News and Comment

UK children’s palliative care charity, Together for Short Lives, has welcomed NHS England’s decision to ring fence £25 million of NHS funding to support children’s hospices by 2023/24, increasing annually from this year’s baseline of £12 million. This welcome pledge...

Today Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice has announced a proposal to cease offering services from its children’s hospice facility at Grace’s Place in Bury. Forget Me Not is currently consulting with staff, volunteers and families on this proposal. It’s a...

We have welcomed the government’s decision to implement the Child Funeral Fund, relieving bereaved parents of the costs of their child’s burial or cremation. Under the scheme, from 23 July, bereaved parents, guardians or carers will no longer pay the...

Hobbycraft joined forces with Together for Short Lives to take on the challenge of Hadrian’s Wall Walk.

Together for Short Lives' Ambassador Lance Corporal Richard Jones has been sprinkling magic and entertaining young adults and their families at a community group called Inspire! run by The J’s Hospice, part of Havens Hospices. Richard’s visit to the J’s...

Shailza and Daniel Leaver have two beautiful boys just a year apart in age. They smile and giggle and win hearts just like any other 4 and 3 year old but sadly neither Riley nor Stanley is able to sit,...