About Us

Welcome To Brighter Futures

Brighter Futures is the charity for Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust which includes Great Western Hospital and community health sites in Swindon. With your help we can fund that extra special level of care in order to make a real difference to patients, to their families and to our staff.

Current Appeals

Better Births

The birth of a child should be a wonderful, life-changing time for a mother and her whole family. It…

Wellbeing Garden

The coronavirus pandemic has claimed tens of thousands of lives across England with over 300 lives lost…

Children’s Ward Appeal

Every year 4,000 children are admitted to Great Western Hospital Children’s Ward, many with long term…

Voluntary Services

Volunteering in the NHS and wider care system is now getting much recognition and policy priority from…

Dementia Appeal

When you’re living with dementia, the world can feel like a scary and confusing place.

Build a Brighter Future

Our healthcare service saves lives, renews hope and restores health. As a charity, Brighter Futures relies on your generosity to support every patient and every family that needs our help.

Better Births

The birth of a child should be a wonderful, life-changing time for a mother and her whole family. It is a time of new beginnings, of fresh hopes and new dreams, of change and opportunity.

Art Wellbeing Programme

At the Great Western Hospital we believe that art has an important role to play in the healing process.

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Brighter Futures wins Our Health Heroes Award

Brighter Futures took home an award at the Our Health Heroes Awards, in London on 7th June!

Way Forward Appeal – ED to under go major expansion

Ambitious plans to revamp the Emergency Department by providing more space for beds, making the layout more efficient...