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ACORNS
Acorns Children’s Hospice offers short breaks, emergency and end of life care to life limited children and provides support for their families. The term life limited means a child is not expected to reach adulthood as a cure is not possible. For these children, we offer specialist care to provide relief from their symptoms. We have three children’s hospices in Birmingham, the Black Country and the Three Counties. We also provide support to the whole family at home 24 hours a day, seven days a week through our community team. Acorns currently supports 650 families but it is estimated nearly 1700 need our help. In Birmingham alone, Acorns cares for 206 children but there are a further 244 who urgently need our help. Our services are free of charge to children and their families but it costs £450 to provide a day’s nursing care to a child. We urgently need your support to help us fund our care. We cannot change the fact that a child will die but we can care for them. Please help Acorns to support local life limited children to
CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA
Leukaemia is cancer of the blood. It’s not hereditary. You can’t catch it. Yet, alarmingly, leukaemia is the most common childhood cancer. In February 1987, leukaemia claimed the life of fourteen year old Paul O’Gorman. Just nine months later, another devastating blow struck the O’Gorman family when Paul’s sister, Jean, was also killed by cancer. Always a caring boy, Paul had made his parents promise to help other children with leukaemia and, within weeks of his death, they started fundraising. In November 1987, just days after Jean’s death, they met Diana, Princess of Wales. Deeply moved by the double tragedy, she personally helped establish this charity. Paul continues to inspire the work of CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA. What started as a small memorial charity is now the UK’s leading charity dedicated to the conquest of childhood leukaemia through pioneering research, new treatments and the support of leukaemic children and their families. Fifty years ago, leukaemia was a virtual death sentence. Tremendous advances in treatment and care mean that four out of five affected children now survive. However, the incidence of leukaemia has also increased steadily during the past fifty years and the treatments, which include chemotherapy, radiotherapy and bone marrow transplants, can themselves cause severe problems in the young children whose lives they save. Thanks to the generous support of the public, many areas of research and treatment are being investigated and progressed. Teams of researchers funded by CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA are working towards the development of more effective, less punishing treatments which will not only drive up the survival rate still further, but will reduce the risk of serious side-effects. CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA is determined to find out more about the causes of childhood leukaemia and through an annual grants programme, project funding is awarded to researchers around the world investigating why children develop leukaemia. While research is the key to protecting future generations, the charity never forgets about the children who are suffering today and what work can be done to ease the burden on children and families who are struggling through the long months and years of treatment. The Paul O’Gorman Patient Hotel at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital, one of the recently funded projects, provides accommodation for families who are travelling to and from London for outpatient appointments and helps to avoid the difficulties of attending for treatment. With administration costs kept to a minimum, you can be sure that when you support CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA, your money will be put to good use immediately in the fight to save young lives. For more information please visit www.leukaemia.org or telephone 020 7404 0808. Coeliac UK
Coeliac UK is the leading charity working for people with coeliac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis (DH). Our mission is to improve the lives of people living with the condition through support, campaigning and research. Our vision is that the needs of people with coeliac disease and DH are universally recognised and met. We work to achieve this vision by:
Anyone who has been medically diagnosed with coeliac disease can join Coeliac UK and we get about 10,000 new Members each year. We provide a dietetic and food and drink Helpline for people struggling with diagnosis and management of their condition. We have a wide selection of helpful information leaflets and booklets.
Cancer Research UK
Cancer Research UK is the world's leading charity dedicated to research on the causes, treatment and prevention of cancer. We support research into all aspects of cancer through the work of over 4,250 scientists, doctors and nurses. Our vision is: .Together we will beat cancer’. What we do Cancer is common – over 270,000 new cases are diagnosed each year in the UK. At Cancer Research UK we are working hard to improve our understanding of cancer and develop better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat the disease. The work of Cancer Research UK focuses on four main areas:
Cancer Research UK received virtually no government funding, which is why fundraising events are vital. Cancer Research UK is a registered charity; Number 1089464.
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