Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust (ACT)

We’re lucky to have Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (ACT), which raises extra money to improve care, services, and research at Addenbrooke’s and The Rosie.

Your donations help the brilliant teams at Addenbrooke’s develop the innovative ideas that will make our great hospital even better.

• Donations help our teams come up with new ideas and offer care beyond what the NHS can fund.
• ACT funding helps us deliver faster improvements in patient care, beyond what NHS funding alone provides.
• Donations support high-tech equipment, specialist staff, added comforts, and vital research that can save lives locally, nationally, and globally.

Any amount you can donate will help to make a difference.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, generous donations helped us raise £1 million for COVID-19 research. With this money, we were able to buy:

• iPads for patients to communicate with staff and family
• Psychological support for staff
• Research into testing staff for COVID-19 risk (opens in a new tab)
• Fast tests for children with chest infections
• Testing of medicines to treat COVID-19
• Healthy snacks, toiletries, and comforts for frontline staff (opens in a new tab)
• Activity packs for children visiting A&E

Thanks to your donations, we also bought:

• A fourth incubator trolley to help save more babies
• A liver perfusion machine for testing livers before transplant
• A cone beam CT scanner for better surgery planning
• An inflatable MRI scanner to help 1,200 children each year overcome their fears, leading to better results and less need for anaesthesia.

How to help

There are many ways you can support Addenbrooke’s and The Rosie. From donating (opens in a new tab) to fundraising (opens in a new tab), the possibilities are endless!

Visit the Help Your Hospital website (opens in a new tab) to find out more about how your ongoing support can save lives.

Applying for funding

Watch the video to see how we could fund your idea and how together, we can create an even better hospital for everyone.

ACT funding is open to all hospital staff.

Who can apply?

Applications are open to:

• CUH staff, as well as those who hold an honorary contract
• Academic staff from partner universities who work in collaboration with CUH
• Charities and organisations who deliver services and offer support to the wider CUH community

Visit How to apply for funding on the ACT website. (opens in a new tab)