This foundation offers a “home away from home” for families with children suffering long-term illnesses who have had to travel a long way from their place of residence for care, through Ronald McDonald Houses. The house that the Ronald McDonald Foundation has in Barcelona is located near to Vall d'Hebron Hospital and has 15 individual rooms for relatives and different common areas where they can live in a shared environment.

Résonnance España is an organisation whose mission is “to offer classical music where there isn’t any”, make universal access to music easier and improve the quality of life of people going through difficult situations. Its collaboration with Vall d’Hebron allows concerts to be held within the clinical centre, for patients and their relatives.

Non-profit organisation whose mission is to make the dreams of children with chronic illness or poor prognosis come true, with the aim of making their illness or hospital stay more bearable. It is dedicated to making a huge dream come true for each child. It also organises activities in clinical centres such as: decorating hospital rooms, workshops with children, cultural outings, support to other organisations, visits to children, celebrity visits to hospitals.

A non-profit organisation dedicated to raising awareness in the field of palliative care and care for families facing end-of-life care at home. Paliaclínic provides patients and relatives all the help they need to tackle an advanced illness at home and enable a dignified end-of-life, with the least suffering possible and the desired support. This help comes in the form of care support from a social worker at home for families with no resources. The foundation also offers a voluntary service, music therapy and art therapy.

The Hospitalet Foundation makes hospital accommodation available to the relatives of Vall d’Hebron patients when, for financial reasons, they cannot cover the cost of a temporary stay in the city. It has day care facilities, accommodation, leisure services and shelters for socially vulnerable people. The organisation works in close coordination with Vall d’Hebron Hospital healthcare social workers.

The Fundació El Somni dels Nens (Children’s Dream Foundation) aims to improve the quality of life of sick children and their families during long hospital stays. It actively collaborates in humanisation projects in the Maternity and Children's Hospital by fostering mini sponsorship projects to improve and adapt paediatric spaces.    

Volunteers from this organisation use meditation techniques with hospitalised cancer patients based on a prior health assessment.

Founded in Barcelona in 1989, it is a non-profit charity organisation whose purpose is to comprehensively cover the needs of children and young people undergoing cancer treatment in Catalonia. The foundation’s task consists of providing support to families (financial support and accommodation in flats). The organisation works alongside the hospital by inserting social workers into the Vall d'Hebron Hospital Social Work Unit.

Its mission is to help children and young people with special needs and raise public awareness about their issues and interests. The Atresmedia Foundation has a hospital care programme that carries out activities such as “Poción de Héroes” (Hero Potion) - six heroes with superpowers who accompany children undergoing chemotherapy treatment.

The Ànima Foundation is dedicated to comprehensive care for children with chronic or terminal illnesses. It coordinates projects that go from individual care to care in infancy. Its scope includes: psychological and social support; funding and developing support therapies; improving infrastructure of hospital centres; collaboration with research projects; and development of childhood health programmes. Over the years it has made various contributions within its scope to Vall d’Hebron Hospital.