Children with a life-threatening condition can experience a wide range of difficult emotions due to their treatment, it’s effects, hospital admissions and the isolation from friends and family that this brings. Some children currently supported by Kids Cancer Charity are palliative and are facing the end of their life. The Charity also supports brothers and sisters of children with cancer that face having their routines changed, their family split up through hospitalisation with some members having to stay with relatives. This upheaval takes them away from their usual support networks, carrying with it a lot of worry, feelings of absence and anger at what’s going on for their family unit. Children may be facing the death of their sibling or a parent from cancer or indeed be bereaved and facing considerable loss.

As children and their families come face to face with their situation Kids Cancer Charity are able to offer emotional support through their specialist Therapists, This care is tailored to meet the needs of the child by offering sessions at their centre, at the child’s home, at school or whilst they are in hospital. The Charity works within a non-directive, child centred framework. Offering children a vehicle for expression where they are accepted and understood, the therapeutic interventions are designed to be guided by the child, this way happening spontaneously. The Charity also offers care breaks as a form of therapy to help forge lasting memories for children undergoing treatment at their families to destinations across the UK such as Snowdon, The New Forest, Beach Villages, Disneyland Paris and the US.

We all hope our children have a chance to live happy lives, This donation will help a child facing cancer create some happiness in spite of their condition.