We’re dreaming of a “weight” Christmas! 

At Grace House we aim to offer a range of specialist services to support children and young people who have complex disabilities and associated health needs, and their whole family.

This Christmas we want to raise money towards providing Grace House with a set of wheelchair scales. 

Currently, we don’t have a way to weigh a child easily. This means that the weight given to our care team by parents or carers may not be the most accurate or up-to-date information.

This equipment would enable our care team to monitor the weight of a child much more regularly than we can at the moment. 

There are lots of reasons it’s important to know the weight of a child in our care:

- If a child becomes poorly during their stay and we need to seek medical guidance, we need to know an accurate weight so medical professionals can manage their medication

- It helps our staff to use slings or hoists correctly 

- It enables us to assess how effective feeding regimes given by professionals are

We would love you to support us this Christmas with as much or as little as you can give so that we can buy the wheelchair scales we so urgently need.