At the end of April, we celebrated Children’s Hospice Week (26 April – 3 May), organised by national charity Together for Short Lives.  It is the UK’s only charity week for children with life-limiting conditions and the services that support them. The theme this year was ‘be a hero’ so to mark the week, we invited families from our Children’s Services to take part in a super hero themed craft morning.

We were helped out by a group of students from King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls who are taking part in a project for us with Envision. They created hero masks and butterfly paintings with the children and started work on an amazing canvas that will be displayed at Freshwinds once they have added some finishing touches.

While the children were busy getting messy with glitter glue and paint, the parents were given complementary therapy taster sessions by our volunteer therapists. This allowed them such much needed relaxation time and a chance to sample the variety of therapies we have on offer at Freshwinds.

We’d like to give a huge thank you to all the volunteers and staff who kindly gave their time on a Saturday morning to run this successful event. We look forward to holding more events in future hospice weeks.

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