The Murray Parish Trust

Set up by actors Sarah Parish and James Murray, The Murray Parish Trust was created in memory of their late daughter Ella-Jayne, who died from congenital heart failure in 2009. Since founding the charity in 2014 we have helped raise over £2.5 million for Southampton Children’s Hospital including funding for a brand-new Children’s Emergency & Trauma Department. The Murray Parish Trust’s latest challenge is to raise £5.5 million to fund a revolutionary intra-operative MRI (iMRI) Suite at Southampton Children’s Hospital. Taking images of the brain using intra-operative MRI technology during surgery will make a dramatic difference for children with life-threatening or life-limiting conditions including tumours, hydrocephalus, epilepsy and trauma. The iMRI Suite will make the hospital a next generation centre for paediatric neurosurgery and pioneering research, which will advance the treatment and care of children across the region and beyond.