EACG consultants give help to hospital

By Rob Virtue on March 4, 2009 2:54 PM |

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They are more used to advising big businesses, but a group of Wharf-based management consultants is now taking time out to help in children's hospitals.

EA Consulting Group, which has recently had its foundation registered as a charity, is offering grants to good causes as well as providing staff to work as consultants.

The first beneficiary is Radio Lollipop, serving the children in Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Evelina Childen's Hospital in St Thomas'.

Consultants are currently putting together a system whereby volunteers can register the times they are available, rather than taking other volunteers away from the wards.

Andrew Kendall, who is chairman of Radio Lollipop London and also a consultant at EACG, introduced the company's management style to the charity.

He said: "As well as giving the charity corporate sponsorship it is bringing in this technology which will greatly improve time-management.

"Radio is a very small part of Radio Lollipop and mostly volunteers are out on the wards, entertaining and cheering up children - generally helping them forget the reason they are in hospital in the first place."

The charity has more than 150 volunteers working with children.

Andrew, who is from Australia, first began working in the charity sector by doing arts and crafts with children in hospitals in Sydney, and was surprised to be given a leading role at Radio Lollipop.

He said: "When I went to Radio Lollipop and asked if they needed help, they saw I worked in management and made me chairman."

To download an application for assistance from the EACG Foundation go to eacg.co.uk.