Hugh Fraser Foundation 2025 Funding

The Archie Foundation is delighted to announce the continued partnership we have with the Hugh Fraser Foundation, who have decided to extend their support of our vital emergency grants programme for another two years.

This programme is a vital aspect of our work with children and their families attending Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, Tayside Children’s Hospital and the Highland Children’s Unit, and its importance continues to grow as more families face urgent and unexpected financial challenges each year.

We support neonatal and paediatric healthcare right across North Scotland from birth (including babies born too sick or too soon) to adulthood.

Archie’s Emergency Grants programme is a vital service providing:

• Travel costs to and from hospital, to help ensure all children can access the healthcare support they need. Travel costs also apply to parents who are juggling being there for a child in hospital while also being there for other children at home – an impossible task.
• Emergency overnight accommodation, for parents who live too far from the hospital, or those who have a child they need to be with 24/7.
• Support with household bills when their child is in hospital, and they are off work, so they can be with them.
• Hot meals and drinks within the hospital and at their child’s bedside.
• Fresh clothing and pyjamas for children admitted in an emergency.
• Essential toiletries for children arriving without even the basics.

Over the past five years the funding contributions made by the Hugh Fraser Foundation have helped make it possible for our charity to offer this vital emergency funding programme to far more deprived families than previously, and with a further commitment over the next two years, their continued support will help us in our journey to keep providing this service in support of sick children and their families across North Scotland in the years to come.

This support offers children and their families a great deal of comfort and relief during very difficult times, and we want to thank the Hugh Fraser Foundation very much for their contribution, which will have a profound impact on their healing journey.