The Murray Parish Trust raise vital funds to advance paediatric emergency medicine

Set up by actors Sarah Parish and James Murray, The Murray Parish Trust was created in memory of their late daughter Ella-Jayne, who died from congenital heart failure in 2009. Since founding the charity in 2014 we have helped raise over £2.5 million for Southampton Children’s Hospital including funding for a brand-new Children’s Emergency & Trauma Department. The Murray Parish Trust’s latest challenge is to raise £5.5 million to fund a revolutionary intra-operative MRI (iMRI) Suite at Southampton Children’s Hospital. Taking images of the brain using intra-operative MRI technology during surgery will make a dramatic difference for children with life-threatening or life-limiting conditions including tumours, hydrocephalus, epilepsy and trauma. The iMRI Suite will make the hospital a next generation centre for paediatric neurosurgery and pioneering research, which will advance the treatment and care of children across the region and beyond.