Radio Lollipop
One in four children are admitted to hospital before reaching the age of 14.
Radio Lollipop believes in the healing power of play – providing smiles and laughter to children at a time when they need it most. Though some patients are short-stay, many have a recurring need for care and return repeatedly to hospital. Some who are terminally ill spend much of their short lives in hospital.
Radio Lollipop gives young patients a voice and a choice during their stay. While they can’t say “no” to taking their medicine or receiving treatment, they can request their favourite songs, win prizes and hear their own voices on the radio. Those activities give youngsters a haven of normality in the hospital day which in other respects is strange, different and often scary.
Each Radio Lollipop Volunteer has a commitment to provide 2 hours per week of interactive play with children using a comprehensive range of fun and interactive activities developed over the years by Radio Lollipop. A broadcast radio studio is part of the armoury of activities in our “toy box” and is provided at most hospitals where the Radio Lollipop service operates, providing a unique child-orientated programme of interactive competitions, music, stories and games.
If you want to be part of the magic that is Radio Lollipop - Play In Place Of Pain for children spending time in hospital, come along to our Volunteer Information Day at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, DD2 1GZ on
SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER 2026 from 2pm -4pm.
Contact us at vcnew.edinburgh@radiolollipop to let us know you are coming along. Please quote NHS Tayside.
Alternatively if you want to be part of the magic that is Radio Lollipop, volunteering in Tayside Children’s Hospital, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, please visit us at – Radio Lollipop - Play in Place of Pain or email us chair.dundee@radiolollipop.org and quote reference NHS Tayside.
Radio Lollipop believes in the healing power of play – providing smiles and laughter to children at a time when they need it most. Though some patients are short-stay, many have a recurring need for care and return repeatedly to hospital. Some who are terminally ill spend much of their short lives in hospital.
Radio Lollipop gives young patients a voice and a choice during their stay. While they can’t say “no” to taking their medicine or receiving treatment, they can request their favourite songs, win prizes and hear their own voices on the radio. Those activities give youngsters a haven of normality in the hospital day which in other respects is strange, different and often scary.
Each Radio Lollipop Volunteer has a commitment to provide 2 hours per week of interactive play with children using a comprehensive range of fun and interactive activities developed over the years by Radio Lollipop. A broadcast radio studio is part of the armoury of activities in our “toy box” and is provided at most hospitals where the Radio Lollipop service operates, providing a unique child-orientated programme of interactive competitions, music, stories and games.
If you want to be part of the magic that is Radio Lollipop - Play In Place Of Pain for children spending time in hospital, come along to our Volunteer Information Day at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, DD2 1GZ on
SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER 2026 from 2pm -4pm.
Contact us at vcnew.edinburgh@radiolollipop to let us know you are coming along. Please quote NHS Tayside.
Alternatively if you want to be part of the magic that is Radio Lollipop, volunteering in Tayside Children’s Hospital, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, please visit us at – Radio Lollipop - Play in Place of Pain or email us chair.dundee@radiolollipop.org and quote reference NHS Tayside.