Up for a cycling challenge in 2018? We’d love you to join our Tour de Furness team on 9 September. You have a choice of four routes from 5 to 50 miles to test your physical fitness and take in some of the most breathtaking scenery the Furness peninsula has to offer. Find Find out more
Teeing off for a year of fundraising to support the new South Lakes Birth Centre is community midwife and Barrow Golf Club’s new Lady Captain, Kathryn Hampson. Why Kathryn is supporting the South Lakes Birth Centre Kathryn has worked as a local midwife for many years. She said: “When it came to nominating my chosen Find out more
Tea-time trolley dashes have helped raise £843.78 for Bay Hospitals Charity’s Bayb’s Maternity Appeal. The donation has come from the Co-op Local Community Fund after stores in Ainslie Street, Harrell Lane, Oxford Street and Roose Road, Barrow, along with Barrow Co-op Funeralcare, selected the charity as their local cause. Co-op Community Fund 1% spent on Find out more
Take part in our Super Sands Walk weekend this July and support your local hospitals. The Cross Bay and Piel Island walks are a fabulous way to raise money for your local hospitals, which we all love. As the NHS turns 70 on 5 July, this is a great way to celebrate, keep fit and Find out more
Fundraising with a smile! A charity comedy night at The Imperial Hotel, Barrow, organised by members of the Hindpool Tigers brought more than a smile to the faces of supporters of the Bayb’s Maternity Appeal when the rugby league club’s chairman Graham Shaw presented them with the proceeds – a donation of £300! The evening Find out more
When Janice Studholme became 60 in January, she turned her milestone birthday party into a fundraiser for the oncology unit at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI) to say thank you to staff for the care her family have received at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) over the past 14 years. The fundraiser Find out more
MedEquip4Kids donated £28,600 to the Bayb's Maternity Appeal in July to buy six resuscitaires for the brand new South Lakes Birth Centre in Barrow. We were delighted to take Ghazala Baig, Chief Executive of MedEquip4Kids and Vincent Boodeea of VINCI Construction UK on a tour of the new maternity unit to see the equipment which was Find out more
This Easter we'd love you to make a donation to our Children's Wards at Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI) and Furness General Hospital (FGH) rather than giving chocolate eggs. You can make a huge difference to our young patients. How your donation could help £5 could buy arts and crafts materials to entertain our younger patients Find out more
There was a full house for the Bayb’s Maternity Appeal when members of Broughton Ladies Guild staged their annual bingo and raffle night in Victory Hall, Broughton. More than 200 people played to win prizes donated by local businesses. Money from the sale of bingo cards and raffle tickets raised £1,440, which the guild’s 14 Find out more
Pupils of Walney Island’s St Columba’s RC Primary School were on a roll when it came to raising funds for the Bayb’s Maternity Appeal. Children from the school’s Little Doves Nursery, Reception and Years One and Two raised £1,500 for our appeal when they took in their wheelie toys from home – scooters and dolls Find out more
