I have set up an Open Collective to do some fundraising for my local Cardiology Department. Long term I wish to raise money for equipment, amenities and things like patient taxis, but in the short term I am looking to help fund the staff Christmas party.

Like many parts of the NHS, the budgets are super tight. I found out recently that the Christmas meal for the cardiology ward this year is going to be cancelled as there is no budget for it. This breaks my heart (pun only slightly intended), and I would like to help fund it.

I am offering to teach people how to code, or help out junior programmers still early on in their journey. If you are interested, or know someone who is, please consider checking out the Open Collective.

I have added some tiered “contribution rewards” to give an idea of what might be a good contribution in return for a desired service. Having said this, this is supposed to be a charitable cause and there are no fixed prices. I can certainly arrange with someone to have some group or one-to-one mentoring for less than the tiered listings.

At a minimum, anyone contributing any amount will get access to a Discord server where I and some other volunteers will help out with any programming questions you’d like to ask, and are more than happy to also help debug problems.

Additionally, if you have no interest at all in learning to code, but feel like you’d like to contribute even a small amount, please do so. I have opted to use Open Collective as it’s a platform conducive to openness and transparency - all money used to help the ward and its staff will have invoices posted to that page.

I know this is not the most engaging programming content, so apologies if this of little interest to you - feel free to ignore or even downvote.