Charity Partner

We are proud to announce our Charity Partner is Julia’s House Dorset and Wiltshire Children’s Hospices.

We have chosen them for the vital work they do for children and their families in most cases during their short lives together.

This page is designed to help raise awareness of this important charity and highlight how we support our charity partner.

Julia’s House is your local children’s hospice, looking after the most seriously ill children in Wiltshire and Dorset.  These children need 24 hour care for their complex and often rare medical conditions, which puts a huge amount of pressure on their families.  Their conditions are often incurable and many are sadly not expected to live beyond early adulthood.

Julia’s House’s dedicated team of nurses, carers, therapists, family support workers and hospice doctors provide a lifeline of care.  They offer clinical, emotional and practical support and essential respite breaks to give exhausted families time out from round-the-clock care, helping to prevent them from reaching breaking point.

Each family supported can tailor the care they receive in whichever way suits them best. Crucially, Julia’s House supports the whole family and not just the seriously ill child – they are there for parents, siblings, grandparents.

• Our support is vital so Julia’s House can provide a lifeline of care to seriously ill local children and their families.
• The charity receives 92 per cent of their funding from the local community.
• Without this public support Julia’s House wouldn’t be able to continue to provide the lifeline of care to the most seriously ill children and their families in Dorset and Wiltshire.

The care provided by Julia’s House children’s hospice has been awarded ‘Outstanding’ following a recent inspection (December 2021) by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest rating to be awarded by the independent regulator of care and social care in England.