A DUNFERMLINE business has successfully funded a Vein Finder for use at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh.

Eclipse (IP), a bespoke security systems company based in the city, has been supporting The Cookie Jar Foundation, which helps place vein finding equipment into local hospital wards, since April last year. 

Neil Alexander, director of Eclipse (IP) Ltd. said:“ Eclipse (IP) Ltd are proud supporters of The Cookie Jar Foundation.

“We are delighted to be helping, promoting and advocating for their cause. The work that The Cookie Jar Foundation carries out is wonderful, they support their local communities in a number of ways.

"One of these being providing Vein Finders to hospitals. Eclipse (IP) are thrilled to have the opportunity to help out providing this vein finder to The Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh.”

The Cookie Jar Foundation was set up in memory of Christopher 'Cookie' Coutts who died after a two-year cancer battle in 2013.

The Aberdour family discovered the devices, which allow veins to be found easily by scanning, during a visit to Manchester's Christie Centre, after the former Inverkeithing High pupil struggled with stress and anxiety surrounding IV procedures.

Cookie vowed to raise funds to place these devices in local hospitals so that others wouldn’t have to suffer the stress that he did.

This has become Christopher’s legacy and his family has placed 26 of these devices into wards throughout Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife.

Dunfermline Press: The business donated enough to be able to place a vein finder in the A&E.

Deborah Coutts, founder and trustee at The Cookie Jar Foundation, said: “We are very grateful that Eclipse (IP) have supported us during this important year for the charity which marked 10 years since the family lost Chris and with October seeing what would have been his 30th birthday.

"Neil and Ali have always expressed that their main aim was to donate enough to enable them to help place a vein finder into the A&E department at The Royal Hospital for Children and Young People.

"We have several requests from hospitals and like to include the donors and fundraisers when it comes to placing the vein finders by giving them the choice of where their donation is placed, and include them in the handover."