ACCORD Hospice provides specialist palliative care to the community of Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire. This care is provided to over 500 patients and families each year by our multi-disciplinary team which includes our three consultants, In Patient care (8 beds) Day Care (15 places) Community Nurse Specialists (5) and a whole range of different therapies and support services. Over £2 million is required each year.
Acorns Children’s Hospice Trust cares for life limited children and their families from across the West Midlands. Acorns offers a network of care through its hospices in Birmingham, Walsall and Worcester and its community team who are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The charity has helped over 1100 families but it is estimated that a further 1200 families still need the support that Acorns can provide.
ACT is the only organisation working across the UK to achieve a better quality of life and care for every life-limited child and their family
To Build a Children's Hospice Service for Berkshire
The Arthur Rank Hospice Charity supports patients, families, staff and volunteers at Arthur Rank House, the adult Hospice in Cambridgeshire. The Charity is totally responsible for funding the Day Hospice and co-funds the Hospice at Home Services as well as providing vital financial support to the in-patient unit.
Ashgate Hospice is an independent registered charity covering North Derbyshire, providing specialist palliative care to terminally ill adults and their families. Care is provided on the ward, day centre, out patient suite and at home and all services are provided free of charge. £1M must be raised annually from voluntary giving.
The Ayrshire Hospice provides specialist palliative care to the community of Ayrshire. This care is provided by a multi-disciplinary team led by a Medical Director and includes In-Patient Care (20 beds), Day Care (16 places per day) and Specialist Palliative Homecare Nursing Team. Our services are provided at no cost to patients or families, but as a charity, we are heavily dependant upon voluntary donations to meet expenses.We currently require to raise, from voluntary sources, £3.2m per year.
Barnsley Hospice aims to promote quality of life for those people with symptoms associated with life limiting conditions. This is achieved by addressing the physical, psychological and spiritual needs of the patient and those closest to them, regardless of religion, ethnic origin or status.
Bassetlaw Hospice has for the last 11years provided specialist palliative care and support for patients with a life limiting illness. It provides Day Care services for up to ten patients a day, and a specialist six-bed roomed in patient unit for respite, symptom management and final phase care. It makes no charge for the service and aims to offer support to both patients and their families, adding hopefully life to days, when days cannot always be added to a life.
Beaumond House Community Hospice provides high quality care for people diagnosed with life threatening or long term progressive illnesses. These services also extend to carers and families.
Every year Birmingham St Mary's Hospice cares for about 1,000 people whose lives are drawing to a close because of illness, usually cancer. The fundamental aim is to help patients to enjoy the best quality of life possible for whatever time they have left and to support families in their bereavement for as long as needed.
Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice is a charity raising funds to build a dedicated children’s hospice to serve families living in the South Yorkshire and North Midlands area. Currently in this catchment alone there are over 200 children suffering from life-limiting and terminal conditions, who are not receiving the support and care that they need.
Situated in Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, Blythe House Hospice is High Peak's only day-care hospice. The principal activity of the hospice is the provision of specialist palliative care services and support for people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses and the extension of support to their families. The services we provide are free to the user but not cost free. We receive less than one-third of our essential running costs from the local Primary Care Trust and we aim to raise £6000 from charitable donations each week. A £2.50 donation will pay for lunch for one of our clients, £10 will provide art therapy equipment, £20 will pay for a complementary therapy session, £30 means someone will receive a much needed counselling session. Every donation makes a difference. Thank you for your support.
Breath of Hope Children' Charity raises funds to help make poorly Children Smile. Monies raised through Breath of Hope help us to facilitate entertainment programs in Hospitals, Hospices and for Families of Terminally Ill and poorly Children this ranges from fundays in hospitals, days out, wish grants.
Bury Hospice delivers very special nursing and medical care to local men and women who are living with a life-threatening or terminal illness whilst supporting their families and carers.
The Butterfly Hospice Trust aims to purpose build and support a six-bed hospice on a four-acre site which we own, to increase specialist care treatment choices available to patients with life limiting illnesses who live in South East Lincolnshire. The services provided will be free to the user.
Butterwick Hospice Care aims to improve the quality of life for those who have a progressive life limiting illness and those close to them. To offer positive support for every challenge they may encounter during their illness and to see death as part of life's journey. A life limiting illness changes everything, moves all the parameters in your life and the lives of those around you. Butterwick Hospice Care intends to be there for those in this situation and to listen, guide and support the patients and their family. Adult patients are cared for at facilities based in Stockton and Bishop Auckland. Butterwick House Children's Hospice, also located in Stockton, was the first of its kind in the North East and is still the only one accepting children from birth to 19 and providing end of life care. Admissions are made from Teesside, North Yorkshire, County Durham and Wearside.
CHASE offers a diversity of needs based care and support for life-limited children and their families through its community care team and at the CHASE children's hospice - Christopher's - near Guildford. CHASE currently cares for 240 families throughout Surrey, SW London and Sussex.
Cherished Memories organises high- profile events and special days of family bonding for life-limited and disabled children from hospices in South East England. A recorded DVD of the day is sent onto the families, so they can look back on and remember with love and happiness.
Cherry Trees is a very special place. It provides day and overnight short-term respite care for children from tiny babies up to their 19 birthday who have a learning or physical disability. This allows parents to have the very necessary breaks they need from caring for their children 24 hours a day and to catch up with their lives and devote time to the rest of the family.
Chestnut Tree House, the only children's hospice in Sussex, cares for life-limited children and young adults aged 0-19, and provides support for their families.
The Children's Hospice Association Scotland, (CHAS) provides respite care, terminal care and bereavement support to families who have a child or children who will sadly die before they reach adulthood. Rachel House in Kinross is Scotland’s first children’s hospice, opened in March 1996 and Robin House in Balloch opened in 2005
Children's Hospice South West first welcomed families in 1995 to Little Bridge House, North Devon, and opened a second hospice, Charlton Farm near Bristol in April 2007. This instantly doubled its capacity from 200 to 400 families each year. Children's Hospice South West operate the only two children's hospices in the South West; they offer respite, relaxation, friendship and a sense of community. The hospice also shares the 24-hour care of sick children and supports families in bereavement.
Children’s Hospices UK is the charity that gives voice and support to all children’s hospice services. There is an estimated 20,000 children in the UK who are not expected to reach adulthood. Our vision is for all these children - and their families - to have awareness of, and access to, the highest standards of hospice care and support in the location of their choosing. Children's Hospices UK is the working name of the Association of Children's Hospices which is a charity registered in England (1103795).
Compton Hospice, a local charity in Wolverhampton, is a specialist provider of palliative care and education. In collaboration with others we influence quality of life through excellence in patient care, whilst ensuring effective use of available resources.
It offers emotional support, practical help and information to the cancer community and carers throughout the north east. the organisation is volunteer led and most volunteers have first hand knowledge of cancer.
Cornwall Hospice Care provides care and support throughout Cornwall, for people living with life-threatening illnesses, their families and carers, not only in our two hospices - St Julia’s in Hayle and Mt Edgcumbe in St Austell - but also in outreach centres across the county. Last year, nearly 500 people benefited from over 7,400 bed days, receiving treatment to alleviate pain and control symptoms. The care given to patients and their families is provided free of charge, but costs us over £5 million annually (£10 a minute). Only 13% of this is funded by the government which means that we rely heavily on the generous support of the general public, donations, challenges and fundraising events. All the money we raise stays in Cornwall.
Cotswold Care Hospice helps to maximise the quality of life for thousands of people in Gloucestershire – patients and their families–living with life-limiting illnesses. Their wide range of services are provided free of charge and they need to raise £1,000,000 every year so that they can continue caring.
Countess Mountbatten Hospice provides specialist palliative care for patients where curative treatment is no longer possible both within the hospice and in their homes and the community. Our objective is to imporve the quality of life of patients while extending care and support to their family and partners.
The Hospice provides palliative care to adults suffering from cancer who reside in the Andover area. Within its six bed in-patient unit and ten place day centre the hospice offers symptom control, respite care, terminal care, complementary therapies, family support and bereavement services all delivered in a peaceful and homely environment, believing that each person is special and every day counts.
Cransley Hospice in Kettering provides Hospice care for North Northamptonshire. It is also the base for local Macmillan nurses who provide specialist care in the local hospitals and in patients' homes. Although within the NHS, Cransley Hospice relies heavily on charitable donations with the current requirement being £500,000 every year.
It offers a free bereavement support service to ANYONE in Scotland, regardless of their loss suffered, age, gender etc. Support is generally through one-to-one face-to-face contact, but in some areas groups are available. Support can be accessed via the helpline number. Full details of services, training and volunteering opportunities can be accessed via the Website.
The Friends Of Cynthia Spencer Hospice is a registered charity and was formed in 1990 by a few individuals; all of whom had come into contact with the Hospice when their respective husbands, wives and close family members had been patients. Since our formation we have gone from strength to strength and do a tremendous amount of fund-raising ourselves. The three main aims of the charity are: * To raise funds to help with the provision of items which are not available via the N.H.S and to buy those much needed extras for our patients. * To give support to the medical staff and patients in any way we can. * To promote awareness in the local community. The charity’s costs are minimal and therefore the majority of the funds raised are spent on patient care.
Demelza Children's Hospice Services cares for life-limited children and their families across Kent, East Sussex and South London. The services combine Demelza House, an eight-bedded hospice in Kent, Demelza James a hospice-at-home service based in East Sussex and Demelza's Child project in South London.
Providing specialist care and support for children with a terminal or life threatening illness. The hospice is open 365 days a year offering support to children and their families, yet as a charity only receives statutory funding for just 5 weeks. With more than £1.7 million needed each year it remains almost totally reliant on voluntary funding.
The Donna Louise Trust is the only children's hospice service for Staffordshire and South Cheshire, providing respite and end of life care for children with life limiting conditions who are not expected to live beyond their teenage years.
Every day Dorothy House Hospice Care supports and cares for more than 800 families affected by cancer, and other life threatening conditions, either in the comfort of their own homes or at the hospice in Winsley. All patient care is free of charge, funded by the generosity of local people, with some contribution from the NHS.
Douglas Macmillan Hospice provides specialist palliative care for adults across North Staffordshire and bordering areas, who have cancer and other life limiting illnesses, completely free of charge . The Hospice needs to raise over £7 million each year and with no association with any national charity or organisation bearing a similar name, the Hospice is dependent upon the continuing generosity of our supporters.
Dr Kershaw's Hospice provides specialist palliative care for adults with life-threatening illnesses in a peaceful and homely environment with accommodation for 12 inpatients and 15 day places. Dr Kershaw's serves a population of 230,000 people from Oldham and its surrounding districts.
Duchess of Kent House (hospice) has 16 in-patient beds, day therapy facilities (3 days a week), out-patients and a Family Support Service (bereavement), providing palliative (hospice) care for the population of west and central Berkshire. In the last 15 years over 12,000 patients have been treated and cared-for by a team of 50 (full-time equivalent) consultants, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational and speech therapists, admin & site staff, etc. This care continues after death for those relatives who wish it through the FSS. All care is provided free of charge, according to need. As with all parts of the National Health Service there is never enough money to pay for all aspects of what we technically call ‘specialist palliative care’. This is where the independent charity Duchess of Kent House Trust comes in. Since 2002, the Duchess of Kent House Trust (independent charity) has raised £1,500,000 for the unit to pay for the Family Support Service, 2 in-patient beds otherwise not available, the dietician, chaplaincy, psychologist, aromatherapist, and equipment. Please support this local charity caring for local patients and their families. Thank you very much.
Meadow House Hospice provides Specialist Palliative Care Service in West London. The in-patients’ unit and Day Hospice aim to help patients adjust to the physical, psychological and social implications of progressive illness. Specialist nurses provide palliative care at home and a family support team assists families, both practically and emotionally.
The Earl Mountbatten Hospice is the Island's only hospice. It cares for over 800 people at any one time, people who have been given a life limiting diagnosis. To continue to be able to provide free care we need to raise £2 million per year.
East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH) has three children's hospice care services based at Milton in Cambridge, Ipswich and Quidenham in Norfolk. EACH is a registered charity which relies on public support for around 75% of its required income of approximately £5.5 million a year. EACH help local life-threatened children and their families with the emotional and physical challenges they face by providing expert care and a range of other essential support in a home-from-home environment or in the comfort of their own home.
East Cheshire Hospice provides special care for adults with life-limiting illnesses from which there is no cure and also supports their families and carers. Our services are completely free and we need to raise over £5,500 every single day just to keep going.
East Lancashire Hospice provides Specialist Palliative care to patients suffering from life threatening illness from Blackburn Darwen Hyndburn & Ribble Valley. Care is provided by a professional specialist team which includes Inpatients Day Therapy Hospice at Home and outpatients at no cost. We currently need £1.2M to continue to operate the service annually.
Ellenor Lions Hospices is a registered charity (registered charity number 1121561) and a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (company registration number 6302132). Our registered office is at The Lions Hospice, Coldharbour Road, Northfleet, Gravesend, Kent DA11 7HQ. Ellenor Hospice at Home and Ellenor Shining Lights Childrens Hospice at Home are part of Ellenor Lions Hospices.
The Lions Hospice cares for those with life shortening illness. They care for those with cancer and other diseases including Motor Neurone Disease, AIDS, organ failure and many more. Offering physical, emotional and social support to patients and their loved ones during and after their illness, Hospice care is free of charge.
At probably the most difficult time in their lives, Fair Havens provides the dignity, medical care and support to patients and their families. The hospice offers comfort to people suffering from cancer and other life-threatening illnesses throughout Southend, Rochford and Castle Point. Annually, it needs to raise £2.1 million