All funds donated to our Charitable Fund directly are reinvested directly into staff health and wellbeing matters, projects and initiatives. Please note that the charity has a number of funds – so it is important that you use our specific fundraising page to make any donation should you wish for your contribution to be used to the explicit benefit of our staff.

To ensure that the staff health and wellbeing charitable fund is used correctly and in line with its intended aim, the fund itself is co-managed by senior colleagues from within Gateshead Health.

While you are free to express a preference for how funds may be used, it should be noted that no guarantee can ever be made as to whether this will be how the funds are used, as all of the funds co-managers must sign-off on any use of our Charitable Fund. Your donation will be added to our entire fund, meaning it will form part of a larger pot of monies.

It should also be noted that many projects and requests are received by the staff health and wellbeing team, while the team also has access to a host of data, feedback and information from staff which informs us around staff needs and desires. As such, we have many outstanding projects and plans that your contribution may go towards – so we’re never struggling for ideas!

As per the above question, we cannot guarantee explicitly how your donation may be used. However, to use examples to give you an idea of how a donation might be used:

• £10.00 might help fund teas, coffees and biscuits for an under-pressure team that’d benefit from a break
• £50.00 might help fund the continued provision of free sanitary products for colleagues
• £100 might help fund the upkeep of our website for a month
• £1000 might help fund an initiative that is available to all – like a sleep seminar, exercise classes or the continued presence of our staff welfare dog