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Helen & Douglas House
Helen & Douglas House is a registered charity providing respite and end of life care for children and young adults with life-shortening conditions, as well as support and friendship for the whole family. The two hospice houses are bright, vibrant and positive places, where the emphasis is on living life to the full, even when that life may be short. Helen House opened 25 years ago, and was then the world’s first children’s hospice; Douglas House is the world’s first hospice for young adults, which opened in 2004. Together they add “life to years” through rest and recuperation, treatment of distressing symptoms, end of life care, family support and education.
www.squashed-tomato.co.uk/helenanddouglas
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I CAN
I CAN is the charity that helps children communicate. We work to foster the development of speech and language skills in all children, with a particular focus on children who find this hard, children with a communication disability.
The ability to communicate affects our ability to learn, form relationships and make friends. In the UK one in ten children has a communication disability. That’s almost three in every classroom. Without the right help at the right time, these children are left out and left behind.
At I CAN we believe that no child should be written off. This is why we work so hard to train teacher, advise parents and run schools where even children with the most severe problems can thrive.
You can find out more about I CAN’s work helping children communicate at www.ican.org.uk
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Macmillan Cancer Support
Our ambition
Macmillan’s ambition is to reach and improve the lives of everyone living with cancer by 2010.
What we do
Macmillan Cancer Support improves the lives of people affected by cancer.
We are a source of support: providing practical, medical, emotional and financial support. We are a force for change: listening to people affected by cancer and working together for better cancer care.
www.squashed-tomato.co.uk/macmillan
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Rainbow Trust
About Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity
Established in 1986, Rainbow Trust provides vital practical and emotional support to families who have a child with a life threatening or terminal illness. Regional Family Support Workers provide care in the families’ own homes through diagnosis, treatment and beyond bereavement. This complements the much needed respite breaks offered to families at our two Rainbow Houses in Surrey and Northumberland.
Rainbow Houses are warm, welcoming homes with well equipped playrooms, indoor swimming pools and gardens that all the family can enjoy. Family Support Workers ensure families have someone to rely on at all times, their service is totally bespoke to each family but can include providing hospital transport, helping with school runs and household chores or giving healthy siblings a fun day out.
Rainbow Trust aims to maintain a sense of normality and keep families together through traumatic times with no time limit. We support 1000 families a year which is only 10% of those who need our help and we are 100% reliant on voluntary funding.
www.rainbowtrust.org.uk
www.squashed-tomato.co.uk/rainbow
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Richard House
Richard House Children’s Hospice (registered charity no. 1059029), London’s first hospice for children, provides essential respite and terminal care to over 150 children and their families ever year. The children that visit Richard House, mostly from Greater London and neighbouring parts of Essex, are life-limited or life-threatened, which means that they are unlikely to live until adulthood.
We need to raise £2million in charitable donations this year to keep our doors open and to provide support to as many families as possible. Ordering cards from Squashed Tomato is just one of the ways in which you can help us to make a real difference to some of London’s most vulnerable children and families.
For more information about our work, or to learn how you can get involved at the hospice, please visit our website at www.richardhouse.org.uk or call 020 7511 0222. Thank you very much for your support.
www.squashed-tomato.co.uk/richardhouse
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St Ann's Hospice
St Ann's Hospice cares for thousands of patients with life-threatening illnesses while supporting their families and carers in Greater Manchester.
We depend on the generosity of the local community to raise £6 million a year from voluntary contributions to maintain this service free of charge to our patients, as we receive only 35% funding from the NHS.
Voted in the ‘Top 10 Best Companies to Work For’ by The Sunday Times for the past 3 years, St Ann’s Hospice relies on legacies, our hospice lottery, and our charity shops as part of our fundraising activities, which sees 89.4p in every £1 raised is spent on supporting patient care.
St Ann’s Hospice is one of the largest adult hospices in the UK with 61 Inpatient beds, plus day care, therapy and respite home care for hundreds of outpatients. Contrary to popular belief, not all patients go into a hospice to die. Up to 40% of Inpatients at St Ann’s Hospice return home after treatment.
www.sah.org.uk
Registered Charity Number is 258085.
www.squashed-tomato.co.uk/stanns
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St Oswald's
St Oswald’s provides hospice care for adults and children with life limiting conditions. Situated in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, our purpose–built facilities offer a range of flexible services to North East families throughout Northumberland and Tyne and Wear. St Oswald’s follows a holistic approach that aims to address not just the physical, but also the spiritual and emotional needs too. Despite the complexity of the conditions we address and the specialist skills involved at St Oswald’s, the core of what we do is simple. We listen, listen to the patient’s needs and wants and address them. The patient or child is at the centre of what we do. It is about valuing a person, seeing them as a person and not a condition.
We are a registered charity with annual running costs that exceed £6 million. £4.5 million must be raised through voluntary giving. No charge is made for any of our services; ensuring hospice care is available to everyone.
www.squashed-tomato.co.uk/stoswalds
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St Peter & St James Hospice
St Peter and St James Hospice and Continuing Care Centre was established more than thirty years ago to meet the needs of people with life limiting illnesses from across Mid Sussex. Since then we have cared for thousands of patients and their families. Our staff seek to meet the unique physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs of each and every person who comes to St Peter and St James whether they are patient, family, friend or volunteer.
St Peter and St James is a registered charity and offers services including an in-patient unit, a Specialist Community Team, a Day Hospice, counselling and bereavement services, and complementary therapies. All Hospice services are free of charge to patients and their families. We receive just 13% of our funding from the Government and must raise more than £1 million each year through a variety of fundraising activities. If you would like to find out more about our work please visit our website www.stpeter-stjames.org.uk or contact the Fundraising Department on 01444 471598.
www.squashed-tomato.co.uk/stpeterstjames
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