Chestnut Tree House Children’s Hospice

Chestnut Tree House is the only children’s hospice in Sussex and cares for children and young adults from 0-19 years of age with progressive life-limiting and life-threatening illnesses from all over the county. 

Completed in 2003, the hospice provides a ‘home from home’ environment with 10 children’s’ bedrooms plus family rooms, wet and dry play area, computer and music rooms, multi sensory room and hydrotherapy pool, all set in beautiful gardens.

Chestnut Tree House has the potential to care for as many as 400 families and offers support for the whole family including psychological support, care in bereavement therapy, end of life and respite care and sibling support. 

The hospice will cost approximately £1.25 million per year to run.  Families are not charged for their care and the hospice receives no government funding at all, so it relies completely on the generosity, help and support of the people of Sussex.

Registered Charity No.256789

ST BARNABAS HOSPICE is a charity whose aim is to provide high quality specialist palliative care both within the hospice and in the comfort of patients’ homes treating adults with cancer and motor neurone disease. The hospice provides a 15-bed in-patient unit, a purpose-built day care centre, a specially trained community palliative care team and a bereavement service for relatives.

St Barnabas needs to raise £4.25million to cover its annual operational running costs.  Only about 15 per cent of St Barnabas’ annual running costs are state funded. This means that 85p out of every pound spent by the hospice has to be raised through voluntary donations from Worthing, Adur and Arun.

Patients are never charged for their care at St Barnabas and the hospice depends on the generosity of the public, local organisations, its network of Friends Groups and fundraising events and activities to help raise the balance needed to maintain the high standard of care and comfort in the local community.

Registered Charity No.256789

Lakelands Day Care Hospice is an independent hospice and receives no funding from the Government or any other large scale organisations. We have to raise £250,000 per annum to enable us to continue providing the high level of cancer care that we do. We rely solely upon charitable donations and fundraising to raise such a target. Lakelands Hospice is a Day Care Hospice, which offer support, love and care to individuals on the middle part of their cancer journey (not well enough to work but not ill enough for an impatient unit). We are open Monday to Friday and care for over 70 patients during the week.

Registered Charity No.1062120

Demelza House Children’s Hospice

The Demelza House family provides an oasis of care for children throughout the South East whose medical condition means they are unlikely to reach adult life.
When a child is diagnosed with a life-limiting condition, parents have to cope not only with the fact that they will not reach adulthood, but with the additional demands of providing 24 hour care needs, visits to hospitals as well as looking after other family members.

The Demelza House family is there to help them

Demelza House provides an eight bedded hospice with specialist paediatric nurses in Sittingbourne, Kent. Over 300 children and their families benefit from a wide range of respite and palliative care facilities that include a multi-sensory room, Soft Play, Jacuzzi, and Adolescents’ Room. Available therapies include music, art and aromatherapy. Parents have described having the opportunity of an undisturbed night’s sleep as pure luxury.

It costs £2.2 million per year to run our wide range of hospice services and we receive no statutory funding.

Tel: 01795 845231 Central Fundraising

Registered Charity No.1039651

University Hospital of Leicester

The NHS receives funds from the government to provide healthcare, but there is an ever-increasing demand and new techniques to be supported. The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust aims to provide facilities and a pleasant environment for patients and staff, modern equipment and be a leading centre for research. To do so it relies on charitable fundraising from the generous donations of many individuals, groups and companies.

Charitable Appeals constantly look at the service by providing additional funding for:
• Patient Care
• Items of Equipment
• Medical Research Teaching
• Making the hospital a warm welcoming environment

Tel: 0800 389 1321 Charitable Appeals Office

Registered Charity No: 1056804

The Donna Louise Trust – Treetops Children’s Hospice offers respite, palliative and end of life care for children throughout Staffordshire and South Cheshire, who as a result of illness or accident will not live beyond their teenage years.

 We care for children from birth until the age of 18 within a home from home full of warmth and friendliness where they and their families are looked after by a team of highly skilled specialist nurses.  In addition, our community nursing team offers the same specialised level of care and support to families within their own homes whether providing regular respite or end of life care.

 Our bereavement counselling service helps children and their families cope with the problems of living with the prospect of dying and the reality of living after their child’s death.

 We receive no statutory funding at all and rely entirely on the generosity of individuals, groups and companies.  We need to raise £1.25 million every year to continue to provide this service and if you would like to help please ring Fundraising on 01782 654444 or e mail info@donnalouisetrust.org.

Registered Charity No: 1075597

Cotswold Care Hospice is the registered charity that cares for patients in our part of Gloucestershire, who are faced with cancer and other life threatening illnesses. It is an independent Hospice (i.e. not part of the NHS nor any national organisation such as Marie Curie) and provides its services free of charge. It operates a Day Care Patient Service at the Hospice for up to 17 patients a day, provides an award-winning Hospice at Home Service 24 hours a day 7 days a week for over 100 patients a year and operates Outpatient Clinics, which include Complementary and Diversional Therapies and Specialist Support Groups. Family support including Counselling, Pastoral Care and Bereavement Support are available for those in need.

The Hospice needs to raise £800,000 every year so that we can continue caring for local people. In order to achieve this we have to rely heavily on the generosity and goodwill of organisations and people in the local community for voluntary donations and support.

Registered Charity No. 298627

Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal - Ever wanted to do something really different, to experience a new culture, face your fears and embark on a wonderful adventure? Why not take a Global adventure challenge for the appeal and make the world of difference to the 1.7 million children that rely on the Bristol Children’s Hospital. Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal raises funds exclusively to support & enhance the Bristol Children's hospital to provide much needed additional facilities, comforts and state of the art equipment for patients and their families, but we need your help.

Registered Charity No.104363

Ashgate Hospice is a provider of Specialist Palliative Care serving a North Derbyshire population of approximately 370,000. Its statement of purpose is "To ensure that every ill person with palliative care requirements has access to professional staff of all disciplines who can provide appropriate care in the setting which is most in accordance with the patient's wishes and those of his/her family/carers. To improve the quality of daily life by providing optimum symptom control services and helping to alleviate fear, depression and loneliness". This hospice has just completed a £3 million extension to enable us to meet the need of the locality.

Each year the Hospice has to rely heavily on the support of the local community to raise in excess of £1 million.

Registered Charity No.700636