Throughout the year we arrange a wide variety of events for heart children, their parents and siblings. These events help to reduce isolation, improve local support networks and enable families to meet others in a similar situation.

Treatment and care can feel very different when families leave the specialist surgical centre and need help locally. Families gain support from talking to and connecting with people who have experienced a similar journey to them. In addition to our own events, we also encourage our volunteer community contacts to arrange small local gatherings for groups of parents and children.

Parents frequently tell us how much they value ECHO events and consider them a key part of the service we provide to support heart families.

We need volunteers to help organise and run our events. If you’re interested in helping, please get in touch to find out more.