Really useful links
Helping raise money for your local Hospice!
Hospice Care
ACT
ACT is the UK wide charity working to achieve the best possible quality of life and care for every child and young person who is not expected to reach adulthood.
Department for Work and Pensions
The Department for Work and Pensions is responsible for welfare and pension policy and is a key player in tackling child poverty. It is the biggest public service delivery department in the UK and serves over 20 million customers.
Jessie's Fund
Jessie's Fund is a UK charity helping seriously ill and disabled children by using music for communication and for therapy. We work with children in hospices and in other settings nationwide, providing a wide range of musical instruments and giving the children access to music-making and to music therapy.
http://www.jessiesfund.org.uk/
Pets As Therapy
Pets As Therapy is a national charity founded in 1983. It is unique in that it provides therapeutic visits to hospitals, hospices, nursing and care homes, special needs schools and a variety of other venues by volunteers with their own friendly, temperament tested and vaccinated dogs and cats.
Music in Hospitals
Music in Hospitals (MiH) is a charity whose mission is to improve the quality of life for adults and children with all kinds of illness and disability through the joy and therapeutic benefits of professionally performed live music in hospitals, hospices, day care centres, special needs schools, nursing and residential homes.
http://www.music-in-hospitals.org.uk/
Marie Curie Cancer Care
Marie Curie Cancer Care provide end of life care to terminally ill patients in their own homes, or in one of our nine hospices.
Help the Hospices
We are the leading charity supporting hospice care throughout the UK. If you are a patient, carer or have an interest in hospice and palliative care explore this site for information, support or to get involved.
http://www.helpthehospices.org.uk/
Children and Young People
Child Bereavement Charity
The Child Bereavement Charity (CBC) provides specialised support, information and training to all those affected when a baby or child dies, or when a child is bereaved.
http://www.childbereavement.org.uk/
Winston's Wish
Winston's Wish is the leading childhood bereavement charity and the largest provider of services to bereaved children, young people and their families in the UK.
http://www.winstonswish.org.uk/
The Lighthouse for Learning
The Lighthouse for Learning is the Education Web Site for North East Lincolnshire. The aims of this site are to provide information about the Internet, original education material, links to good educational sites and to celebrate success in Education.
http://www.thelighthouseforeducation.co.uk/
Children Hospice UK
We want the best possible care for children and young people who are not expected to reach adulthood, and for their families.
