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When you join Team Variety, you’re not only supporting a good cause, you are helping to improve the lives of sick, disabled and disadvantaged children all over the UK

Variety Club Children's Charity has one aim - to improve the lives of sick, disabled, disadvantaged children and young people throughout the UK. In 60 years of existence, around £220 million has been raised and distributed to countless youngsters.

Each year thousands of appeals for help are received. Grants are given for hospitals, hospices, specialists beds, car seats, sensory equipment, walkers, standers and many other items. Variety Club donations can be for major hospital appeals or for a few pounds for basic household items, for example, bedding and washing machines.

Variety Club is particularly pleased to have donated almost £5 million, so far, to King's College Hospital to help build and enhance the Variety Club Children's Hospital at King's and the ongoing donations are ensuring its continuation as a leading children's hospital.

The Sunshine coach Programme was launched in 1962 and over 4,800 minibuses have been given to schools with disabled and disadvantaged pupils, children, children's hospitals, hospices and other organisations. These vehicles take children on trips for education, leisure, sports and fun - an opportunity to explore a bigger and better world and a lifeline to a brighter future.

In 1988 the Easy Riders Wheelchair Programme was introduced and over 3,270 custom-designed wheelchairs and buggies have been donated to disabled children. For a child who uses a wheelchair the simplest of freedoms seem unattainable. The Variety Club aims to make their journey a little easier.

Variety never forgets how important it is for children to have fun. Every year tens of thousands of youngsters are entertained at parties, theatres, theme parks, football grounds and other attractions through its Variety at Work Programme. These events give magical moments to children who often face difficulties in their young lives.

The Variety Club fulfils innumerable children's dreams each year and finds it hard to say no to a youngster in distress.