The Charity - Hope House Children's Hospice

Choosing a charity was actually a lot more difficult than I anticipated. There are a huge number of good causes out there but I decided that a local charity would benefit more from the money I raised than a national charity.

After some searching around for local charities I have decided upon Hope House Children's Hospice

(From their website) -

Hope House Children’s Hospices provides respite, palliative care and terminal nursing for life-limited children.

The organisation runs two hospices – Hope House in Oswestry and Ty Gobaith in Conwy.

Support is also offered in the family home by the Community Care Team. Bereavement support and counselling is available to all family members for as long as it is necessary.

Hope House makes no charge to families, and receives a limited amount of statutory funding – voluntary income is therefore essential to ensure the continuation of the service.

Hope House is a registered charity. The annual running costs of the organisation is £3.5 million, including the cost of running two hospices, our extensive social work services, counselling, our community nursing service and, of course, fundraising and administration. For the next three years the Department of Health has promised an annual sum of £300,000. This is a welcome boost to our funding but in reality it will only fund our work for one month a year and means we continue to rely on the generosity of the general public for the majority of our income.