Who We Are
At Ronald McDonald House UK, we support families with children who are ill or injured. We provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need medical care.
At Ronald McDonald House UK, we support families with children who are ill or injured. We provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need medical care.
When a child is seriously ill or injured and needs urgent or specialist medical care, a family’s world can change overnight.
Treatment children need is often far from home. Families can be separated, routines are disrupted, and parents and carers can feel exhausted, worried and overwhelmed.
That’s where Ronald McDonald House UK steps in.
Without our Houses, parents and carers are forced into lengthy commutes to and from hospital, or to sleep on hospital chairs, even in their cars.
We provide free accommodation, moments from children’s wards in our partner NHS hospitals. Our Houses are intentionally located within walking distance of hospital wards. This means families are never far from their child’s bedside and can return quickly when needed, without the stress of long, unpredictable and potentially expensive journeys.
By removing practical and financial barriers to staying near hospital, we enable families to be present, informed and involved in their child’s care. Our Houses provide more than accommodation. They offer rest, stability and emotional support that allow parents and carers to engage fully with clinical teams and be active partners in care.
We are an independent charity and rely on the support of donors, fundraisers, volunteers and partners.
Their generosity helps us continue to provide free accommodation and support for families when they need it most.
We work closely with NHS hospital teams, partners and supporters to support families during their child’s treatment.
Together, we help families stay close, supported and connected during some of the most challenging times in their lives.