric research and care. The hospital is located on Roberts Road in Subiaco, Western Australia. It is the state's only specialist children's hospital...
, Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
; Fremantle Hospital
Fremantle Hospital
Fremantle Hospital is a 24 hour acute-care public teaching hospital situated in central Fremantle, Western Australia, south of Perth.Fremantle Hospital and Health Service provides 575 beds across all campuses, including a 66 bed psychiatric and psychogeriatric service.The main facility of Fremantle...
, Fremantle
Fremantle, Western Australia
Fremantle is a city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle was the first area settled by the Swan River colonists in 1829...
; Joondalup Health Campus, Joondalup
Joondalup, Western Australia
Joondalup is a regional metropolitan city within Perth, Western Australia, approximately north of Perth's central business district.It acts as the primary urban centre in Perth's outer northern suburbs.-History:...
; Logan Hospital, Meadowbrook
Meadowbrook, Queensland
Meadowbrook is a suburb of Logan City, Queensland, Australia.The Loganlea Golf Course and Logan campus of Griffith University are located in Meadowbrook.-External links:* *...
; Gold Coast Hospital
Gold Coast Hospital
Gold Coast Hospital, located on the Gold Coast, Queensland is a major teaching and referral hospital and the third largest in Queensland. The Gold Coast Hospital has one of the busiest emergency departments in the state...
, Southport
Southport, Queensland
-Sport:The Southport Sharks Australian rules football club has a presence in the area, including a club and function centre.-Transport:The Broadwaterway is a foreshoreway that encourages pedestrians and cyclists to travel along the Broadwater foreshores of Southport.A ferry terminal is planned for...
New Zealand
Starship Children's Hospital, Auckland Hospital, AucklandAuckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
; Kidz First, Middlemore Hospital
Middlemore Hospital
Middlemore Hospital is a major hospital in the suburb of Middlemore, Manukau City, New Zealand. The largest hospital operated by the Counties Manukau District Health Board, it offers tertiary-level care as well as a range of other health and social services for the Counties Manukau...
, Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
;
Manukau Superclinic, Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
United Kingdom
Royal Hospital for Sick ChildrenRoyal Hospital for Sick Children
The Royal Hospital for Sick Children may refer to:*Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh*Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow...
, Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
; Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
; Birmingham Children's Hospital
Birmingham Children's Hospital
The Birmingham Children's Hospital is a children's hospital located in Birmingham, England.It provides general and emergency health care services to children in Birmingham, the West Midlands and beyond. It specialises in liver transplantation, cardiac, and neonatal surgery...
, Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
; Royal Victoria Infirmary
Royal Victoria Infirmary
Originally founded as the Newcastle Infirmary in 1751, the Royal Victoria Infirmary , in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, was opened on 11 July 1906 by Edward VII on of Town Moor given by the Corporation and Freemen. The fully furnished and equipped hospital, containing twenty wards, a nurses' home,...
, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol
Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
; Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton
Southampton
Southampton is the largest city in the county of Hampshire on the south coast of England, and is situated south-west of London and north-west of Portsmouth. Southampton is a major port and the closest city to the New Forest...
; Manchester Children's Hospital NHS Trust, Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
; Ninewell's Hospital and Medical School, Dundee
Dundee
Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea...
; Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children is a children's hospital located in London, United Kingdom...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
; Evelina Children's Hospital
Evelina Children's Hospital
Evelina Children's Hospital is a specialist NHS hospital in London. It is administratively a part of Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and provides teaching hospital facilities for King's College London...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
United States
Miami Children's HospitalMiami Children's Hospital
Miami Children's Hospital is South Florida’s only licensed specialty hospital exclusively for children with more than 650 attending physicians and over 130 pediatric sub-specialists. The 289-bed hospital is renowned for excellence in all aspects of pediatric medicine and is routinely ranked among...
, Miami; Texas Children's Hospital
Texas Children's Hospital
Texas Children's Hospital is a pediatric hospital located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas.With 639 licensed beds and 465 beds in operation, Texas Children's is the largest children's hospital in the United States and is affiliated with the Baylor College of Medicine as that...
, Houston; Children's Hospital of Orange County,
California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...