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Established in 1988, Acorns Children's Hospice Trust is a registered charity offering a network of care for over 500 life limited and life threatened children and young people and providing support for their families across the heart of England. These children and young people are not expected to reach adulthood and require specialist care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Acorns is the only organisation that provides this level of care to these vulnerable youngsters whilst offering a range of support services to the whole family to help them cope at every stage of their child's life and beyond into bereavement.
We provide tailored nursing care for each child; short breaks, emergency and end-of-life care at each of our three hospices:

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Butterwick Hospice at Stockton and Butterwick Hospice at Bishop Auckland are both adult hospices offering a range of services. Butterwick House Children's Hospice serves life limited children and their loved ones across the north east. Please click the link to learn more about either adult or children's services.

Adult Hospices
Butterwick Hospice provides compassionate care free of charge to people over the age of 18 and their loved ones from its Hospices in Stockton on Tees and Bishop Auckland.

The Children's Hospice
Butterwick House Children's Hospice provides day, respite and end of life care, family support, complementary therapies and bereavement care to families from Teesside, County Durham, North Yorkshire and Wearside.

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CHASE supports families in their own homes and communities and at our children’s hospice, Christopher’s. Across South West London, Surrey and Sussex, CHASE supports families with children and teenagers not expected to reach their 19th birthday.

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Children’s Hospice South West now has a chain of children’s hospices covering Cornwall, Plymouth, Torbay, Devon, Somerset, North Somerset, Bristol, Bath & North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

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Children’s Hospices UK is the national charity that gives voice and support to all children’s hospice services. Our vision is for every child and young person who is not expected to reach adulthood - and their family - to have awareness of, and access to, the highest standards of care and support close to or in the home. Our work includes:

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EACH supports families and cares for children and young people with life-threatening conditions across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. We provide care and support wherever the family wishes – in families’ own homes, in hospital or at one of our hospices in Ipswich, Milton and Quidenham.

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Julia's House is Dorset's only hospice dedicated to children with life-limiting conditions. The majority of the children we care for are unlikely to live beyond the age of 18.

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Keech Hospice Care cares for adults living in Luton and South Bedfordshire and children from across Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Milton Keynes.
Our aim is to help patients enjoy the highest quality of life, while providing vital support for their family and friends throughout their loved one's illness and in their bereavement.
All of the charity's services are offered free of charge, every single day of the year. This is all made possible because of the generous support of the local community. Thank you.

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Naomi House provides support to children and young adults, with life-limiting conditions, and their families from across the Central South.
The charity provides care to families living in communities across the seven counties of Berkshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Surrey, West Sussex and Wiltshire.

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The majority of care Teesside Hospice offers to patients, families and carers focuses upon pain and symptom control, but we also provides respite admissions. Our range of care services include:
10 beds for Inpatient Care
Edward & Glenis Guy day care centre based at Teesside Hospice Care Foundation facilitating 16 guests per day
Satellite day care centre every Friday within East Cleveland Hospital, Brotton
Adult Bereavement Counselling Services
Children’s and Young Adults' 'Forget-Me-Not' Bereavement Counselling Service
Regular Outpatient Clinics
Lymphoedema Clinics
Home & Hospital visits
Working in partnership with specialist Nurses

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The Children's Trust, Tadworth provides care, education, therapy and rehabilitation to children with multiple disabilities, complex health needs and acquired brain injury

Our services include the UK's largest paediatric brain injury rehabilitation centre, support in the community for children and young people with acquired brain injury (ABI), The School for Profound Education for pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD), short breaks, transitional, palliative and long-term nursing care.

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Shooting Star offers a range of care services for children and young people with life-limiting conditions and their families. These can take place in the family home, in the community and at Shooting Star House, the purpose-built facility based in Hampton, Middlesex.

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Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Foundation is a children's charity raising funds to improve the quality of life for children in hospitals and hospices throughout the UK. Since our beginnings in 2003 we have helped 48 hospitals and hospices and given out grants totalling over £1 million!
Here at the Foundation we believe every child has the right to a fun, carefree, happy childhood; yet everyday over 26,000 children are treated in hospitals and hospices in the UK.
The Foundation funds projects that will ensure that whilst in hospital and hospice care, children can still play, socialise and recuperate from treatment in a child friendly environment. Our innovative rage of funding projects ensures this, these include: arts, music and play therapy programmes; sensory equipment and facilities; respite care; state of the art equipment and parent accommodation.

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Zoë's Place is a home from home for babies who have life limiting or terminal illnesses, special and complex needs to varying degrees.

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Zoë’s Place offers palliative respite and terminal care for children up to the age of 5 years with complex and life limiting illnesses. Our team of trained Children’s Nurses, Senior Care Assistants, NNEB’s and Care Assistants provide 24 hour one to one care in a home from home environment

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