bed push

bed push

- A fundraising event, sometimes run by hospitals, in which a wheeled bed is pushed through the streets to raise awareness of the campaign.
See also related terms for streets.
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Last May 2018 they held the firstever Cardiff Bay Bed Push Challenge to celebrate the NHS at 70, with more than 300 staff, patients and members of the public taking part in the 5k and 10k races.
Health charity helps you keep fit in a good cause; If you'd like to run, walk or cycle for charity in 2019, Cardiff & Vale Health Charity have plenty to offer. Here, they look back at some of their best events last year, including the hugely successful Cardiff Half Marathon
From left, Katie Meehan, Cara Felton, Charlotte Hulme and Sarah Charlesworth in 1990 169495662 St Francis' Church Brownies at Fixby collected used current issue, old and foreign stamps to hand over to the Examiner Stop Press appeal to help Kirkwood Hospice raise funds in 1990 169495551 Staffat the Huddersfield branch of the Skipton Building Society in Ramsden Street donned victorian costumes to raise cash for the hospice in 1993 169495592 This Thomas The Tank engine bed raised money for both Kirkwood Hospice and the special care baby unit at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary at Shepley Bed Push in 1988.
In step for a good cause
NEARLY 300 people descended on Cardiff Bay Barrage last weekend to take part in a "bed push" to mark the 70th birthday of the NHS.
Hundreds join in bed push to mark NHS anniversary
The 70th anniversary of the NHS is to be celebrated in Cardiff on Sunday, May 20 by a hospital bed push and a 5k and 10k fun run around Cardiff Bay's most iconic landmarks.
The first ever NHS Bed Push Challenge is taking place in Cardiff Bay this weekend; Celebrating 70 years of the NHS, all money raised will go straight to helping patients in need
The current interns are doing a sponsored bed push on the 16th of March to raise money for polo shirts to kit out the 2018 intake.
Medical lab job thanks to pioneering internship
Also pictured are a hardy dozen souls who took part in a fancy dress bed push from Loftus to Brotton in November 1986 to raise money for the North Yorkshire and Cleveland branch of the Motor Neurone Disease Association.
Charity a real pushover!
While the county went crazy for the like of Sir Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish as the Tour of Britain passed through, a charity bed push was also taking place at one of the event's stage finish points.
Blyth hosts charity bed push on same day as Tour of Britain rides into town; The Northumberland town staged the Northern heat of Premier Inn's charity bed push on the same day as it welcomed the Tour of Britain
A Bed Push protest against the closure of Jarrow Walk-In Centre Tim McGuinness
Patients take to streets in protest
A SO-CALLED charity bed push organised by loyalist Willie Frazer has been banned from passing a parades flashpoint.
Frazer's bed push faces restrictions
An eight mile bed push got underway from the Black Horse pub in Rhostyllen to raise vital money for Wrexham's Nightingale House Hospice.
Bed push raises hospice money
THE plight of people with learning disabilities and their carers was highlighted by a sponsored bed push through Coventry city centre.
Bed push demo a symbolic gesture; PETITION: Stunt highlights limited social lives of people with learning disabilities

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