Projects we Support

Manchester Children's Burns Camps
Run jointly by the Burns Service at the new Royal Manchester Children’s
Hospital, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and volunteers, these
annual camps for burn-injured children have been running for over 15 years
and includes a training programme for young people who have attended the
camp in the past to learn how to become camp leaders.

This is no ordinary holiday – their week long stay in a residential activity
centre allows them to not only experience physically challenging activities
such as rock climbing and abseiling, but also the opportunity to learn about
using make-up or how to handle difficult situations like being teased at
school. It costs over £500 for each child to attend just one Burns Camp.
The Children’s Burns Foundation is committed to providing as many places
as possible at the camps each year.

Research
Burn care has developed rapidly since the Second World War – back in the 1950’s burn injuries involving more than one third of the body surface area were considered fatal, even in healthy young men. In the 1970’s and 1980’s advances were made in techniques for anaesthesia, nutrition, burn wound management and scar modification to improve the quality of life for patients.

Today, state-of-the-art treatments include the use of thermographic imaging cameras for assessing the damage done by a burn under the skin (even when covered by a dressing) and laser doppler equipment for investigating blood circulation.

The Children’s Burns Foundation seek to work closely in partnership with academic institutions to ensure that the clinicians who are delivering burns care during the most critical times after injury are working with techniques in partnership with leading worldwide research. We have pledged to support a number of pump-priming grants towards rehabilitation research. These grants, totalling £25,000 over the next five years, will be used to support a number of local paediatric projects.

Rehabilitation
The care of burn-injured patients doesn’t stop when they leave the Burns Unit; rehabilitation isn’t just about regular appointments at the Outpatients Clinic to check on dressings and scars.

The Children’s Burns Foundation works closely with a number of important organisations such as Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, the National Health Service, Universities and local education authorities to develop programmes to help burn-injured young people live their lives without limits.

We have some big plans in the pipeline for some exciting, ground-breaking projects – watch this space!